Week 18: Baby Box, Excitement for Ultrasound

I took the day off yesterday to just relax after Yosemite and run a few errands.  I'm so glad I chose to do that-I felt productive doing all our laundry, tidying up and getting groceries.  For some reason I absolutely love buying groceries-maybe it's the motherly instincts kicking up inside of me, although I have always been fond of it.

After grocery shopping, it was time to let my creative juices flow, even if it was sort of a mundane task.  Missy the super sister-in-law brought us so many baby items when we met up at Yosemite, but I don't have anywhere to store it all.  So I decided to just decorate an empty cardboard box I had in my closet and store everything in there.  I said mundane because I decided to break out my scrapbook paper, cut out different sized circles and glue them on.  It really took half a day, but here is the finished product:

 I tried picking gender-neutral colors, and the lighting doesn't do the colors much justice, but I thought the color scheme was cute.

I forgot to take a photo of the awesome music mobile Missy made, but here are a few samples of her baby presents that she made herself:

Just a few of the many hats she crocheted, so adorable!

Two out of many onesies she sewed!

She also gave us a baby monitor she bought when she was trying to get her cat out of a crawl space in her apartment.  : )

Oh, and when we were visiting Washington a few weekends ago, the mother-in-law bought our baby's first outfit, and I couldn't stop swooning over it-went into the box:

Sulley from Monster's Inc!

And I forgot to stick baby's first 'teddy bear' into the box, as it is sitting high on our bookshelf...but we found this beauty at Target while shopping for camping supplies last week.  It was on sale, and I remember seeing one like it when we were on our Honeymoon in Disney World (I think it cost twice as much):

Yes, it's Chewbacca.  And when you squeeze it, he makes his typical noise.  Hope this doesn't scare the baby.

I'm really antsy for this day to go by; second ultrasound is this afternoon, and I should be able to find out the sex of our baby!  Hubby is working unfortunately (and fortunately, need all the $ we can get), so I'll be surprising him when I get home.  I picked up these books last night and I'll be giving him one of them to let him know what we're having:

No, we are not obsessed with Star Wars or Monster's Inc, but we are geeks.  I just thought this would be a really cute way to surprise the hubby.  I'll be posting pictures of our outcome tomorrow, stay tuned!