1. Our firstborn will be a son!! Which means our subsequent children will have a wonderful big brother to protect them, love them, scare off bullies/bad boyfriends, etc.
2. We have had a boy name picked out for YEARS, so now we get to use it!! Wanna know what it is? Well you’ll just have to hang on, I’ll get to that in a minute.
3. Sam’s hopes & dreams of coaching little league are THAT much closer to becoming a reality. In a few years. Oh man, I hope I’m a good soccer mom…I really hated getting up super early on Saturdays and standing out on cold, windy soccer fields. But again, I’m sure it’s TOTALLY different when it’s your own child playing and not your annoying little brothers (no offense, Cody & Corey! :))
4. I finally get to start on decorating the nursery!! I’ve been itching to get that going pretty much since I found out I was pregnant, and now I finally get to pick everything out and get started. The only problem is that I’m so incredibly indecisive right now, I’m having trouble making a decision about ANYTHING. Or am I? Maybe I’m not. I don’t know. Yeah, I am. I think. Or not.
The ultrasound was so much fun, because we finally got to see our baby for the first time when he actually LOOKS like a baby, and not just a jellybean in a black hole (Wyatt, you’ll see what I mean in several years when I show you that first ultrasound picture from when you were 7 weeks in utero!) Did you catch that? We are naming him Wyatt Owen! And yes, we realize that this means his initials will be WOW. People keep asking us if we did that on purpose and the answer is no—we just loved the two names together and the “W” in Ward just happens to create a word. So, in July we will welcome our little WOW baby!!
I feel like I should probably post a few more entries from way back in November when Wyatt was just a little speck, because I’m getting pretty far behind on that and need to start focusing on the here & now pretty soon! (I’m having enough trouble as it is updating the blog in the PRESENT tense!) So here you go:
November 10, 2009 (3:58 PM)
Dear Baby,
Hello my little sesame seed! You are now a sesame seed instead of a poppy seed…congratulations! I’m so proud of you for the huge strides you’ve made in the last week. I wanted to tell you that I’m anxiously waiting to hear your precious little heartbeat on the monitor in a few weeks at our first appointment, but everything I’ve read said that THIS is the week that your sweet little heart will actually start beating! So, I’m trying to be extra careful about what I eat, making sure I get plenty of sleep, and drinking loads of water to give you the healthiest little environment possible to give you a healthy heart start on life. It would help a little bit if you quit trying to get me to eat a bunch of junk instead of fruits/veggies, but for now I am bigger and I’m the mom so I win. (Okay, you win sometimes…) And did I just say “because I’m the mom” already??? Get ready to hear that over and over for the next 18 years …
Love you, love you, love you, love you,
Mommy
November 12, 2009 (10:44 PM)
Dear Uterus,
Please accept this as my formal plea to you to quit waking me up in the night with your growth pains. I am all for you growing and expanding like you need to, but if you could cool it with the cramping, that would be awesome. I apologize for what we’ve done to you…I know the space that has been empty for the past 27 years has suddenly been invaded by a tiny alien (the size of a sesame seed, might I add), but you two are just going to have to figure out a way to get along for the next 8 months. 8 MONTHS. Wow. That’s crazy…I just realized my self-calculated due date (thanks to www.babycenter.com) is exactly 8 months from today! Anyway, I digress…
What I really want to say to you is thank you for being there for me through the past 27 years, and thank you for being there for me now when I need you the most. I look forward to the time we will spend with each other in new ways as you become the home of all my future children, and the decades and decades we have to spend together. I am doing everything I know to make you as comfortable as possible as you grow to 1000 times your original size, but if you could just keep the cramping to a minimum, that would sure make my life a lot easier. Especially right now at a point in my life when I freak out at EVERY little ache and pain.
Keep up the good work (just a little less painfully, if possible),
Crislyn
November 12, 2009 (10:49 PM)
Dear Google,
Thank you for being so google-icious. Although you’ve done your fair share of freaking me out as I look up EVERY little question I have about this pregnancy so far, you’ve also done a great job of showing me really neat things about what’s going on inside of me, how cute the maternity clothes at gap.com are, where to look for adorable baby bedding, and what that little nugget is doing inside me as I type this. Although I don’t fully appreciate all the foods that you listed as possible “gas causers”, (all my favorite foods?! REALLY?!), I do appreciate you for the vat of knowledge that you are.
Just a click away,
Crislyn
And the fuzzy, taken-on-my-iPhone, 18 week belly (sort of) picture to leave you with. Sorry in advance that I look so gross in this picture, I can't actually believe I'm posting this...
