well, it's a ............

PENIS! Yes folks, baby boy #3. Apparently when Chad finds something he does well, he sticks with it. A little disappointed, yes but totally grateful that he looks healthy. I had some really cute girl names picked out too. I'd like to be a little unique with the name this time, but for boys I seem to keep coming back to very traditional names. We will see and so will you in May 'cause we're not tellin'! Gotta keep something a surprise.

The boys really wanted a sister, but quickly came around to the idea of a brother. I told Jack he could play tractors and trucks with his brother and Chad told him they could wrestle. Jack said, "Not when he's a little baby!" Now only if Alex could grasp that concept. I've said he's like George of Of Mice and Men who loves just a little too hard.

Totally spaced on whatever else I was going to write so I'll try to take more pictures and post some of them soon.

houston, we have movement

I'm sitting here right now after a large glass of apple juice and a granola bar (OK, two granola bars) and the baby is moving! Definitely not gas this time! I have a guess that the placenta is anterior-or in the front of the uterus-like it was with Alex since I haven't felt any movement really so far. The placenta absorbs all the kicks until the baby is large enough to kick right through it!



I have been waiting weeks for this and now all I want to do is drink the whole gallon of AJ. Not a good idea since I would like to sleep in my bed tonight, not on the toilet. So cool! I know I've done this twice before, but each time is special.



This time feels slightly different that the previous two, so there might be hope for a girl? We will see. I just really hope the baby is healthy and that's the main thing. The Internet can be an evil place when you are pregnant. You innocently enough search for baby info and you end up coming across a woman who was pregnant with two sets of identical twins at the same time (4 babies) and went into pre-term labor and lost all four babies. Great. I feel so much better. Ahhhh!! Makes my petty yearning for a girl seem pretty stupid. Healthy baby, healthy baby, healthy baby.



It's all good. No worries. I'm freaked out enough thinking about natural child birth and if Chad is going to be strong enough to get me through this. He's never yelled at me before in the almost 12 years we've been together and I have a very, very strong feeling he's going to have to get in my face and bring me back from the brink. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe he'll find his calling as a doula!



I highly doubt it!



This kid loves to dance! He/she will fit right in. I should really figure out how to load video on here because you would all pee your pants if you could see Alex and his moves! He's definitely a white boy and is totally our kid.

big boy bed

We just switched Alex over into his big boy bed a couple of weeks ago and, knock-on-wood, it's been going great.

Our plan is to move Alex into Jack's room after the baby comes, but for now to get used to it, we put a mattress on the floor in Alex's room so we can still leave the crib up. We'll probably split the bunk beds for now because Alex climbs the ladder to the top bunk but can't get back down. I'm sure we'll have plenty of falls from the top bunk over time, but I really don't want the first one to be with a two-year-old splitting his head open while I'm home alone with three children ('cause you just know that's when it would happen).

Here's a couple of shots of my guy enjoying his first nap in his new bed.

I know, the outlet right next to his head isn't optimal, but he doesn't bother it, so it's ok.

This last one is blurry, I know, but it's too cute I had to post it.