Maternity clothes and paternity pants

At the three month mark, The Pod's current selection of pants and jeans are just starting not to fit properly. It's shopping time!

We set out bright and early on Saturday morning to see what Target had to offer in maternity wear. The Pod did very well here, scoring really nice maternity jeans and a top for a nice price. It was all new for me, seeing the state-of-the art in maternity jeans technology. Basically they are regular jeans, with a wide band of elastic at the top to accommodate the belly. Satisfied here, we next moved onto the mall, first trying JCPenney, where she scored more maternity pants, a nice khaki number on sale.

Next was the "mother lode" at Motherhood Maternity. She really liked the selection there, and the sales clerk was very helpful. And more evidence that she's not showing yet, this was more or less the exchange after The Pod wasn't quite finding her size after some looking around:

The Pod: "I'm three months pregnant."
Clerk: "Oh, obviously this isn't your first pregnancy."
The Pod: "No, this is."
Clerk: "Really? You're not showing at all!"
The Pod: "I know!"

Thanks to her friendly clerk, she scored another top and more maternity jeans, which fit perfectly and were the cheapest ones she tried. Definitely worth a return trip when more maternity wear is required. She capped off our super-successful shopping trip with new sneakers from Lord & Taylor, which were also on sale. Being pregnant must be a shopping good luck charm, everywhere we went, things magically went on sale. Nice!

Paternity pants: Needing new jeans myself (not because I'm pregnant, thank you), I took a detour to Lord & Taylor while The Pod stopped in Easy Spirit, and I happened on a pair of Ben Sherman jeans (my favorite!) on a sale rack, but they were a bit too big for me according to the label. There was no price tag, but something told me that was a good thing. I found the tag in the back pocket, it said $61.99, but undeterred, I checked it at the self-scanner, and it came up $9.99. $9.99!

Heck, for $9.99, I can live with them being too big. So I ran into the fitting room and tried them on, and they fit perfectly. (Oops! So much for too big!) I took them to the counter, made sure they really were $9.99, paid and practically ran out of there like I stole them. Now The Pod calls them my paternity pants.