January 26, 2005

Winnie the Bib

No, I’m not going to post a picture of every single thing I get for the baby. Probably. But come on, this is frickin’ adorable!

Moving on. Do you want to know the absolute best part about telling people we are pregnant? It wasn’t telling our parents, although that was a lot of fun. It wasn’t telling my brother or our aunts or our grandparents or any of our friends. The absolute best part about finally telling was telling our cleaning lady. Stay with me here, I can explain. We use the same cleaning lady as Chris’s parents and there was every chance that she would accidentally say something to Chris’s mother. Do you have any idea how hard it is to hide a pregnancy from your cleaning lady? On the days she came, I spent 20 minutes in the morning running around the house hiding things. Picture from the sonogram on the fridge? Stick it between the pages of a cookbook. Prenatal vitamins on the counter? Hide them inside my winter boots. Baby books covering the house? Put them in the tub in the bathroom in the basement, she never cleans that anyway.

She came last week, and I left everything just where it was. Turns out, the next time she went to my in-laws’ she asked if they knew the news. I had been thinking that I had a very observant cleaning lady, since I didn’t talk to her last week, and that she must have seen the sonogram on the fridge and put two and two together. However, I just realized that my small (so far) collection of baby clothes is currently hanging in the closet directly above the vacuum cleaner. That was probably pretty hard to miss.

Posted by Beth at January 26, 2005 02:24 PM
Comments

The bib is a adorable, but you are more so!

Posted by: Amber at January 26, 2005 02:41 PM

How cute!

Says me. The S.O.B.

Posted by: ben at January 26, 2005 03:12 PM

that is so sweet...too bad in a years time it will be covered with all kinds of goopy stuff like creamed spinich and purraed squash...although I'm sure Bean will enjoy it..hehe

You mean you haven't hung the "I Having A Baby" flag in front of the house yet...cuz I assumed that's what would have givin it away...:)

Posted by: Casey at January 26, 2005 03:14 PM

Ha-- have the baby clothes been in the closet with the vacuum cleaner long?

Posted by: Jenorama at January 26, 2005 03:47 PM

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Do my eyes deceive me? Is that bib reversible? Impressive. You can stain both sides. Double the fun.

Oh yeah, beware of the sweet potatoes. They are like Sharpies.
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Posted by: naturalbornbrunette at January 26, 2005 04:03 PM

I guess the cleaning ladies of the world know a lot more than we give them credit for. I know ours knows every Christmas present I buy. I leave them out on a bed in the guest room.

Posted by: cassie-b at January 26, 2005 04:08 PM

Haha :) Very cute thingie. We call it a "slabber" or "slabbertje" :)

Posted by: Sweety at January 26, 2005 04:18 PM

Oh so cute!!!

Posted by: Nina at January 26, 2005 05:04 PM

She sounds like my hairdresser, who also cuts a few friends hair, if you didn't know you will soon enough.

Posted by: aussiemama at January 26, 2005 06:30 PM

Cute bib! You'll need lots of Oxyclean for that.

Posted by: Kelley at January 26, 2005 07:27 PM

Cleaning ladies rule. :)

So do you. More cuteness! We want it!

Posted by: alektra at January 26, 2005 09:19 PM

I'm sure Lima Bean will love the bib. I mean, it's Pooh, what's not to love. :)

Posted by: Southern Chaos at January 26, 2005 09:48 PM

I'm just going to add the requisite - "Awwwww!"

Posted by: Jenny at January 26, 2005 10:06 PM

Omigosh the ears! They are the cutest thing EVAH!

Posted by: Heather at January 27, 2005 04:21 AM

Ohhhh. They didn't have such cute things when Kel was a baby. Really they didn't.

Posted by: Keri at January 27, 2005 06:12 AM

The baby clothes will be the thing that puts us in the poor house whenever we have kids. I walk through Target and pine for a little girl to dress up because there are just so many damn cute outfits!!! Not the best reason to have a baby, but a good one! LOL

Posted by: Kristi at January 27, 2005 09:38 AM

I think I have the outfit that matches this. It's SO DAMN CUTE! The feet have pooh ears...seriously, so CUTE.

Shaunta

Posted by: Shaunta at January 27, 2005 12:13 PM

OK that bib is too freaking cute for words!

Posted by: amy at January 27, 2005 01:32 PM