Today we went and looked for baby bedding. Apparently (and no one told me this before we got into this whole baby thing), before the baby arrives you are required by law to pre-pick a baby "theme." All the forms you have to fill out and all the ladies you talk to about the baby's room all have the theme question. So it's a thing.

Since I am still desperately clinging to the idea that we won't find out the sex of the baby, this whole theme thing becomes a big factor in picking out the baby bedding and colors and stuff. Consequently, at the baby bedding place we gravitated towards the more gender-neutral colors and themes and eventually found this purple and green plaid pattern to work with.

Well apparently just having colors is not thematic enough. You have to pick animals or sports or cartoon characters or monkeys or transportation (at this point, if I knew we were having a boy, I'd go straight to the planes, trains, & automobiles theme - if only to put this poster up in the baby's room) to augment your colors. Our initial thought was to come up with some sort of animal thing for each gender. So we decided that if it was a boy, we'd go frogs to match the green. We were all happy with that and figured we could just go purple flowers or something if it was a girl ... when all of the sudden it hit me: we could just combine the boy and girl theme animals from the get-go if we went with bullfrogs and butterflies!

Jeanine and I grew up on this record and even talked about it and Music Machine on our first date, so it could not be more perfect. Once the baby comes and announces its gender, we can always go a little heavier on the frogs or butterflies. But this way we're set no matter what; and we're set on something that has some neat significance for us.