It's a Boy! But now what? The instinctive response I seem to get from everyone when you tell them that you know the sex of your baby seems to be,"that's great, now you can decorate the baby room!"
It seemed like it would be an easy task when it was all in theory....Christine and I must have looked at a thousand pictures of baby rooms, each of us certain of what we liked.....now its crunch time and we have not a clue!
Do we need a baby room consultant? I mean it seems that there are consultants for everything these days, why not someone to come into our house to show us some spreadsheets and charts and graphs all in a nice PowerPoint presentation. Do they have the stats on what will affect my boy's life? If I decorate the room with a sports theme, will I have a little athlete, or if I put too many cuddly animals in there will he be in the band? It is so much easier to make decisions at work when you are playing with house money and these crazy consultants are showing you every statistic man has ever thought of to prove their point.
But this is "my house" money and these are the first decisions of my child's life....this is serious shit and I am freaking out a little bit thinking about it. Do I put in a bunch of impressionist paintings, pump in classical music and hope that my boy can appreciate the arts? Do I let the boy listen to classic rock from day one so that he appreciates Zeppelin and AC/DC the way his dad does?
So many decisions....color, decorations, furniture, theme.....it really is a bit overwhelming. The only good thing is that there is no shortage of advice from friends and family....I guess they are my consultants....just without the charts and graphs! This will all be fun, I know it will. The kind folks and Disney, Baby Einstein, etc. have already done so much of the legwork for us...HAH!
Just wait till we start the Name game!
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