I Suck At Registering

following the celebration of nana's 86th birthday on saturday, karen and i figured we'd start registering for baby stuff.

in case you are curious, i suck at registering.

who knew there would be so many things required for babies? i am so going to be that awful dad who knows nothing about raising a child. i can't wait to change my first diaper.

anyway, karen has been doing some research on baby products. she bought a consumer reports book about baby products and has been reading it quite religiously of late. i, on the other hand... not so much with the reading. although, in my defense, i have been working on the house and getting the baby's room done (right now, the project involves molding around the windows).

so needless to say, i felt ill prepared when we decided to go registering for baby stuff this past saturday. lucky for me, however, we had a secret weapon... my favorite sister-in-law (janine).

i must say... i love creating a baby registry with janine. not only do i get good advice from a mother of two... i get to indulge and zap crazy things with the baby registry scanner that the store gives you. there was this product (a nursery center) that had a thing for an ipod... which i thought was cool. based on that ipod functionality alone, i wanted to add the item to the registry. of course, karen... being the more practical one... wanted to check everything else first to make sure the product was one of the consumer reports better products. in the end, and with the help of janine... the item made the registry. thanks janine!

anyway, we didn't finish registering for items. there was just too many things to look at. but, at least we started. yay! oh, for anyone curious... we registered at babies 'r us. the registry number is 94809004. we were also planning on registering at target too, to give people options. hopefully janine can accompany us on the target excursion as well...