Knocked Up

This is the first year we're celebrating Mother's/Father's Day (I'm pregnant), and I was clueless. Clueless until this weekend when the husband (rather obviously) expressed his wishes for a decent cast-iron skillet to make pancakes. You know, the flat one that fits over two burners. It seems like I'm always getting him some sort of Crate and Barrel-ly gift for special occasions.

But is it just me and my pregnancy hormones, or is it impossible for you to even look at Father's Day cards (or anniversary, or birthday) without weeping?

A rowing machine. It is a dual purpose gift - he will use it and love it, and I will get to use it too.

Went with some baseball tickets and a pair of hip Madris shorts from JCrew that he would never have forked over $50 for. I was trying for significant and meaningful as this is his 1st actual father's day but, the "special gifts" were just too cheese ball for our family's style. Just go with something fun that he'll actually like.  You and Axel in his life will provide all the necessary "meaning".  :)

Gift giving was fun before I had a baby.  Now it's just one more thing on the list of things I have to get accomplished in the minimal amount of time I have to work with.  

My mom says my dad wants pajamas with short sleeves and long bottoms...okay, I'll try...?  

As for baby daddy, we realize the best gift of all sometimes is saving each other money and time spent shopping, so we skipped Christmas and Mother/Father's day gifts this year for each other.  His birthday is the 16th anyway.  So I will get him whatever Eagles jersey/paraphenilia he is dying for this time.

I agree with you Melissa, it's my partner's second Father's Day and I just woke up and realized I had to buy something, in a slight panic, with like no free time at all. How's that for spontaneity.

He "is" a golfer but I've gone that route a few times already, so it's out of the question (how many clever ideas can one person have with all the presents you need to buy in a year, year after year!)

My tactic is to buy things for the home which we can all enjoy (he is into homey and design stuff, to some extend anyway). I just ordered a nice, discounted espresso machine online, and I'm hoping it will arrive on time.

Our first-time Daddy is getting a jogging stroller... and it's not a rude hint, he's been wanting one so he can get back into running with the little guy in tow.

BTW, thanks for the swaddle-weaning hints on the previous post, Oz and other readers. As of Friday our Max has been sleeping with arms free, wrapped from the waist down like a little mer-baby. I only *thought* the swaddle was helping... Turns out he was ready to ditch it. :)

30 days of sex...a cheap rip-off of a recent  Slate article.  Seriously, it's what he wants.  Once a day for 30 days.   Maybe I'll blog it.

I had ideas, but he's not into getting a father's day gift.  I called him a nofunik. but he's serious.  So it's just a card and another card from the dog and another from the baby.  We are big on a silly amount of crappy/amusing ards.

Mine's a video game junkie, so I grabbed one from Amazon that I knew he didn't  have. What he really wants, as he might say, is a day where no one wants a piece of him--a whole day where he doesn't have to deal with work, or fixing things around the house, or wiping anyone's nose, or listening to anyone bitch *ahem*, or walking any doggies, or trying to fix his mom's cable even though she lives 250 miles away.

I know I complain about all I do and how little time I have for myself, but guys do have that burden of responsibility, especially when they--like mine--are the sole breadwinners.

I like BabyBedu's idea as well.

I think hubby's getting a cute framed photo of me and the little one - that should do it!

I was going to get one of those backpack baby carriers for my new-dad husband, but there were so many options I got confused.  Also, I felt like he should try it on before purchasing.  So, instead, I went with the digital picture frame.  As for my own dad, a golf shirt and a non-fiction book are in the cards.  Here's a more original idea though: my friend and her sister got their father a day of race car lessons last year and he said it was the best gift he ever got.    

i'm doing something sentimental.  i put together a photobook for him that highlights his "daddyhood."

it's cute and something he can show off at the office.

Last year I compiled a bunch of pictures of my son and husband into a shutterfly photobook and wrote the captions as if they were from our son telling his dad everything he loved about him, how they are alike, etc.  This year he told me he didn't want anything because nothing could top last year's gift!

I'm giving him the day to himself.  Chicken and I will head out after breakfast and not return until dinner.  It's actually a time honored tradition in my family--my mom always wanted for a day away and a clean house.  She usually got it, depending on your definition of "clean"!