Well, now I can't tell who asked what last week because The New Blogger ate all the names off of your comments. But I'm answering some more questions anyway.
Today's topic? Baby #3. Let's get started!
Since you have one of each, do you have a preference whether it's a boy or a girl this time?
When I was pregnant with Garrett, I wanted a girl so bad I couldn't even see straight. Of course I only truly wanted a healthy baby, but I couldn't help having a preference. I didn't want to feel ANY sense of unhappiness or disappointment because of something as petty as the sex of the baby, so we chose NOT to find out. And after 24 hours of labor and 3 hours of pushing, did I CARE what sex the baby was? No! Okay, maybe a little. But I was delighted to have a son and could not imagine my life without my little boy in it.
When Garrett was 10 months old, we got pregnant for the second time. We knew right from the beginning that we would again choose NOT to know the sex until delivery day. I had myself believing I was carrying another boy, so when the doctor announced that it was a girl, my response was, "Are you teasing me?"
Not knowing the sex of the baby was such a beautiful mystery, and it felt delightfully old-fashioned, in the age of ultrasounds and babies named before you even meet them. I didn't have to limit my pregnancy daydreaming to 'boy' or 'girl'...I had the luxury of giving equal thought to what life might be like with either. It really wasn't inconvenient, either. We bought lots of green and yellow, did the nursery in Pottery Barn's "Bunnies" line, and made lists of boy names and girl names.
However. All that said, I think that we ARE planning on finding out this time, much to the delight of most of our friends and family, and much to the chagrin of Donna. Our reasons? We'd like to be able to prepare Garrett and Laura a little better, and figure out who's sharing a room.
We also feel like we've had the "surprise" experience, and since this is our last child, we'd now like to have the thrill of finding out as early as possible, like so many other couples do. We should be able to find out around the end of March.
And really, to answer the damn question already! There are pros and cons to each sex (blah to fixing TWO sets of little girl pigtails in the mornings! blah to having to squish TWO boys into Garrett's smaller room!), but I can honestly say that I don't care at all. I'm just delighted to be blessed with another pregnancy. *Insert ridiculously excited Paula Abdul clap here!*
What are you going to name that baby?
Well, seeing as we already used up our favorite boy name and our favorite girl name, um, I don't know. I have also had to rule out about 942 names due to my being a former teacher ("Daltons" are always trouble, and "Michael" is out because a "Michael" once tried to stab me with some kids' Fiskars...um, ditto for "Brandon") and also due to my husband's neverending list of psycho ex-girlfriends.
Garrett has suggested "Garrett", and Laura seems to prefer "Sarah" or "Flipper".
Some more realistic possibilities:
Boy: Landon or Benjamin
Girl: Grace or Madeline
What scares you the most about having three children?
Pretty much everything. The end.
Alright, fine. I'll give you my Top Seven:
1. Getting three small children in and out of the car and taking them places in public without A. Losing one or B. Letting one loose to be hit by a car or C. Being escorted out by security.
2. Labor and delivery. I know what is coming, and it is not good.
3. I'm afraid we'll end up with a cryer, like Laura was. She nearly drove us over the edge with the constant screeeeeeeaaaaaming.
4. I'm afraid of getting off of my sanity medications during the last trimester / nursing. I need to know that I will be able to hold it together for the sake of my older two children.
5. That I will never ever be able to lose the baby weight. I haven't lost the baby weight from the FIRST two, and this is just adding fuel to the fire. Rapidly.
6. I am worried that we will be shipped off to the poor house.
7. I'm sad about never being pregnant or nursing ever again. It's scary to think that that part of my life is coming to a close. Now all I will be left with is RAISING CHILDREN WHO WILL SOMEDAY BE TEENAGERS ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
Today's topic? Baby #3. Let's get started!
Since you have one of each, do you have a preference whether it's a boy or a girl this time?
When I was pregnant with Garrett, I wanted a girl so bad I couldn't even see straight. Of course I only truly wanted a healthy baby, but I couldn't help having a preference. I didn't want to feel ANY sense of unhappiness or disappointment because of something as petty as the sex of the baby, so we chose NOT to find out. And after 24 hours of labor and 3 hours of pushing, did I CARE what sex the baby was? No! Okay, maybe a little. But I was delighted to have a son and could not imagine my life without my little boy in it.
When Garrett was 10 months old, we got pregnant for the second time. We knew right from the beginning that we would again choose NOT to know the sex until delivery day. I had myself believing I was carrying another boy, so when the doctor announced that it was a girl, my response was, "Are you teasing me?"
Not knowing the sex of the baby was such a beautiful mystery, and it felt delightfully old-fashioned, in the age of ultrasounds and babies named before you even meet them. I didn't have to limit my pregnancy daydreaming to 'boy' or 'girl'...I had the luxury of giving equal thought to what life might be like with either. It really wasn't inconvenient, either. We bought lots of green and yellow, did the nursery in Pottery Barn's "Bunnies" line, and made lists of boy names and girl names.
However. All that said, I think that we ARE planning on finding out this time, much to the delight of most of our friends and family, and much to the chagrin of Donna. Our reasons? We'd like to be able to prepare Garrett and Laura a little better, and figure out who's sharing a room.
We also feel like we've had the "surprise" experience, and since this is our last child, we'd now like to have the thrill of finding out as early as possible, like so many other couples do. We should be able to find out around the end of March.
And really, to answer the damn question already! There are pros and cons to each sex (blah to fixing TWO sets of little girl pigtails in the mornings! blah to having to squish TWO boys into Garrett's smaller room!), but I can honestly say that I don't care at all. I'm just delighted to be blessed with another pregnancy. *Insert ridiculously excited Paula Abdul clap here!*
What are you going to name that baby?
Well, seeing as we already used up our favorite boy name and our favorite girl name, um, I don't know. I have also had to rule out about 942 names due to my being a former teacher ("Daltons" are always trouble, and "Michael" is out because a "Michael" once tried to stab me with some kids' Fiskars...um, ditto for "Brandon") and also due to my husband's neverending list of psycho ex-girlfriends.
Garrett has suggested "Garrett", and Laura seems to prefer "Sarah" or "Flipper".
Some more realistic possibilities:
Boy: Landon or Benjamin
Girl: Grace or Madeline
What scares you the most about having three children?
Pretty much everything. The end.
Alright, fine. I'll give you my Top Seven:
1. Getting three small children in and out of the car and taking them places in public without A. Losing one or B. Letting one loose to be hit by a car or C. Being escorted out by security.
2. Labor and delivery. I know what is coming, and it is not good.
3. I'm afraid we'll end up with a cryer, like Laura was. She nearly drove us over the edge with the constant screeeeeeeaaaaaming.
4. I'm afraid of getting off of my sanity medications during the last trimester / nursing. I need to know that I will be able to hold it together for the sake of my older two children.
5. That I will never ever be able to lose the baby weight. I haven't lost the baby weight from the FIRST two, and this is just adding fuel to the fire. Rapidly.
6. I am worried that we will be shipped off to the poor house.
7. I'm sad about never being pregnant or nursing ever again. It's scary to think that that part of my life is coming to a close. Now all I will be left with is RAISING CHILDREN WHO WILL SOMEDAY BE TEENAGERS ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
And now, I leave you with this gorgeous picture:
(Baby DOES have a nose...don't know why it didn't show up in the picture)
20 Comments:
I don't care what it is, it's cute already!
EEEEEEE!!! I am so excited for you! And just so ya know and not that you care but Grace is an awesome name.
It happens to be the middle name of my 2nd born.
Can't wait to find out what you're having!
How exciting! Don't worry, you are a great mother and you'll be able to handle another little one. I like the names you picked. My oldest sister is a teacher and she said the same thing about names when she was pregnant with her son. Obviously she didn't have a problem child named Brandon because that's the name she picked. If you are sad about this being your last child then don't limit yourself to that. I know from experience how heartbreaking it is if one person is sterile, but you decide you want more children. Sorry to go on and on and I hope I didn't offend you.
i'm with laura - flipper would be a great name for a kid. how unique and original! hell, go for broke and name the kid flipper lassie rin-tin-tin. :)
i'm glad you're still finding the energy to blog so well - seriously, i love reading your posts because they're always well-written. of course you'll have fears with another baby - of course! but really - you're a wonderful mother and a strong woman, and everything is going to be okay.
it's a boy, i can see his li'l bidness. please don't give him a complex by naming him "landon". (rolling eyes) love, nana
Your posts are always so fun to read but I love this one best. :) I am so excited for your little family and you guys are going to be just fine!
Since I teach also, I know what you mean about certain names being off-limits because of former students-from-hell. We had a heck of a time coming up with two that we both agreed on (my husband teaches also, so that's DOUBLE the names that are ruined!).
Not that I'm an expert, but I think Baby #3 is a boy. :)
Hmmmm, Flipper? I like it, it's different! LMAO.
Like Margarita, Grace is my 2nd born's middle name and I love it (of course, Margarita just wants to be like me and stole it). Benjamin and Landon are both very nice names.
I hope you have an easy pregnancy that you can really really enjoy.
Love the pic!
I love Grace (especially Gracie!), and Ben is adorable. I can't wait to name my own babies!
Also, thanks for laying it all out there regarding your pregnancy and your family dynamic. Luke and I will start trying this summer, so I love hearing your thoughts about everything!
Grace is my youngest middle name. I kow wish we had made it her first and call her Emily Gracie so I can use it!
Thank you for letting us go through this pregnancy with you! I am lovin it! (And I have to say, it's much easier to hear about someone else's morning sickness, rather than going through it.)
I almost forgot this for some reason, but before we knew whether Jack was a boy or a girl, we allowed KJ to nickname him. He named him Icky BoBo. We called Jack "Icky" for the first 22 weeks of my pregnancy. Haha! Poor Jack.
I love the names you are considering, and I love that you're finding out. I had to find out on both my kids. I'm terrible with surprises...
It's so funny how you talked about not finding otu with the first two but finding out with this one. For all the same reasons, I think I'm going to do just the opposite. I HAD to know with the first because it was the first and I wanted as few surprises as possible. With the second I HAD to know because I needed to know whether to keep all of the girl stuff out of go out and get all new boy stuff. When we do decide to have #3, I've thought and thought and I really would like to NOT find out what we are having. We have one of each so we already have anything and everything we would need for a boy or girl. And I've done the delivery thing twice now so I know what I'm in for. There won't (God willing) be any surprises. That is, unless the surprise is whether it's a boy or girl.
And #7. Oh my gosh #7. I'm not ready for that day which is why I think I might hold off on having #3 for a while because I'm not ready to be done and I don't know if I can do #4 and if I do do #4 I can't imagine that being it. I'm going to shut up now and leave this for a post of my own instead of taking up your whole comment section.
No more Nathans please, but; I don't think there are enough Kyndals in the world. AND, Kyndal can be a boy or girl name!!
Love the girl names you are considering. Grace and Madelyn would be my picks if I ever had child #2. So far no bad experiences in kindergarten with a Madelyn or a Grace!
I love the baby names! And the ultrasound is precious. I love it.
You'll be just fine in every way - you are an awesome mother and besides, you'll have two little helpers!
I of course LOVE Benjamin. I totally agree w/ Kyndal about No Nathan. I am sure Donna probably agrees too! For the girl name I like Madelyn. But Grace is good too, cause you could call her Gracie. Maybe you should just name her Erica though. Not too many of those around. I am a syllables kind of gal. It has to flow. Have a good day.
Great work. The baby is soo adorable. I cannot wait to be laying on the hospital floor again trying to listen through the crack and cheer you on. My suggestion on the name: stand on your back deck and scream the full name really loud. If you are like me and I know you are you will need the name to flow when you are yelling at them so they don't start laughing at you when you can't even say their name right. See you tomorrow, can't wait.
Well, Now I know why my week sucked. I got too busy to check in with you. You put the smaile back on my face. as for you list of "7", # 1 probably won't be a problem cuz you won't be going anyplace.Unless your husband goes along. My poor Mom used to try to grocery shop with 3 of us. We were all 1 year apart. 1 was in the basket,one she made hold her hand or the basket and there was always 1 that was free roaming the store. She used to bribe us with M&Ms. And # 7, well maybe it will be better for you then it was for me. I had several teens at once. It was really wonderful. Really.
Oh, than you for sharing the picture of that sweet baby with all of us. Shouldn't we have a pool going or something? Online betting? We could guess date and weight. Okay,just a thought.
one more time,,that was "smile" on my face. I don't know where that smaile came from. God,I need to learn to spell.
Sorry I didn't comment earlier, but I am oh-so-wa-hay behind in my blog reading! Chalk it up to pre-uterus-viewing stress!!
Let's be honest just for a second. Babies at 12 weeks? Not cute. I'm not quite sure who all these woman are who are confused about this... but really now. Mine especially. Can you say "alien"? At least yours actually looks like a baby!!
It sounds like your biggest fears about having three kids are the same as mine about having four. I only have TWO hands, y'know?
We are going to find out the sex of the baby too. Only because my hubby is dyyying for a girl, and will need some time to ease into the "we are never going to have a girl" idea. Because, dude, we are so having another boy! That's what I do, make boys!
Although, if we are having a girl, I might steal that name.... Flipper is lovely.
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