Name ideas from our SIX-year-old friend Jackson:
"Angela" for a girl
"Irving" for a boy
(happy birthday, Jackson!)
My littlest sister Lilo has insisted twice that the name should be "Bob" if it's a boy.
This is the same littlest sister who used the word "boobs" in conversation a few times recently, much to our amusement. One of the times, in a story involving boobs, she clarified, "like she has", pointing at yours truly. WOW. And we all know that kids don't lie, right? Hey, I'll take it where I can get it.
The project of this weekend has been to make sense of all of the wonderful gifts we received last weekend. I did a lot of sorting the day after the shower, but nothing could be put away yet because we were still waiting on the changing table and armoire. So everything went into the crib, see below, to allow for floor and maneuvering space for Nate and his dad to lug those pieces upstairs and into the room. And I do mean lug.
I enjoyed a fabulous Friday night with Aunt Punchy, watching the season premier of the show we got hooked on last year, Men in Trees. We made an event of it by adding the crucial accompanying activity of beading. Which of course involved further organizing my inventory of beads, and disassembling projects that I've determined I will simply not return to. I tell myself that this act helped to clear some space in my mind for new beginnings, ensuring that the next time I have an hour to spare and the creative energy to bead, I won't have to sort through any pesky clutter in order to get started. I consider bead organization to be a couple steps above cleaning the coffee maker on the OTP list.
Sylvester birthdays;
Aunt Kara on October 9th,
Grammie Debbie on October 13th,
and an early 90th birthday celebration for Great Grandpa Ralph last night, as he'll be at his winter home in Florida when his actual birthday comes in December.
It was fun seeing the Sylvester side of the family, since we don't get together with them as often as we do other families. A fun bunch. We were reminded that we'll be having the first great grandchild in the family - no pressure, right? So of course there was plenty of baby related talk amongst the cousins (at the "kids" end of the table). And predictions about the odds of our child coming out "normal", given the gene pool we're starting with. And last night only represented one quarter of the genes that are being passed on to Tot. Should be interesting.
My cousin-in-law Mike asked if we could do him a favor and let him know the name and actual date of delivery so he could finish up his needlepoint that he's been working on for the baby's room. Well Mike, just for you, I've hidden those secrets in this blog entry, in encrypted computer code that only someone with your technological savvy could figure out. Just don't tell anyone else...
Okay, off to fold my first load of baby laundry...
*SIGH*
*dreamy look on face at the thought of handling all those soft and tiny onesies and booties and receiving blankets and-*
It WILL always be this cute of a task, right?
Right?!?
-Nicky and Nate
36 weeks 4 days
or, if you were little baby Nate, only a week and a half or so before you took your parents by surprise by deciding you were ready to be born a couple of weeks early.
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