At the moment 2 of my children are singing at the top of their lungs into spoons. Because, they're "pretending they are microphones". It's super cute!

On a unrelated note. Last week I decided to list some of my old bigger maternity clothes on eBay so that I can replenish my supply with smaller (5 sizes!) maternity clothes. My auctions end today and they are doing splendidly! I've never really had much luck selling clothes on eBay (I've only tried a couple times). APPARENTLY maternity clothes are the way to go! This is exciting! And from what I hear it gets really crazy the last hour of your auction! Can't wait for that!

The Name Game

I feel like this is just turning into a pregnancy blog. But nothing much is really going on. It's February so things are pretty quiet around here (well other than cabin fever). So, really, the only thing I have to report on is baby progress. I guess you can either bare with me or else tune back in on August 30th. But then again the blog will probably be bogged down with actual baby info not just fetus facts.

ANYWAY. We've officially decided that we don't want to find out the gender of our baby (all right give me all the "You're crazy! It's the 21st century! How can you stand to not know?!?" comments. Get them out of your system). I want to have it be a surprise (even though I have a pretty good idea of what I'm having). And since we know the birthday already I want to have some excitement in the OR (because you know having a brand new little person join your family isn't very exciting in it's self *sarcasm*).

I know it's early but with our track record it's going to take the next 28 weeks to figure out a name for our child anyway. With Gaius I dont' think we ended up deciding until the 7th month and since we are not finding out the sex this time it should take twice as long to come up with 2 names right?

I have a boys' first name that I love- but Marc hates.

And he has a girl's name that he loves and I can't stand.

This type of conversation will go on for months and MONTHS. I've considered the possibility of letting him name one gender and me the other. But i just can't handle turning over that much control. It's not because I think he has bad taste (he did come up with the names for both our boys, and he likes to take credit for Leia-which just isn't so!) :-). I'm just afraid that he'll decide this time that our child needs a boring name and I want veto power!

I put a lot of thought into our children's names and still 2 out of the 3 have names that people mispronounce all-the-time. Which is a little annoying to me. So this time I'm taking that into account. Also since our families are so large that takes out another 38 names (to tell you the truth I don't really like any of those anyway). Not to mention that as soon as a name reaches the Top 100 list it automatically drops off my list of possible choices. Who would've thought that our kid with a name beginning with X would be the exception to this rule? So as you can see it's going to be awhile before we commit to anything. However, I AM willing to take suggestions! So let me have 'em!

11 weeks.

*sigh* I'm 11 weeks today (my counter says 12 because I set it to when I'll actually have the baby so it's a week ahead). With my last pregnancy I had some complications between the 11th and 12th week and was put on bed rest for 6 weeks. Thankfully the rest worked and I was able to deliver Gaius 29 weeks later. But it was nerve-racking, scary, and very boring. So if you think of it, can you pray for me this week? I've been trying not to be too physical this time in hopes of avoiding that whole ordeal. But still that fear is in the back of my mind. I'm so thankful that God choose to bless us with our crazy monkey boy! But I'd like it to be a little less eventful this time around! Thanks so much!

Three At Last, Three At Last...

I can't believe the difference a year makes! Kids do a lot of growing up between the 2nd and 3rd year.
However, Gaius still wants to be my baby! In fact he's adamant about it!

Happy Birthday Baby!

You Might Be Pregnant If...

*you pick out the meal you're going to have 3 days before the date you and your husband are planning on going on.

*you can cry on cue.

*it's not uncommon for you wake up with a wet pillow from last night's nightmare.

*your kids, husband, dog, and complete strangers drive you absolutely nuts!

*you sit down on your bed to tie your shoes and wake up 2 hours later.

*the idea of eating take-out every night sounds heavenly because that means you don't have to brainstorm and cook the meal.

*the second you walk into your house you go and change into your pajamas.

*as soon as your Dr. tells you not to eat something, that's all you can think about.

*suddenly your 4 major food groups are: Oranges, Grapefruit, Raisin Bran, and Cheese Burgers.

Thought Soup: Part 1

Remember the days when people didn't have cellphones permanently attached to the side of their faces? It wasn't all THAT long ago, or was it (1998? 1999?)? The jury is still out on whether it really is a technological improvement or not.

Today's (which may actually turn into a week long process) Activity

I am trying to snipe myself a pair of jeans from ebay that will:

a. not fall down

b. not squish the baby

3. not look retarded


Wish me luck!

Oh and P.S. I'm a cheapskate so we'll see how it goes.