Mar

The word is out! Baby #2 for the Kiriths is going to be a boy. Now we just need to come up with something as special and as cools for his name as “Samara Rachel” is for Sami. After seeing the ultrasound, our goal was to come up with our name before we slept that night. We failed.

But we are honing in on some good ideas. As with Sami, we are going to try to keep the name a secret until after the birth. Nonetheless, we need a “working name” to tell people when they ask. With Sami one of my favorites was “Polly Esther” because Leslie was hot on Esther as a name and I wasn’t, and this was a good way nix the Esther idea. It worked! ?

For Little Boy-to-be Kirith, my current fave to fill this “working name” role is “Goliath Richard” 10 points to the first person (who we haven’t already explained this to) to guess why I like this working name so much

  

Mar

Wow – I’m going to have a son! I thought I was not sure about what I was expecting, but I was really surprised when the ultrasound tech said “it’s a boy”. So, Craig was right (I *hate* it when that happens! %-). But, so were most of the people that voted in our poll – xx% guessed that we would have a boy this time.

The ultrasound itself was amazing – Vanderbilt has one of those new fancy “3D” ultrasound machines, and we could see the baby in so much detail it was like watching a sci-fi movie or something. We could actually see the baby’s individual bones, and at one point she showed us the blood flowing in and out of the uterus. The technology was very impressive. We’re going to try to put some clips of the ultrasound video up on the web page, so stay tuned.

Sami was feeling better, and so she did get to go to her last day of school. I was very glad for her that she got to go to her party, and very relieved for us that we didn’t have to take her with us to the ultrasound – we had to wait almost 2 hours, and she would’ve been *very* bored and agitated.

WOW – I’m having a son!!! I just can’t get over it…

  

Mar

Yes, I’m obsessing, I know. I still can’t figure out what my “gut” is telling me. Half the time I think it’s a boy, the other half I think it’s a girl. From the poll we’re taking, it looks like more people think boy than girl. But, that was true when we had Sami, too.

Made some more progress on the web page today (yay! , but not too much, because Sami is sick. She has some nasty intestinal virus – I’ll spare you the details, but it has not been fun. The doctor had us put her on this nightmarish schedule where she had to go an hour without vomitting before she could have *any* fluids at all, and then she could only have 1 ounce. Every 15 minutes that she kept it down, we could add another ounce. But if she threw up – back to square one. She was so pitiful – every time we would put her down she would go in the kitchen and cry and reach for her sippy cups. It almost broke my heart! Even Craig had a hard time dealing with it. When we would give her the ounces of fluid, she would practically inhale them, and just couldn’t understand why we wouldn’t give her more. She had a very confused look on her face – it’s like she was thinking “They’re supposed to love me, why are they torturing me?”. Suffice it to say – an awful two days for everyone in our household.

Tomorrow is supposed to be her last day of playschool – next week we’re switching her over to a nanny. Her class was planning a big party for her, but it looks like she won’t be able to go. But, at least she’ll get her first view of her new brother/sister at the same time we do!

Speaking of which, our appointment is at 9:15 a.m., so I should probably get some sleep…

  

Mar

We have our ultrasound tomorrow!!! We are *so* excited! I’m trying to probe my deep inner feelings to see what I *truly* think about what the baby will be. But – nothing; I just don’t have a good feel. Craig is absolutely certain it’s a boy, but I’m still not sure why (when asked, he says he alternates). I hope he’s not disappointed if it’s another girl!

Unfortunately, Sami is sick right now. She’s had a stomach virus all week. We had to miss our seder because she just wasn’t up to going. Tomorrow was also supposed to be her last day of daycare; I will be disappointed for her if she can’t go, because they’re having a little going-away party for her. Even if she is still sick, we might try to take her over for a little while in the afternoon, if she’s feeling up to it, so she can say goodbye.

  

Mar

I’ve been doing a fair bit of work on the web page, as you might’ve noticed, and also a lot of work getting our scrapbooks in order. Well, really getting the stuff that will *eventually* go in the scrapbooks in order. It is a big sense of accomplishment – almost like I have a prayer (albeit a small one) of actually pulling my life together. Who knows, maybe soon I’ll finish unpacking the last few boxes that are still lying around from when we moved! %-)

One of the things I’m most glad/relieved about, as well as proud of, is that I *finally* finished Sami’s birth story. I first wrote it down a few days after she was born, then kind of forgot about it in the aftermath of becoming a parent. I went back when she was six months old and added some details I had forgotten, and, again, essentially forgot about it. One of my friends recently asked if she could read it; plus, we are getting really close to knowing whether we’re having a boy or a girl this time. So it was very important to me to get it “done”. It’s pretty long, but I hope people will have a look at it. I have a different perspective on it now than I did right afterward, but I tried to be true both to how I felt at the time, and how I feel now. I realized in going back over it that a lot of Sami’s first moments are missing, because of the c-section – Craig went with her after she was born, but I couldn’t. So I have wrangled from him a promise to write his own version of the birth story. He says he will do it “soon”. %-)

I am very excited about the ultrasound on Friday. I wavered back and forth with wanting to know what we’re having, and not wanting to know. But, in the end, my curiosity will get the best of me. Maybe for our third child, I will want to be surprised, but this time we will find out. We’ve had an early ultrasound already, so we’ve seen the baby’s heart beating, etc. But it’s almost like it’s not realy until we know what we’re having. Of course, part of the reason is that Craig refuses to discuss names until after the ultrasound – somehow the experience of being pregnant and bonding with the baby becomes more intense for me once I know what to call the baby (at least that happened last time).

I’m just rambling now – time for sleep.

  

Mar

Ha! Puke (Duke) lost tonight!!! No repeat for them this time, thanks to Indiana (who, by the way, have not gotten the respect they deserve this year). I was so excited, I was dancing all around the living room, trying not to yell too loudly since I didn’t want to wake up Sami. For those of you who don’t know, I ***HATE*** Duke’s basketball team. Nothing but a bunch of arrogrant punk asses! As an example, Indiana’s coach said that yesterday during the pre-game conference between the two teams, one of the Puke players asked Coach K what time they played on Saturday. Well, now they won’t be playing any more until fall! No one deserves it more. Just thought I’d share…

In other news, Sami’s new thing is saying “uh-oh”. She loves to say it so much that she drops things on purpose, just so she can say “uh-oh”. It *is* very cute, except when she drops things like her bowl of spaghetti-o’s, or Craig’s open beer can…