Almost 14 weeks along!
Ok so well i’m almost 14 weeks along, which means only another month until I possibly find out what I’m having. I can’t wait!! I am going to schedule a 4D ultrasound package that consists of one session at 18 weeks and another session at like 30 weeks! You get video, pictures, and all that stuff.
Of course I will be grateful for whatever I am having, but OMG I will feel depressed for like 10 minutes if I’m having another boy. I can’t even imagine adding a 3rd boy to the posse. I’m starting to feel like we’re just a pack of guys here, myself included. I want to have a girl so I can finally buy some pink cute clothes and put her hair in pig tails. I always loved to do hair and I haven’t been able to in a long time. I’d love to just sit there with her and play with her hair for hours. Of course, little girls probably don’t like having their hair messed with too much! Chris and Andrew want a little sister too. Chris was like, “Not another brother!”. I’m sure if it is a boy, we’ll enjoy it as much as we do the other ones when they are being good 🙂 But OMG they are so rowdy all the time. Can you even imagine three boys jumping on the couch, beating the crap out of each other, throwing things at each other, and screaming all day long? I go through that now, except with 2!!
Naturally everyone including myself has been referring to the baby as a “he” or a “him”. We are so used to it now. The funny thing is, I have my girl name picked out, but I have no clue what i’d name a boy. I don’t like unique names… I like traditional English names. Jacob comes to mind, but I already know a couple Jacobs. I am undecided on a boy middle name too. I feel compelled to give it “Micheal” as a middle name (spelled just like that) because it was my dad’s name, but then I kind of wanted to continue the tradition of giving a middle name from someone from the father’s side. Matt’s dad has his dad’s name as a middle (James), Matt has his dad’s name as a middle name (Peter), Chris has Matthew as a middle name, and Andrew has his grandpa’s name (Peter) as a middle name. The next name in line to be used is James, but I know several James’ that I despise, and am not comfortable with that. That leaves me with my dad’s name. I don’t really have a problem with that, except that we have issues in our lives where our dad’s name was brought up to us as a source of “fear” or a threat or accusations of being “just like him” (attitude wise) all the time. That’s not a label I necessarily want to haunt my next son with. I would hate to have to someday say to him when he’s mad, “Stop acting like your grandfather”. As much as I would never want to say things like that, we all know we say things we regret.
My girl name is pretty simple. Emily Beth is the girl name. Emily because it’s a nice simple, English name, and Beth after my sister. Any future girls (if any) would have their grandmother’s names as middle names. Of course, there is the great possibility that if this is a girl, this will be the last child. Three is enough for anyone!
As for how I’m feeling… pretty much like crap. I’m drained every single day, my back hurts, I have no appetite and have lost 10lbs so far, and the lapband likes to act up on me and prevent me from eating what I should. I would love to just be able to wake up in the morning without instantly wanting to go back to sleep for hours. It seems like I have to take a nap everyday or I can’t function. I had to force myself to eat yesterday when I woke up seeing stars! I was so dizzy I was probably dehydrated, which is a bad thing. Today was a pretty good day, not overly tired, and I was actually able to eat.
As for other news, we finally have Andrew 99% potty trained. He hasn’t worn a diaper in at least a month, but occasionally has accidents. He was so hard to train, it was horrible.
We went to the Turtle Cove waterpark at the Lower Huron Metropark today. It was fun… and really crowded for the week prior to the last weekend of the summer season. Julie, Joey, and Beth came with us and we had fun. Andrew loved the pool, and with his life jacket, had a fun time “wimming” in the pool. Chris love the water playscape and I personally enjoyed the lazy river. I could probably lay there forever. They have two waterslides but I only went on the regular one. Next time we go (maybe next year) i’ll try the tube slide! I need to get a new bathing suit though because the one I wore today was way too big and was sagging a bit in the butt area!
Matt starts college again soon. He is close to half way done with his Masters degree. I can’t wait til he finishes. Maybe then i’ll get a move on with my education. I need to do something. Not because I NEED to financially, but because I need to for personal achievement. It is important that I get some sort of degree in my life (soon preferably) just so that I can feel like I have accomplished something. Sure, being a wife and mother is an important job, but I need something else to brag about. I am halfway done…. I just need to find the time to finish the other half.
I can’t wait until the Olympics are over with… It’s 12:08 a.m. and I miss watching the 11 o’clock news and then Jay Leno. Thankfully they’ll be back on Monday. IT makes for really boring nights and we have been relying on our OnDemand programming to keep us occupied. That, and I have taken to solitaire like crazy to the point where I have been dreaming about playing. That’s pretty bad. Almost as bad as my sisters Pirates of the Caribbean Online addiction.
My sweet (sometimes) sissy leaves for college on Saturday… leaves only about 25 miles, mind you. I give it a week before she’s calling and complaining about being hungry, and I give it a month before she wants to come back home and somehow commute. He he…. 
I’m sorry Beth, you know your love of food compels you! I’ll get a text saying, “I’m hungry, feed me now!”. Then i’ll have to drive 25 miles just to take her to Panera bread!!
Ok, well I’m tired now! I’ll write again closer to my ultrasound date, or unless something new happens or there is new news!
