Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Crash Finally Moves for the Camera

So I've been trying for quite a while to get a good video clip of Crash moving Mommy's belly using the camera built into my MacBook. However, everytime you go to shoot a video, the application counts down 3-2-1 before it starts recording. This countdown is accompanied by beeps for each number. Well Crash would hear that + just completely stop moving by the time it got down to 1. Last night we (well Katie) got the idea to mute it so that Crash wouldn't hear it. Brilliant! So we finally got a good clip of Katie's belly dancing. Enjoy!

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Car Seat Problems...

Well, we sure know how to pick them. We registered for our first car seat through a company named Combi. A very fun car seat called "Wasabi Shuttle" (you can imagine how fun that must be) that fits perfectly into the stroller we wanted, and still want for Crash. The day before my mom went to the store to buy the car seat for us, the car seat was recalled. (Thanks to Babyland for keeping track of that information for us on everything we've registered for and purchased separately. Excellent customer service!) So we went back into Babyland to pick our next carseat, and we found another great option! It's not gender specific, it's not too cheesy for our tastes, it fits nicely into the Combi Naked Stroller (a stroller frame that is made to hold the infant car seat) and we went up to the counter to purchase the car seat. Well, they found out that they were out of stock. But said that they should be receiving more on their next shipment from Graco, the company that makes the new car seat that we picked. This last week I called Babyland to see if we could get a status on the shipping of the carseat, and it turns out that Graco recently changed their computer system, or something like that, and all Graco shipments, to ALL stores that carry Graco, are receiving their shipments several weeks late. We called around to other stores that sell Graco to see if anyone else might have it in stock, and everyone is down to 1 style/option of car seat! So, Graco told Babyland that they are going to ship the car seat by Tuesday this week, which means it may be in the store for us to pick up by the end of this week, or sometime next week. But, it seems that we could go into labor anytime between now and 2.5 weeks from now! Ack! We're checking other options in the meanwhile, and just really hoping that the car seat comes in quickly and the baby after that. But not too much after that, I'm really ready to have this child in my arms instead of in my belly. Yay!