The Name Game

I'll tell you I think this must be the most difficult part of this pregnancy......coming up with a NAME!!!! I've now bought two books that together contain 160,000 baby names. I just can't find one I'm in love with that someone I know doesn't already have. I mean sure there are going to be other people out there with the same name as my child but I'm trying to be original yet not freakishly weird. Thank God I won't even consider going with any of Uncle Bradley's suggestions......Gunner? Darvin? I mean can you imagine the torment my child would get if his name was Darvin Garvin. I told Bradley I really appreciated his interest but not no but heck no. I've recruited everyone I know to help me out on this one. Every suggestion I get just doesn't stick though. Certainly we always have "IT" to fall back on though, right? Lance and me have a hard time agreeing. He loves my middle name; LeAnn. Mama, no offense, its cool but its just not what I want to name my child. Lance has always said that if he has a son he'll want to name it after his Dad. I understand that and that's cool. However, Lance's dad's name was Steve Adrian Garvin. I just can't do Steve. Sorry to all the Steve's out there but I can't do it. And Adrian.....well one of my best good friends just had a little boy on December 1, 2008....yep, you guessed it.....his name is Adrian. Can you see us having cook outs together and one of us yelling for our son and they both come running? That's not gonna work either. It's a family name. Lance's Dad and Grandpa both had the middle name Adrian. I'll definitely take Adrian over Steve any day. But, it looks like that will have to be a middle name in the event that we have a boy. So its looking like "It Adrian Garvin" is what we have for a boy. Girls? There's only one that I've found that I think I can live with that Lance is okay with too.....Olivia. It's classy but not overused.....I think. (There's one other one that Lance will never let me do; Eliana. Pronounced Ellie Auna.) So its looking like Olivia It Garvin for a girl. You people need to get involved here. We need baby names!

12 week checkup & catch up

We went to see Dr. B on Monday. She says everything is good. I've gained (cough) 5 pounds so far. My dear husband on the other hand, he's gained about 10......and headed to 15 if he doesn't stop using me being pregnant for an excuse to eat weird things. Late Monday night, just before bed we were sitting on the sofa and I looked over at him and he laughed. Well, you guys know me. My response to that was "What the hell are you laughing at?" He said, "You're never gonna believe what I'm eating." I should have never asked him to explain. That nuckle head had mixed the REST of the orange sherbert with strawberry cake icing and covered it in caramel ice cream shell. EWWWWWW!!!!!! I thought I was the one that is supposed to have weird cravings. As long as I get my once a week Japanese food fix, I'm good. Oh, there was that one time that Lance came home to find me eating pickles with ketchup and drinking the pickle juice. Now you may think the weirdest part of that is the pickles and ketchup.....not for me. That's something I used to do as a child but haven't done in years. But I've never been a pickle juice drinker. Man was it good that night.