EXTRA pink laundry

the other day i did laundry.  actually, most days i do laundry.  it's really nice.  i love this whole daily laundry thing.  before, i used to save up laundry for a few weeks and then do five loads at once (in our apartment laundry room).  it was nice that i could be done start to finish in a few hours but it made for a pretty intense night.

well, the other day, when my washer load finished, i opened it up and had one of those "i love my life" moments.  they come so often these days that i have to take pictures sometimes to keep track of the really good ones.  there are a million reasons to pray for a little girl.  pink laundry is on the list.  you see, pink is my favorite color.  so you can only imagine how fun it is to do loads of laundry that look like this. 

there are a few things that don't belong to baby girl

as i was transferring laundry over to the dryer i noticed something out of the ordinary.  my [white] washable nursing pads had turned pink.  i was thrilled!  although a little confused and hesitant as well.

yes, i'm posting a picture of my nursing pads on the internet.  now the world knows they are pink.

i looked through the laundry to see what else might have turned pink and i found this elephant sleeper.  if you've seen pictures of baby girl wearing this sleeper, you know it used to be stark white.  not anymore!

i used to hate cleaning out the dryer fuzz... but when it's pink i actually really enjoy it!

when i was putting the dry laundry away, i was noticing that maybe i had initially overlooked a few things.  maybe it was more than just the nursing pads and elephant sleeper.  the casualty list grew.

these changing table covers used to be the same shade of pink.

the top blanket used to be pink and white stripes.  now it's pink and lighter pink.  the blanket underneath has a hint of rose.  and the other blankets are more pink than they were before!

on the changing table, i have a regular changing table cover.  on top of that i have a burp cloth as well as a waterproof white pad.  i don't expect this to always be a necessity but it seems like in these early weeks, babies seem to be oozing or exploding out of every orifice.  these make clean up very quick and easy.  the cover is now extra pink, the burp cloth used to be white with pink flowers... actually, it used to be the same white as that waterproof mat!

the new look

and here is a picture of the culprit.  random red shirt from china.  never been washed.

the guilty party

there are even more things that i didn't take pictures of... a few onesies and maybe some socks or a hair bow.  if you look at baby's facebook pictures maybe you'll notice that the white snail onesie with the brown polka dots and pink trim is now pink with brown dots.  so although everything white turned pink, and everything pink turned pinker, somehow nothing in the wash was actually ruined!  now, if baby girl was actually baby boy then that would have been another story...