Today's baby step in as far as getting ready for Three...

Nope, it's not a name. (HA! That's funny!)

I put the rail back on the crib.

What? no applause? ;)

Simon of course, found this process to be highly interesting and spent a good half hour playing and reading books in the newly assembled crib. LOL. He even asked me to bring in his pillow and noise machine.

...and I'm in a good place, I suppose. Not altogether uncomfortable, acid reflux here and there but not unmanageable, back to yakking multiple times a day, but I'm so used to that that it simply doesn't faze me all that much.

Looking forward to getting to 30 weeks these days because then I feel like the real countdown is on.

I've started shopping here and there for little things we need. Bought some nursing stuff at BRU last weekend because they were having a huge sale in that whole department and I had an awesome coupon. Waiting for another good set of coupons or a sale so I can get the bottles and maybe an infant seat if I can't find a decent one at the consignment stores.

This weekend will be the big clothing sort and wash.... oh how I love the tiny clothes and remembering both my big boys wearing them. :)

And yep. that's the uneventfulness happening at 23 weeks.... 17 to go!

So you know how my tickers are a day off from each other. This is all well and good... I go by the later one, which makes me 23 week tomorrow. (Yay for another week crossed off!) But today I noticed that the top ticker claims I have 99 days to go and the floaty baby ticker claims I have 120 days to go. (if you click the numbers they change to different kinds of countdowns/countups) That's kind of a strange discrepancy don't you think?

The baby's room is getting a fresh coat of paint tomorrow, which, I'm hoping will inspire me to a) name the baby and b) start working on everything else.

Should take the painters all of about an hour since the little guy's room is smaller than most peoples' walk-in closets. A fresh coat of the existing happy yellow is just what it needs. That and a good dusting and the first round of tiny clothes washed and freshly hung up in the closet. :)

I ran into my sister-in-law's mom yesterday at the spring fair and she asked me about the baby and if we were going to keep the name a secret. I explained that I do intend to keep the baby's name a secret but that so far, that has been easy because we don't even HAVE a name yet. LOL.

Sadly, it's true. I told Tom yesterday that I really think I am just going to end up taking a list to the hospital and noodling on it there while I'm in labor because truly, we are no further with names than we were five months ago. He said he thinks if it's gotten that bad, we need to just start at square one. So, I started perusing more baby name sites this morning for inspiration...

Also, Tom has taken to calling the baby "Baby TBD".

In other news, WOW we have an active one this time. And keep in mind his kicks and punches are even muffled a bit by the extra padding of the front placenta and I really only feel his moves on ONE SIDE because it's situated both up front and to the right, so I'm only feeling the half of it. And let me tell you, this baby is a MOVER. He especially likes the hours between 9pm. and 11p.m. (yawn) So much for Three being the most laid back of my children.

Labels: names

The green shirt was unintentional... but happy Earth Day anyway! ;)

Labels: 22 weeks, belly pics

Braxton. Hicks.

Yep. Right on schedule.