Do you really want to know how ready and prepared I am for the baby to arrive? If not, please visit www.thestatmanspeaks.com — just a little self-promotion for myself. If so, keep on reading!!!
I have had the car seat base installed in my car for several weeks. I also have a small mirror on the headrest so I can see the baby while I am driving. I just have to take off the protective plastic wrap and rotate it so the model name is not upside down. I know it’s not a big deal; it’s just annoying when I look at it. I can’t wait to have hairless monkey boy in my car and be able to talk to him and see his face. Oh, my trunk is full of stuff for the hospital.
Our two strollers (which we have also had for several weeks) have been moved from an upstairs closet to downstairs for usage. One even has a cabbage patch kid in it. We are trying to get the cat used to somebody else in the house, although he is smart and knows it isn’t real and just ignores it.
The crib and dresser in the baby’s room were assembled in February. The dresser drawers have had clothes in it as soon as that last drawer was inserted. I have more baby clothes stashed in my closet as he grows. There is a diaper changing station on top of the dresser that is ready for poo and pee! We have shelves above the dresser with diapers and baby wipes.
The baby sleeper was also taken out of that same upstairs closet and moved to our bedroom. Since we have a cat and he has to make the whole house smell like his butt, we had to cover the crib and baby sleeper with mosquito netting. He has gotten in the crib a few times, but Nina yelled at him. But, he has only smelled both since the netting was put on.
Something that was extremely necessary was diaper pails and I got them last week. I don’t think I would be comfortable storing baby diapers in a plastic bag and hanging it on a doorknob till the following morning like we do with the cat. The cat pee and poo isn’t stinky — it’s his vomit that is gross!!
My wife has packed diaper boxes for our cars and for the downstairs. They have all the extra supplies needed for the baby when we are out. Yes, she is a smart woman to think of that. All I want to add to them is a spare t-shirt for me in case I get peed, pooed, or vomited on.
Yes, we are going to have a diaper bag with us (at all times) and that bag is hanging in the baby’s room. Next to that diaper bag is a baby born which allows us to carry the baby hands free; that is great for us so we can text and talk on the phone!! Still in boxes in the baby storage closet is stuff that we don’t need quite yet.
The baby monitoring camera (with 2 way audio) is setup and the cool thing is that it is wireless. It’s very easy to move and spy on my wife (I mean the baby).
One thing new parents probably don’t think about is what they will eat after the baby arrives at home? Nina has us covered for this as our freezer (and this isn’t a refrigerator freezer, it is a Sears’s medium sized chest freezer) is full of food purchased from HEB (our local grocery store), Costco, and Trader Joes along with lots of food that Nina made for this occasion. I can’t wait to freezer dive for food!! If the food she made is acceptable to our standards of eating (which they should be), she will continue to make food and freeze it for future use.
I am such a good husband that I never complain to her about washing dishes. Only once I complained silently and that was because I got home around 11pm and I was starving and very tired, but the sink was full of dirty dishes and the dishwasher was full of clean dishes. I didn’t even feel up to tackling it so I went to bed hungry. Sometimes I laugh at how many dishes Nina uses when she cooks and I have seen her use all the pots (that was actually a few weeks ago when she was cooking stuff to freeze).
I have said this before, but there isn’t anything better than coming home from a long day at work and having dinner waiting for me. Cleaning the kitchen is the least I can do for her and it is actually quick
Today, every time I see a text from my wife, I look immediately but it is just pictures of the cat or herself (to show me she is indeed alive at home) or stupid messages of nonsense. A real life example of a Nina text from 12:08 on 04/28/2016: she had a dream I was being deployed on 4/30 and we didn’t know how long…3, 6, or 8 months. She was sad. I am not going to analyze her dream because I am not a doctor. Good news, I am only being deployed to be a Dad and husband. I am not going anywhere without her. I always joke around that if we ever get tired of each other and want to move on alone, that she has to come with me along with the baby and Franklin cat — as part of the settlement!!! I really really really like my wife!!! One year for our anniversary, she printed out a bunch of e-mails we exchanged (I hope she doesn’t try to blackmail me later when I run for public office) — because paper was that years gift. It was one of the best gifts she has ever gotten me and when I reread them, I had a lot of laugh out loud moments.
My phone at work has caller ID, so if she calls me, I will know it’s her and not a customer who is looking for money from 1985. If it does happen while I am at work, I need like 10 minutes to shut down shop for a few weeks. I already have an out of office email signature completed and I am pretty sure that any work I haven’t been able to process my team will step and up and do it for me. If I am home, the out of office signature will be shredded because I am not going to come in to change that.
Nina and I and the baby may make an appearance at my work before I am scheduled to make my return. The three of us will have to do some test runs before that can happen. One of those runs will be a doctor’s visit for the baby shortly after he is born and another will be a dentist’s visit for us. I know that once we do it, it will become a very easy routine. Taking him somewhere alone; now that will be another blog!!
We have known the baby’s name for several months and we won’t divulge it until he is born. You can tickle me to death and I still won’t say it!!! I am a trained Marksmen and I report to Nina. It is really funny because the grandparents are so nosy and keep asking us or telling us what they think the name will be. Keep on guessing?
I have had the car seat base installed in my car for several weeks. I also have a small mirror on the headrest so I can see the baby while I am driving. I just have to take off the protective plastic wrap and rotate it so the model name is not upside down. I know it’s not a big deal; it’s just annoying when I look at it. I can’t wait to have hairless monkey boy in my car and be able to talk to him and see his face. Oh, my trunk is full of stuff for the hospital.
Our two strollers (which we have also had for several weeks) have been moved from an upstairs closet to downstairs for usage. One even has a cabbage patch kid in it. We are trying to get the cat used to somebody else in the house, although he is smart and knows it isn’t real and just ignores it.
The crib and dresser in the baby’s room were assembled in February. The dresser drawers have had clothes in it as soon as that last drawer was inserted. I have more baby clothes stashed in my closet as he grows. There is a diaper changing station on top of the dresser that is ready for poo and pee! We have shelves above the dresser with diapers and baby wipes.
The baby sleeper was also taken out of that same upstairs closet and moved to our bedroom. Since we have a cat and he has to make the whole house smell like his butt, we had to cover the crib and baby sleeper with mosquito netting. He has gotten in the crib a few times, but Nina yelled at him. But, he has only smelled both since the netting was put on.
Something that was extremely necessary was diaper pails and I got them last week. I don’t think I would be comfortable storing baby diapers in a plastic bag and hanging it on a doorknob till the following morning like we do with the cat. The cat pee and poo isn’t stinky — it’s his vomit that is gross!!
My wife has packed diaper boxes for our cars and for the downstairs. They have all the extra supplies needed for the baby when we are out. Yes, she is a smart woman to think of that. All I want to add to them is a spare t-shirt for me in case I get peed, pooed, or vomited on.
Yes, we are going to have a diaper bag with us (at all times) and that bag is hanging in the baby’s room. Next to that diaper bag is a baby born which allows us to carry the baby hands free; that is great for us so we can text and talk on the phone!! Still in boxes in the baby storage closet is stuff that we don’t need quite yet.
The baby monitoring camera (with 2 way audio) is setup and the cool thing is that it is wireless. It’s very easy to move and spy on my wife (I mean the baby).
One thing new parents probably don’t think about is what they will eat after the baby arrives at home? Nina has us covered for this as our freezer (and this isn’t a refrigerator freezer, it is a Sears’s medium sized chest freezer) is full of food purchased from HEB (our local grocery store), Costco, and Trader Joes along with lots of food that Nina made for this occasion. I can’t wait to freezer dive for food!! If the food she made is acceptable to our standards of eating (which they should be), she will continue to make food and freeze it for future use.
I am such a good husband that I never complain to her about washing dishes. Only once I complained silently and that was because I got home around 11pm and I was starving and very tired, but the sink was full of dirty dishes and the dishwasher was full of clean dishes. I didn’t even feel up to tackling it so I went to bed hungry. Sometimes I laugh at how many dishes Nina uses when she cooks and I have seen her use all the pots (that was actually a few weeks ago when she was cooking stuff to freeze).
I have said this before, but there isn’t anything better than coming home from a long day at work and having dinner waiting for me. Cleaning the kitchen is the least I can do for her and it is actually quick
Today, every time I see a text from my wife, I look immediately but it is just pictures of the cat or herself (to show me she is indeed alive at home) or stupid messages of nonsense. A real life example of a Nina text from 12:08 on 04/28/2016: she had a dream I was being deployed on 4/30 and we didn’t know how long…3, 6, or 8 months. She was sad. I am not going to analyze her dream because I am not a doctor. Good news, I am only being deployed to be a Dad and husband. I am not going anywhere without her. I always joke around that if we ever get tired of each other and want to move on alone, that she has to come with me along with the baby and Franklin cat — as part of the settlement!!! I really really really like my wife!!! One year for our anniversary, she printed out a bunch of e-mails we exchanged (I hope she doesn’t try to blackmail me later when I run for public office) — because paper was that years gift. It was one of the best gifts she has ever gotten me and when I reread them, I had a lot of laugh out loud moments.
My phone at work has caller ID, so if she calls me, I will know it’s her and not a customer who is looking for money from 1985. If it does happen while I am at work, I need like 10 minutes to shut down shop for a few weeks. I already have an out of office email signature completed and I am pretty sure that any work I haven’t been able to process my team will step and up and do it for me. If I am home, the out of office signature will be shredded because I am not going to come in to change that.
Nina and I and the baby may make an appearance at my work before I am scheduled to make my return. The three of us will have to do some test runs before that can happen. One of those runs will be a doctor’s visit for the baby shortly after he is born and another will be a dentist’s visit for us. I know that once we do it, it will become a very easy routine. Taking him somewhere alone; now that will be another blog!!
We have known the baby’s name for several months and we won’t divulge it until he is born. You can tickle me to death and I still won’t say it!!! I am a trained Marksmen and I report to Nina. It is really funny because the grandparents are so nosy and keep asking us or telling us what they think the name will be. Keep on guessing?
