This is the mattress to our forthcoming crib my mom-in-law has decided is what she would like to contribute.  We put it in the doorway to the office and it has served as a sobering reminder of the reality of some future events.  Nothing says "A baby's comin!" like a tiny mattress =)

New Years Eve behind the house.  I took this picture for Savannah to send her in a letter.  This is the most snow they have had in Wisconsin in the last 100 years...figures.  But very rarely do I actually have to go outside and actually this day was no too bad temperature-wise.  

Some random gifts from friends and family above and below.  If you don't think that this is the cutest things you've ever seen somethings wrong.  There's little cows on the feet for crying out loud!

Over the course of my absorbing any and all information I can about things babies need I have learned that there are certain types of plastics used to make bottles and pacifiers that contain toxic chemicals that may leach into the milk or spit.  I have also learned that America doesn't remember a time when you simply just had a baby and whatever you happened to knit yourself or a nice neighbor made for you, and that adequate human beings did actually develop without the list of baby necessities, contraptions, accessories, and essential educational watchamagadgets that Baby's 'R' Us feels a need to send you out with a list of.