After semi-recovering from my cold (one which John now has), we hit up two birthday parties yesterday. First, Carina Mendeck turned the ripe old age of 2 and we went to the party which, at that age, still mostly involves adults. But good times, I think it is something of a preview of things to come. Afterwards, I headed out to celebrate Kim F's birthday with the girls and had a great time. No complaints to make cheese fondue and play cards. It was just great to relax with the poker girls again since we don't seem to get to this nearly as often anymore.
Today, John and I went and did our baby registry. OMG!! We were both completely exhausted after that. I think it was way harder then a wedding registry and we still ended up leaving with several big items yet to be decided through Internet research. Things like car seats we don't think are best decided by the fabric colors in the store, call us crazy. I came home and finished off the research just to get it done (for the most part).
But I will say the most annoying part of the trip was in the selection of rubber duckies. There were 3 packs of duckies, one 'girl' set with pink accents and flower crap and the other 'boy' set was police, fire, and medical duckies. Ummm... really, so even the rubber duckies are sexist? It wasn't enough for girls to get pink flowers and boys to get sports stuff in baby gear we've moved on to career choices already? Needless to say, we registered for the "boy" duckies because they are just as good regardless of what we have. I have a feeling this is not the first time I'll run into this.
12 years ago
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Ha ha ha.. my mom spent a lot of time tryng really hard to break my love of Jem dolls, my little pony, and barbie... by buying me books from the feminist press - thus I ended up with "I want to be a firewoman", "Practical Princess and other modern fair tales" (that one includes a story where a princess sets out to rescue her prince, and he turns out to be a spoiled selfish jerk, so she marries the so-called evil wizard instead who turned out ot be not really evil), and "Free to be you and me". Guess I turned out ok. Go to Bath Junkie for an awesome selection of rubber ducks. they even have a KISS and A-Team set!
I would KILL for a B.A. Barakas duckie...maybe a nice Merdock or Hannibal. The A-Team rocks. Thanks for the tip.
I'm with John, we are definately going to go find the A-Team duckies. Thanks!
Yeah, sometimes it's hard to get anything without some sort of gender specific fabric on it. Like Meg was saying about the bubble mower this weekend - there were pink and "normal" options.
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