The Hyde's: Week 21 & 22: Babymoon!

Week 21:

Honestly, nothing much to update here. We are hard at work in the baby nursery, it's coming together and loving how it's looking. Only thing left to install is the chandelier, which should be coming soon. Rest of the work is just details, all other major things are done in the room, yippee!

Week 22 and BABYMOON!

This week we went on our babymoon and celebrated our 4 year anniversary in Chicago. Great weekend, lots and lots of shopping. So much shopping I literally shopped until I dropped. 6-7 straight hours a day. We started at the outlet in Aurora. I have surprisingly held off on buying baby clothes until this week. We started at Baby Gap and love love love Gap's baby clothes! Aaron was awesome, helping me pick out clothes and find sizes, it was fun! By the time we got to the 5th baby store though, Aaron had lost interest, it came to him following behind me, while I held up things for his approval and I got the nod most of the time, not as helpful as he was at the first store, but I get it, he's a male and doesn't have the attention span for picking out baby clothes as I do.

I'm picky when it comes to what my baby girl is going to be wearing. I don't want a bunch of animals and crazy colors, I want our baby girl to look like a young adult. Animals are okay on pjs, that's it though. I don't want smiling bears, unicorns, rainbows or sparkles. Nor dinosaurs or stuff that says "I love my mommy" or "daddy" on it. Or words that say "too cute" on it either. Nor do I like colored pant suits. Plaid, patterns, pea coats, woven boots, button up shirts, tunics, jeggings/leggings are all good though. Basically anything at Baby Gap I love. Or just think of it this way, would I wear that? If the answer is no that I would look like an idiot as an adult wearing that outfit, then my baby doesn't want to wear it either. Maybe I'll loosen up in this area but right now I'm pretty particular and Aaron is on the same page as me and agrees 100%.

We then headed to our favorite comedy club Second City and after stood in line at our favorite pizza place, Gino's East. Gino's East always has a huge line, out the door and goes down the alley, but standing outside in line for 45 minutes in the freezing cold was well worth the wait.

We stayed at the Hyatt Regency right off of Michigan Ave. I've stayed at this hotel before and it's pretty darn nice and would recommend it. The only complaint I had was at 3:30 in the morning, there were some girls giggling in the hallway that woke me up. Okay, so I haven't been sleeping too well in general at all so that really annoyed me to hear giggling girls in the hallway. I get it, it's 3:30 am, the bars are just closing and I've been that giggling girl before too. But I really wanted to open the door and say "GIRLS!" and give them a dirty look but I didn't. They were only out there for about 5 minutes so instead of showing my age, I just let it go and remembered that I was a 21 yr old giggling girl leaving the bars at 3:30 am at one time in my life too. Boy that moment made me feel old!

The next day we hit Michigan Ave hard. I was very disappointed in the lack of maternity clothes options. Macy's and Nordstorms didn't have a maternity department, that shocked me. I went to Pea in the Pod and loved that store, walked away with a few items but not much since it was pretty pricey. Aaron wanted to hit a suit shop he had read about in his GQ Magazine. I ended up sitting in a suit shop for 2 hours waiting for him, and I did it without saying a peep about how I was ready to go and bored to tears because my husband is a trooper when it comes to shopping with me so I had to suck it up and let him have his moment.

That night, we celebrated our anniversary with dinner at Harry Carry's with some yummy Italian food.

The next day we hit another Outlet mall and IKEA and headed home. Great Babymoon/Anniversary trip. We love visiting Chicago. Here are some pictures from our weekend.