Katie & Justin

A couple of weeks ago my friend Lisa sent me a text that made me chuckle during work, and I didn’t want to forget to include it here.

It was a picture of the Nose Frida “Snot Sucker” — a nasal aspirator where one end goes in to baby’s nose and the other end? Your mouth!

Yep, that’s right — apparently you suck the boogers right out of them. And this was an item I did, in fact, put on my registry.

“Ya know you are ready to be a mom when you ask for one of these!!” Lisa wrote.

I laughed, thinking how weird that must have looked on my wish list.

“So true!” I said.

But then I confessed…

“Although truthfully I am totally disgusted haha”

In fact, the first time my mom, Emily and I went out shopping for baby stuff we came across this and I picked it up off the shelf in disbelief.

“Is this for real?!?!?!?!”

Emily, I’m sure, was cringing then and would still be now if she saw it again.

I had a change of heart, however, thanks to my hairdresser, who had a baby girl about a year ago and was giving me lots of recommendations on her favorite baby products — while also chopping off probably eight inches of my hair (time for the mom-do!)

She convinced me that it works really well and wasn’t as gross as it seems. I guess there’s something that blocks the snot from going into your mouth. Or at least there better be!

Otherwise that one might be getting returned…

On another note, Lisa sent me another text recently with some exciting news: After taking an ancestry DNA test, she found out she is 41 percent British!

It later dawned on me that in my brief description of her on the Bridesmaids page of this website, since it originated as our wedding blog, I had pointed out her obsession with England then, saying she “loves all things British.” So I thought it was worth a shout-out now. Cheerio, mate!!

I’ve never taken one of those tests myself, but it would be cool if Justin and I both did it to see if there were any surprises. As far as we know, Baby D will be a combination of Irish, German, Italian, Swedish, French and Russian.

Perhaps the bigger mystery is whatever the heck our dog is.

We were told he was a cavapoo, a combination of a Cavalier King Charles spaniel and a poodle. But if you google cavapoo (results below), you’ll see those dogs look nothing like Luc!