A Healthy Baby and the Name Game

Last Friday we had the big ultrasound. You know, the one where they measure the head and look at the heart and all that jazz. The appointment went very well and we had the most entertaining ultrasound tech out there. We were all laughing so hard she had to stop many times because either she forgot what she was doing or I was laughing too hard for her to get the correct measurements. At the end of the ultrasound she said "oh wait! I forgot to look at the heart!" Only a minor problem. During the appointment she also managed to misspell Colin AND Connor and call Connor Colin and vise verse. Impressive. Oh yeah, and her in-laws were coming in to town that weekend and she was none too happy about that. Anyway, she was pretty funny and I thought about asking for her number because I can imagine she would be really fun to hang out with, but I figured that might be weird.

Annnyyywwaaaayyyy, baby looked great!!! He is definitely a he (a nice change from the "it's a boy!" "it's a girl" "no, it's a boy" experience we had with Connor) and he was kicking and moving like crazy. He was also opening and closing his mouth (apparently drinking amniotic fluid. Am I the only one who didn't know they drink the amniotic fluid??) a bunch and it looked like he was trying to talk to us. Pretty cute. He measured a week ahead again, but most likely I'm not further along than we thought, he's just probably a big boy. Sigh. He weighs about 1 pound right now. I am 21 weeks now and feel about 35 weeks so this last 1/2 could be interesting.

As far as the name goes, we're back to the drawing board on that one. I know, I know, we were so set on Colin. But, since we have started telling people the name (note that we've gotten no negative reactions to the name, so that has nothing to do with it) we've realized that frequently people a) mispronounce it (think Colin Powell) b) misspell it (nobody can really decide if Colin or Collin is the correct way) and c) mix up the names Connor and Colin already (including me. The other day I was yelling at the cat and I said "Connor, Colin, I mean COSMO, get down!"). In light of all these recent developments I think we're not going to go with Colin. Names in the running are Liam and Nolan, but we haven't really decided. And no offense, but I'm not looking for name input here, just sharing where we are with the name:)And, I wanted all of you who are currently embroidering things for my unborn son to hold off on the name:).

So that's where we are with baby. Connor is still super cute with "our baby" and he likes to give my belly kisses. The other day he was "listening" to what the baby was doing in my belly and Dan got a text so his phone chimed and Connor said "did you hear that??? That was the baby!!" Pretty funny.

Loves to all (from me and Liam/Nolan/Collin/Colin/Ichabod/Bartholomew/etc).