Look Out!! Here She Comes...

The Results Are In

Well, the day has come. No more voting. We have a bit of a tie. 42% voted for a boy, 42% for a girl. And then I'm excited to know that someone thinks we are having a Mexican baby. I'm sure it was my husband since he claims that he was in Hobbs when I got pregnant. (This is strictly a joke for those of you who aren't familiar with his sense of humor.) I'm glad it will not be Mexican since I can't speak Spanish.
Ok, for the information you've all been waiting for...
Sorry, we don't know yet. We had the ultrasound this morning, but this baby wouldn't cooperate any better than Zoey did at this gestational age. The sonographer squirted lots of goop on my belly; I laughed, coughed, wiggled and Lynn poked, but it just wouldn't let us see. So the baby girl stuff will have to stay in storage for awhile longer and we'll just have to keep saying, "no, we don't know what we're having yet..."
What we did find out is that it is a healthy, strong, active baby that will be born in February. We've decided to do the whole birth thing on our own (no doctors, no midwives), so this information was quite comforting.
When we were trying to get it to move so we could get the perfect angle, Lynn poked my belly and you could see his finger on the screen along with the baby moving in response to it. It was amazing! So sweet!
As soon as we get the ultrasound photos scanned, I'll post the best ones for you to try to figure out. Some of them are actually very clear.
I'll keep everybody posted on whether we will try to find out again!

Just Got These Pics

I just couldn't resist putting these new pictures up. Maybe these smiles will brighten someone's day. Zoey "took a step" on Wednesday. It's in quotes because I don't know if I would qualify it as an actual step. She was letting go of my hand and reaching for the ottoman, and accidentally stepped without knowing it. I'm writing about it because it proves that she can...she just doesn't want to.

She also has MORE teeth coming in. MOLARS!! Hello!?! Pretty soon, she'll have more teeth than Bryce.

Oh! and the other morning, Evyn was peeking over her bunk bed down at Zoey on the changing table and I said, "Look, that's Evyn!" and she pointed at Evyn and very clearly said, "Eddin"

well, not CLEARLY. But it made Evyn pretty happy.

Can you tell I have extra time on my hands. Lynn's parents took the girls for the week since they were here and then will be back on Thursday. They would have taken Bryce, but the school might have a little problem with him missing a week for no reason. And he'll get to go for a week by himself when school is out. He likes that better than having to spend time with Evyn any day!

Anyway...I don't know what to do with myself without chasing a 10 month old away from dog food and bathroom cabinets...or answering 83 questions and then being told my answers are wrong because my 4 yr old knows much more than me. So, blogging seems the most logical answer to the burning question, "What do you do in a quiet house?"

Tumbling (take 2)

Remember those other tumbling pictures I promised from Grandma's camera? Well, I finally got them today. I'm sure you can figure them out, but one is of Evyn on her coach's shoulders. The other is of her doing an assisted flip at the end of the trampoline. She still loves tumbling and looks forward to it every week. We've finally gotten the hang of what Monday is. She used to ask every day if it's Monday because that means she gets to tumble. Now she says what day it is, and then tells me all the days before that day. "Today is Friday. Yesterday was Thursday. The day before that was Wednesday. The day before that was Tuesday..." this happens almost every day on the way home from school. I'm hoping it's because she's learning the days of the week in school and not that she's got some strange obsessive compulsive disorder regarding the days of the week.

Wiggle Worm

I've been feeling the baby move from deep within my womb for quite awhile now. Last night, as Lynn and I layed down to watch a movie, it seemed to move so big I thought I might be able to feel it from the outside. So I felt my belly with my hand and there it was, big as you please. So, I told Lynn to feel my belly, just in case he could feel it, too. Immediately he felt it move. Now, I don't know how many of you have been in the business of trying to feel babies move from the outside of a pregnant mom's belly. In my experience, it's nearly impossible because my stubborn children always stop moving as soon as someone touches the outside of their little cave. So, when we both felt it from the outside on the very first try, I was quite impressed. We must have a brave (or compliant) one in there.
I guess the excitement overwhelmed us because about halfway through the movie, Lynn suddenly awoke and asked what he missed. I couldn't tell him. I had fallen asleep way before he had.
Movie off. Lights out.

Cast Your Vote

I've had a few votes sent via email/facebook regarding the sex of this baby, so I thought I'd put a poll up. I'm interested to know what you, the people, think. Not that your opinions will change a gosh darn thing. It is what it is. But this is turning into a fun little game.

baby banana

I don't think anything has happened recently in kid world. I was checking on my website that updates the baby's size by comparing it to different produce. If you really think about it, that's kind of creepy. I guess I really didn't think about it until I had looked at it one day and saw that soon it will be the size of a mango. Then that same day, I cut up a mango. Maybe it's just me...
Anyway! At this point the baby is the size of a banana. the most common question right now is "Do you know what the sex is yet?" It's kind of strange that I don't remember that being a real concern with anybody in my previous pregnancies, but for some reason, I'm asked at least once a day with this one. Maybe by the fourth, people just don't know what else to say.
I really want to find out with this one for a number of reasons. #1 - the kids really want a baby brother, and if it's not, I want to prepare them for the letdown. #2- I really think it's a boy, and if it's not, I would like to stop calling it a he in my head. #3- we have lots of girl stuff and no room in our house. So, it would be especially great to get rid of it all if that's a possibility. #4- we still don't have a name, and picking one is easier than picking two. #5- I'd like to have an answer for all those inquiring minds besides, "no, we don't know yet, but we really want to."
So, all that said...I will be checking into a sonogram any day now, and will let you all know as soon as I find out. If anyone feels compelled to let me know what you think it is, go ahead. It might be fun to see your replies. I will even answer your old wives tale questions if you have any.