the Name Game

We have had a girl’s baby name picked out for 4 years now, and were hoping to have a little Brynne Marie McKenzie, apparently God thinks we are in need of more boys so we will have to wait to see if we ever have a little girl named Brynne. So really we weren’t stressing over boys names but we do have one we are planning to stick with, but it’s becoming harder to come up w/ a middle name that sounds good and that Dean will give his input on. If you already have been told, dont share here, but if you dont know yet, our Boy’s Name starts w/ the letter “B” and that’s all we are divulging on the internet world until his birth, so guess all you want!

This pregnancy is sooo different than my first. My appetite right now can be summed up best by the word “ravenous” I seem to have a bottomless pit of a stomach and often w/in an hour of a meal I am hungry again. W/ my first pregnancy I was still throwing up a lot at this point, so needless to say I am concerned I’ll gain a lot more weight this time, although I’m doing pretty well so far in the weight category. I am also have experiences I never did w/ the first, like a ton of Braxton Hicks contractions and a lot of “pressure” off and on. I am afraid this means an early labor for me since I didnt know what a contraction felt like w/ Caleb until labor was induced and even then most of the pain was in my back , so these feelings are odd and a little frightening. Overall though, this pregnancy has been healthier for me than Calebs, at least so far. The drs think the coming weeks may hold a change as I get further my risks for diabetes and high blood go up, but for now I am feeling great, tired, but great!

I am feeling Baby Boy B move all of the time, and it went from feelings of “flutters” to full blown Dean can feel from the outside kicks in just a few days, after a few days of my eating non stop! I think maybe our little Boy was growing a lot over the weekend and he’s become a quite good kicker. The u/s showed he had long legs and his legs were right in the place where I kept feeling his kicks, so that was neat to see. It’s one thing to feel the kicks and another to see your baby move as you feel it. I love this part of being pregnant! It’s so amazing to me that this little child inside of me is spending his days just floating around exercising his new legs and arms while I go about w/ my life. I feel guilty when I am in conversation w/ someone face to face and I find myself distracted by the baby’s kicks, it’s like I want to say hey wait, the baby wants me to pay attention, I’ll talk to you later! I dont want to miss a single moment of bonding w/ this baby but w/ having a toddler and dog to care for all day I notice I barely get a chance to enjoy being pregnant so lately I’ve taken to making a point to stop when I feel the baby move and will talk to him if I can. I’ve yet to try to get Caleb to feel my belly, I figure he is kind of young and it seems the more we talked about baby yesterday the grouchier he got.

today we went to walmart and I let myself buy a baby boy outfit, a pj outfit, and Caleb asked if it was for his baby cousin Jack and I said no for our baby B and he said oh, he needs that to sleep in? he will come out and sleep. Too cute! I told him he will wear it when he sleeps yes, but I didnt mention time. We keep telling him the baby is coming for Christmas and when it’s cold out, since that wont happen for a while and thats something he can understand. The baby will be here before Christmas, but I figure we’ll decorate the house before I have the baby, we usually do right after thanksgiving and thats right before they’d schedule my c-section so he’ll think it’s Christmas time when the baby comes! both our boys will have had their first Christmas’ young, Caleb was only 4 months old for his first Christmas and this child will be anywhere from a month to 3 weeks old when Christmas arrives. A wonderful Christmas blessing indeed!