Babies r' us

We took our first trip to babies r us!  This was a  trip I have been avoiding and didn't feel ready for until now.  The shear quantity of stuff and multiple different brands of the same stuff is enough to send a new moms head spinning.  So I prepared myself by saying this was going to be our test run.  No real shopping or really looking at one particular thing; more like a stake-out.  Just to get the lay of the land and find our comfort zone.  It was a good trip and a necessary one for us both.  I did not even venture close to the baby bottle section.  My goodness there must have been 500 bottles against that wall with 500 different types of nipples...nope, not there yet.  We looked at baby monitors, they were only about 5 to choose from, we can handle that.  Although seems like a baby monitor is something you could buy second-hand; which Mike quickly pointed out and have to agree with.  After all, how long do parents really keep these things??  We looked at bathtubs.  Only 4 to choose from there, we can handle that too.  Mike wasn't really on-board with the baby bathtub idea...I guess he has to see it in action.  We briefly looked at strollers and car seats but that's a whole trip in its' self.  Different sizes, shapes, colors but all look pretty much the same, ugly.  Not a one cool looking car seats...I guess that's not the point and safety is but why can't we have both??  The strollers have come a little further in the looks department...there were a couple good looking ones.  We looked at their nursery furniture and was pleasantly surprised.  They had a really nice selection with what seemed good quality and for a reasonable price.  Nothing that fit the bill exactly for us but stuff that we could make work.  The baby's room is very small so finding just the right furniture is imperative.  We're first going to exhaust Craigs List for second hand furniture and if need-be buy new.  So far, we have found lots of great postings for baby furniture so we're hopeful we'll find something.  So that's about all we looked at babies r us.  We left unscathed and feeling positive about our stake-out.  
     Something I'll mention quickly but won't go into in depth.  It's just too disgusting of a topic to go into on a blog.  This poor baby had to endure food poisoning thursday night.  Ohh and me too.  We were up all night with severe forms of the typical symptoms of food poising.  I'm hoping it was the grand finale to this first trimester sickness!