Mail surprises, music, and mini-mommy-meltdown

Most of the time, checking the mail is rather uneventful.  Junk mail, advertisements, bills, you know how it goes...But this weekend, I found a surprise in my mailbox.  Thank you, Aunt Christy for the adorable little boy outfits!  Perfect for our sports-loving family.  And they'll be just in time for baseball and football season this summer and fall.

We were also able to enjoy a night out to celebrate Valentine's Day early.  We had a great night of karaoke, and then went to see the "Piano Man," a musical tribute to Billy Joel and Elton John.  The man who played and sang was from Manchester England, and he did a fantastic job singing just like Sir Elton himself.  The band was also super awesome.  He even had his wife and son up there with him playing percussion and doing backup vocals.  It was a great night, and little baby boy Rinella enjoyed all the great music.

Sunday, I thought I'd go and look into starting a baby registry.  It sounded like a good idea.  But then, I really had no idea how overwhelming that could be (could some of my sisters and girlfriends please come out here and save me?!)What started as an "I'm just gonna go and look" became 4 hours of scouring the store and looking around at 700 different kinds of car seats, strollers, swings, monitors and such--how does one even know where to begin?  And who knew that someone so little could need so much stuff.  I totally hit the peak of my confusion when I came to the bottles and breastfeeding stuff.  Slow flow, medium flow, fast flow nipples, nipple shields (???), sterilize this, store that...it became a bluuuuuurrrr and I had to call my reinforcements to make sense of it all.  Luckily, after a couple of phone calls, I got some really good advice.  (Thanks Christy and Lisa. :)

Special thanks to Sue for going with me to investigate all this baby gear.
And special thanks to Jadyn Olivia for reminding me to register for kitchen cabinet locks.   

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone!  Kisses and hugs!