Ingram Family

Well finally .. maybe because JJ has made it home .. a couple of names seem to appeal to me. What is hillarious though is that I seem to be taking a lot of heat for the names because other people don't like them. JJ and I both like the names and well I guess it's just too bad for everybody else ....

So for a boy we're thinking Joey (of course we have to name him Joseph but will call him Joey) so Joseph David for a boy.

And for a girl .. still Joey .. not short for anything just Joey. I mean come on hasn't anyone ever watched Dawsons Creek! I like Joey even for a girl .. which is just strange because it is the first girl name yet that I have liked. As for middle names we were thinking after JJ's mom maybe. I like Aimee for a middle name, after of course Amy but with a different spelling.

In the end I'm hoping for a boy for naming sake in order to not create too much controversy but I think Joey it is!

Geez I really am running out of things to talk about.

JJ is gone to sea so I'm stuck home alone. Well the kids and Amy and Joe are there .. so not like totally alone, just at night .. actually not even then because one of the girls always seem to make their way in by morning. Ok well he's gone and it still sucks. Nobody quite understands my need to watch Birth Stories the way he does and nobody ever watches with me now that he's gone. Life is just very sad and lonely! He's home Sunday though ... I should be able to hold it together until Sunday. Just five more sleeps ......

The baby isn't doing much of anything. I lost four pounds at my last visit. The doc asked if I needed some medication to keep me from being sick but I really haven't been all that sick. I often feel ill and just don't eat and I think that's my biggest problem. She said we won't worry about it yet. I'm pretty sure I lost all the weight from the exercise of shopping with Tracey and her sisters!

Wow look at that a whole comment!! Well atleast I know that there is atleast one person out there who likes me. Although Donna has to like me she is part of the family is still counts in my books! I'm surprised though that Uncle Paul and Auntie Cheryl never told you guys I was pregnant. They certainly knew .. then again I guess I am not the sun the world revolves around! One of our very first faint positive tests were done in your very bathroom! I say one of because there were probably about seven or eight taken over a three or four day period.

On to baby news. I got to hear the baby's heartbeat at the doctor's office yesterday for the first time. She said the heartbeat was around 145 bpm. I told JJ that and at first he was happy to hear it was beating then when I emailed him 5 old wives tales sites about gender prediction they told him 4 out of 5 times that we were having a girl .. I haven't heard from him since! I'm sure he'll be okay eventually .. but imagine adding one more girl to the mix, he is already severly outnumbered. This will make Kelsey happy though she is hoping for a girl while Cait is hoping for a boy.

Well for some reason I'm having a hard time updating these days ... lack of things to talk about perhaps, lack of time because I should be working on my paper .. the baby seems to be doing absolutely nothing exciting at all!! Yeah it's the last one.

I'm sure once I get a little further along that time will start to pass a little quicker and I'll try to slow it down but right now this is just killer. Every time I get gas I wonder could it be a flutter .. then I fart and I no longer have to wonder .. well I wonder about how I'm going to blame it on one the other people in the room but I don't wonder as to what caused the bubbly feeling.

I'm going shopping this weekend with Amy and Tracey and Tracey's sister **wish I could insert names here but for the life of me it escapes me** ... very excited. I really don't do much these days so it'll be nice to go out and do something. JJ is of course at sea once again so it makes my girls weekend easier to pull off. Geez I hope I don't have to pee on the way .. atleast not too often!

Cait decided the other day that whoever this baby is he better not be thinking he's just going to come in and try taking her baby status .. she doesn't mind sharing it but certainly she will be the baby forever because well I always told her she could be. This of course is very true. I always tell her she'll forever be my baby .. and she will .. mostly because I never saw myself having another one. She said he may as well just stay in there forever if he thinks that he's going to take her place! I just didn't have the heart to tell her that no matter how hard I tried to keep it in there forever for her it just wasn't going to work.

.. and some stubby arms actually ... but these I believe will grow. I hope. It was a lot of fun finally getting a quick (I mean like 3 seconds quick) glimpse of the little grape. Looks like it might end up with dads big head ... just kidding .. I expect that to not grow as fast as the arms. I hope. The ultrasound tech only let us have a quick peek because she said it was bad to send too much energy to the baby, but that we will get a better look at our next ultrasound scheduled for January 10. Without getting much chance to look, she was able to tell us everything looked great .. which is good enough for me .. even if we didn't get to see much. I think it is time to consider upgrading baby grape to maybe baby plum or baby tangerine? It is starting to get bigger now.

I got my second fetal heart monitor in .. the good one. The girls and I could detect a heartbeat, but I'm pretty sure it was mine, or like the echo of mine in my gut .. or maybe it was the baby's. I have no idea.