Today I saw a Sandpiper and her Sandpipettes as I was pulling into the garage at work. They were SO CUTE. I even said so aloud to the radio who just kept right on talking over me. They just mosied out of the way as I pulled around them. They were totally unafraid of the car. Amazing.

Names

I was bored a while back... way back in the 'desire' stage and we came up with some baby names. Actually they are person names but we will use one of them tok name our baby... :P

Category - Family names Arren likes: (most of them are one name from each family)
James Dwayne (supplant ; dark)
John Roy (God is good ; king)
Charles Oliver (man ; elf army/ olive tree)
Peter Eugene (rocky/ stone ; well born)


Emma Hazel (strength ; commanding authority)
Carol Janelle (freeman ; God is gracious)
RuthE Megan (Firend ; Pearl)
Laura Bethany (crown of laurels ; God's disciple)

Scott's picks:
Jared (descent)
Marcus (martial/ warlike)
Archiantus ()
Brandon (hill/ high spirited)

Katherine (pure/ unsullied)
Catrina (pure/ unsullied)
Olivia (olive tree)
Bernadette (brave)
Chloe (blooming, verdant)

Arren's (not family) picks:
Tobias (God is good)
Gareth (gentle)
Jaron(vocal)
Cody (cushion)

Bianca (white/ fair)
Marget (pearl)
Miereal ()
Ortensia (gardener)
Jael (Hebrew for high climbing)

Other Unusual Names:
Braden (open minded)
Brice (strength)
Damien (to tame)
Devlin (brave, fierce)
Landon (plain, old fashioned)
Rowan (tree with red berries)
Brandt (dignified)
Gavin (white hawk)
Johan (God is gracious)
Nigan (ahead)
Zarek (may God protect the King)
Haydenv (hedged valley)
Hamon (leader)

Zoe (life)
Aniktah () OR Anitra (gracious, fill of grace)
Ester (star)
Arabella (eagle; a hearth)
Gemma (precious stone, jewl)
Aaliyah (to ascend, highly exalted)
Nadine (hope)
Abril (open; secure, protected)
Seraphina (highest 'level' of angel)

Comments and OPINIONS are strongly encouraged!!

Nesting

I woke up dreaming about laundry rooms...

and last night I dreamed we went with the Bradey's to a cliff beach and played paintball...

Scott and I found out "we" are pregnant on May 29, 2008.

Then I made an appointment to meet with Dr. Maxi for June 5th and found out out that I was already 8 weeks and 1 day along.

So, today I am 10 weeks and 3 days. In normal language I am 2 months and 5 days pregnant. (I surprise myself to already be speaking in 'weeks', I always thought that was so confusing...) In either case I am 1/4 of the way done. Crazy!!

When we went in for our first check up with Dr. M, we got to here the heartbeat. That was so weird!!! And surreal. Hopefully when we go for our next checkup and we see it 'jumping around' it will be more real.

Other important things... the first nicknames:

squirm-er - James
human worm baby - Zim
peanut - Me
pento been - Chris and Lani
hermie - Mom and the girls

In the beginning

There was a desire.

Then counsel.

Then a suggestion.

Then a baby!

Yeah!

And then there was exhaustion, and nesting, and hormones!

Welcome to my tummy little baby.