Baby Stuff, Part XIV

Adam and I are still having a very uneventful summer ... Adam is spending about ten hours a day preparing himself for the Texas Bar on the last three days of July. I just submitted the final grades for my summer class and am finally getting back to my dissertation. Little Charlotte was measuring a full week ahead of schedule (32 1/2 weeks instead of 31 1/2 weeks) at our doctor's appointment today, which may mean that her big debut is coming sooner than we thought ... or maybe just that Mommy's been hitting the ice cream a little too hard lately!

Despite the tedium of daily study, Adam and I manage to distract ourselves with baby equipment. We have been at Babys-R-Us just about every Saturday this month picking up various items. But "Baby Christmas" came when the UPS man showed up one morning not too long ago with both Peanut's new Bugaboo Bee stroller and her car seat (a gift from Grammy in Utah) at the same time. We managed to waste several hours playing with them!

Do I look maternal pushing Peanut's new stroller around our living room? I wanted to put a watermelon in it and take it out for a walk but Adam was too embarrassed to let me. (There is a famous family story about my aunt taking a human skull out for a walk in a stroller and scaring the bejesus out of an old lady, which I think would be much worse.)
Hope this thing holds up well under spit-up, snacks, and baby poopy! We'll see. And thanks again, Grammy, for investing in Little Charlotte's car seat. We'll remind her that you are responsible for her having it every time we strap her into it and she starts wailing!