Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Well, that isn't what I wanted to hear...
We had another doctor's appointment today. We were really looking forward to it since we were getting to have another ultrasound to get a few views that the baby wouldn't allow last time. That bright thought was enough to make me not dread the glucose test I knew was coming. I obediently chugged that orange gunk down so fast that the lab techs went, "Whoa she is done already!" and waited my hour. Eventually we had the ultrasound and get another look at our little boy with Jacob awwing and how cuting all through the procedure before getting to see the doctor. The doctor gave us the news that the baby is absolutely great. The heart and neck look wonderful. (Everything else was checked last time.) And then he looked at me and said those words no pregnant woman wants to hear- "You failed your glucose test." Now I have to go back next week and have the three hour test. The doctor really wanted me to know that failing this test doesn't mean I have gestational diabetes, just that I might have gestational diabetes. Yay! (sarcasm there!) I am really praying that I do not have gestational diabetes. Hubby and I have been really trying to make excuses for why I failed- I am running a fever, I was absolutely starving, etc. I don't know if any of those can affect the result but we are hoping! Really we are just hoping and praying for good results next week!
Monday, December 27, 2010
When you're curious...
We have a nursery plan! Anyone that knows me knows that I love planning so woohoo! When I close my eyes I can see almost the entire room all put together and it completely excites me! I think what excites my hubby is that he won't have to paint the room to do it!
See, the guest room is becoming the baby's room. A few years ago we painted the guest room and hubby picked the color. At the store I warned him that the chip he had chosen would be a lot of color but he insisted he knew what he was doing. That night when he was painting he called me up and asked if I knew how much color that paint was. It is one of those stories that makes me giggle every time. Anyway, once the room was completely painted we realized that he had inadvertently picked the color blue that about 50% of my Curious George books feature on the cover, hence our naming the color Curious George blue. Once we made that realization we decided the guest room would house my Curious George collection. Yep, if you were ever a guest in my house you slept in the George room. Everyone needs a little whimsy somewhere, right?
Now, when we found out that we are having a boy Boogie immediately started advocating a Curious George nursery. Honestly he had advocated in that direction a bit beforehand too since he was worried that George would end up in boxes and he knows George puts a smile on my face. (Super sweet kid, huh?) Anyway, Boog gave me puppy dog eyes and lots of snuggles while he told me all about how cute a CG nursery would be. I promised to look and see if I could find anything CG related for a nursery. I did find a set, but it is a boatload of money and most of the set is red and white checked. It just didn't strike me as just right. But, just to be sure I covered all my bases with Boog I kept looking... and would you believe I found a CG crib sheet from pottery barn? It is a bunch of different drawings of George based on the original George (as opposed to the Will Ferrell movie or the PBS show) and is completely adorable! Once I fell in love with that sheet we knew for sure what the theme of this nursery would be!
So, we are reusing Boogie's crib, which is a natural wood, with that Pottery Barn sheet, a rich brown crib bumper (which I refer to as monkey brown though the manufacturer calls it earth), a monkey mobile (I plan to replace the green checked sleeves with sleeves made of CG fabric), a crib skirt made of some classic CG fabric that I found on eBay and a brown and blue crocheted blanket. The walls will stay CG blue but around the room there will be a single row of white shelves that will hold all of the George stuff I have collected, with the exception of some snugly ones that will be left down for him to play with. Now we can't reuse Boog's changing table since it had an accident 5 years ago, but we will be replacing it with one that matches the crib so it will be natural wood as well. We are going to use a monkey brown changing pad cover and some brown baskets with cute little monkey faces on them that we found at Toys R Us for storage on the shelves. We are avoiding having to buy a dresser by getting a closet organizer. Oh and amazingly the hangers that Kiddo stopped using with her room redo match the blue of the room so I have matching hangers already! Woohoo! The other thing we have is Boogie's glider and ottoman. It is nice to have a few big things under our belts already!
Now here is where we hit upon the part of the room that I am not sure about... When I found that beautiful Pottery Barn sheet I also discovered that they CG wall clings. They are $70 for five but each one is huge! They are very cute but don't be fooled if you look at them online. They are just George, no balloons or clouds like in the picture. As cute as they are I worry about the cost ( I mean those clings cost half the cost of the changing table we are looking to get) and whether big clings are the right way to go. It is kind of difficult to find George artwork but there are calenders that I can get where I can just pull out the pages and frame them for cute little wall art. Which would you choose?
When all of that is together then I will evaluate if the current white window scarf in the room should stay or if I should get something else, and just what color rug to put in the room. I think that covers all the bases. Can anyone think of anything I have missed?
See, the guest room is becoming the baby's room. A few years ago we painted the guest room and hubby picked the color. At the store I warned him that the chip he had chosen would be a lot of color but he insisted he knew what he was doing. That night when he was painting he called me up and asked if I knew how much color that paint was. It is one of those stories that makes me giggle every time. Anyway, once the room was completely painted we realized that he had inadvertently picked the color blue that about 50% of my Curious George books feature on the cover, hence our naming the color Curious George blue. Once we made that realization we decided the guest room would house my Curious George collection. Yep, if you were ever a guest in my house you slept in the George room. Everyone needs a little whimsy somewhere, right?
Now, when we found out that we are having a boy Boogie immediately started advocating a Curious George nursery. Honestly he had advocated in that direction a bit beforehand too since he was worried that George would end up in boxes and he knows George puts a smile on my face. (Super sweet kid, huh?) Anyway, Boog gave me puppy dog eyes and lots of snuggles while he told me all about how cute a CG nursery would be. I promised to look and see if I could find anything CG related for a nursery. I did find a set, but it is a boatload of money and most of the set is red and white checked. It just didn't strike me as just right. But, just to be sure I covered all my bases with Boog I kept looking... and would you believe I found a CG crib sheet from pottery barn? It is a bunch of different drawings of George based on the original George (as opposed to the Will Ferrell movie or the PBS show) and is completely adorable! Once I fell in love with that sheet we knew for sure what the theme of this nursery would be!
So, we are reusing Boogie's crib, which is a natural wood, with that Pottery Barn sheet, a rich brown crib bumper (which I refer to as monkey brown though the manufacturer calls it earth), a monkey mobile (I plan to replace the green checked sleeves with sleeves made of CG fabric), a crib skirt made of some classic CG fabric that I found on eBay and a brown and blue crocheted blanket. The walls will stay CG blue but around the room there will be a single row of white shelves that will hold all of the George stuff I have collected, with the exception of some snugly ones that will be left down for him to play with. Now we can't reuse Boog's changing table since it had an accident 5 years ago, but we will be replacing it with one that matches the crib so it will be natural wood as well. We are going to use a monkey brown changing pad cover and some brown baskets with cute little monkey faces on them that we found at Toys R Us for storage on the shelves. We are avoiding having to buy a dresser by getting a closet organizer. Oh and amazingly the hangers that Kiddo stopped using with her room redo match the blue of the room so I have matching hangers already! Woohoo! The other thing we have is Boogie's glider and ottoman. It is nice to have a few big things under our belts already!
Now here is where we hit upon the part of the room that I am not sure about... When I found that beautiful Pottery Barn sheet I also discovered that they CG wall clings. They are $70 for five but each one is huge! They are very cute but don't be fooled if you look at them online. They are just George, no balloons or clouds like in the picture. As cute as they are I worry about the cost ( I mean those clings cost half the cost of the changing table we are looking to get) and whether big clings are the right way to go. It is kind of difficult to find George artwork but there are calenders that I can get where I can just pull out the pages and frame them for cute little wall art. Which would you choose?
When all of that is together then I will evaluate if the current white window scarf in the room should stay or if I should get something else, and just what color rug to put in the room. I think that covers all the bases. Can anyone think of anything I have missed?
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Registry fun
Can you believe that when Justin and I registered at Babies R Us this weekend it was the first time I have ever made a baby registry? This is my third baby and I had never registered before. Crazy, right? With my first baby I felt like I didn't deserve anyone helping me out. With the second we felt that it would be wrong to register for the baby when we were also registered for the wedding. With this baby, we thought it wouldn't be right to register for my third child. And then.... one day I was sitting down trying to make a list of the things I need to get for the baby and writing down the web addresses for the particular ones I liked and I thought, "if only I could just click and save without ending up with a huge list on my favorites page." Ding, Ding, Ding! That is what registries are- lists. So we decided that we could use a registry as a list. It is really just an electronic reminder of what we have left to acquire. We know not to expect anyone to buy anything from our registry (not that we would complain if they did Haha!), but oh my goodness, it was so much easier than writing list after list and keeping track of things here and there. Now I can click and check. It was so easy to do, really pretty fun and is making things so much simpler to keep track of. No longer will I have to just remember what scent baby wash I liked, just which bouncy seat Hubby and Boogie could agree on, or (and this would have been supremely difficult) which little toys Boogie insisted the baby would like. I am really regretting never doing this earlier! Oh and did I mention they gave us a little present from pampers and coupons for doing it? Woot woot!
Friday, December 3, 2010
Stuck!
We officially know the gender of the little one I carry. Well, I should say either we definitely know or this baby has quite a birth defect growing out from between it's legs! Yep, it is a boy and now I am stuck. We had a name agreed upon for a girl (Everyone in our house thought this baby would be a girl!) but we have no idea for a boy. Now before people start throwing random names at me let me say we own a baby name book. We can find 50,000 random baby names. We don't want random baby names. Our babies names are intentional and purposeful. They are full of meaning.
We have a three prong (almost four prong) test for naming our children. Number 1, and most important, is that we name our children after great people. Catherine Viana was named after my grandmother and my great grandmother. One of those women showed me how to love even the broken people of the world and the other left such a beautiful mark on our family that I have always wished I could have grown up knowing her. Jacob Allen was named for my great grandfather and a great many men on his fathers side, including his own father. I don't need to expound what a wonderful man I think my husband is but I will say that my great grandfather was a dedicated and hard worker (you can be sure to know that by the fact that the man managed to get and maintain 2 jobs during the depression.) By naming my children after these people I am stating my hope that I can instill some of these great attributes into my kids. I hope to have children who genuinely care for and love others, work hard, make family important and never turn their back on the people who need them. This is important to me and it frustrates me to have people tell me to just give this up and name my children any ole name. Why would I do that to the third child? Don't you think that would tell this third child that they weren't worth the work of finding a meaningful name, but his brother and sister were? Seriously people!
The second thing that is important to us is the meaning of the name itself. Catherine means pure, Jacob is (obviously) a great man of the bible. It isn't that the names have to be quite as strong as these are but they must not mean things that scare me for their future. Sorry, but a name that means something like prone to sickness is really not going to OK for my kids! Ha ha!
The last prong is connotation. Did we know a great many people with that name that grated our nerves, or is their someone in history who lends a negative connotation to the name. You know what I mean here, right? I don't want a baby who shares a name with a serial killer or dictator! In this last prong (or you could consider it a fourth prong) we also think about how the names sound together and what the initials make. I mean, who wants HIV as their initials? Or how about being named Harry Larry? I am thinking either of those would lead to an easy opening for being picked on!
So, we know what the requirements are. Now we just need to figure out a name!
We have a three prong (almost four prong) test for naming our children. Number 1, and most important, is that we name our children after great people. Catherine Viana was named after my grandmother and my great grandmother. One of those women showed me how to love even the broken people of the world and the other left such a beautiful mark on our family that I have always wished I could have grown up knowing her. Jacob Allen was named for my great grandfather and a great many men on his fathers side, including his own father. I don't need to expound what a wonderful man I think my husband is but I will say that my great grandfather was a dedicated and hard worker (you can be sure to know that by the fact that the man managed to get and maintain 2 jobs during the depression.) By naming my children after these people I am stating my hope that I can instill some of these great attributes into my kids. I hope to have children who genuinely care for and love others, work hard, make family important and never turn their back on the people who need them. This is important to me and it frustrates me to have people tell me to just give this up and name my children any ole name. Why would I do that to the third child? Don't you think that would tell this third child that they weren't worth the work of finding a meaningful name, but his brother and sister were? Seriously people!
The second thing that is important to us is the meaning of the name itself. Catherine means pure, Jacob is (obviously) a great man of the bible. It isn't that the names have to be quite as strong as these are but they must not mean things that scare me for their future. Sorry, but a name that means something like prone to sickness is really not going to OK for my kids! Ha ha!
The last prong is connotation. Did we know a great many people with that name that grated our nerves, or is their someone in history who lends a negative connotation to the name. You know what I mean here, right? I don't want a baby who shares a name with a serial killer or dictator! In this last prong (or you could consider it a fourth prong) we also think about how the names sound together and what the initials make. I mean, who wants HIV as their initials? Or how about being named Harry Larry? I am thinking either of those would lead to an easy opening for being picked on!
So, we know what the requirements are. Now we just need to figure out a name!
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