We have a name!

Her name will now be:

Bethany Gray

We're excited about it.  We realized later that means they'll both have the same initials, just different orders.  (Gregory Bruce).  Elizabeth is my maternal grandmother's middle name and Gray is my paternal great-grandmother's maiden name.

I just wasn't sold on the Nora "Nibe" part.  I loved "Beth" and it's always been one of my favorite names, but Greg said we can't name her Beth because we know someone named Beth.  I reminded him of his flawed logic given the name of our son, but apparently that's different.

I'm heading to bed, it's been a long couple of weeks of getting Bruce to go to sleep.  We went from having the "put him in bed, sing a song, close the door and he sleeps 12 hours" child to the "screams in his bed, doesn't sleep more than a few hours, sometimes climbs out" child.  It has NOT been fun.  It all started with those stupid molars.  I think we're finally making headway, but bedtime is definitely far from an easy process.  It's been taking around an hour to hour and a half to get him to sleep and naps have been about 20-30 minutes.  He whines all the time that he's tired, but he just won't sleep.  We put up blackout curtains and a noise maker/night light in his room.  That helped last night so hopefully it will continue.  We were contemplating moving him to his big boy bed, but now we're just waiting.  I told Greg, worse comes to worse, I'm fine with buying another crib for baby #2, I need sleep! :-)

Any suggestions/ recommendations/ commiserating is welcome.

Freezer cooking class

Don't know how many of you like to "freezer cook", but its one of my favorite ways to "cook".  I tend to do MUCH better when I have a freezer full of meals or half meals.  There are far fewer McDonald's drive through runs when I can pop something out of the freezer and into the oven.

I ran across this website where she's offering a free freezer cooking class.  I don't know what to expect from it, but it intrigues me and its FREE! :-)

Just thought I'd pass it along to anyone else that may be interested.

www.FreshFromTheFreezer.com

Stay tuned

The baby name is likely changing! We're not 100% sure what its changing to...that's still being discussed! If this was a boy we knew exactly what the name would be, and since I was so sure it was a boy, we didn't spend as much time on the girl name. So, stay tuned!

Also, my dr. appt. went great on Friday.  I know I say it every time, but I seriously love my dr. so much!  I was talking about the nausea and how I freaked out Sunday thinking I'd left my meds in Abilene and how I was going to have to wait until Monday and she gave me her personal cell number and told me I can call her or text her if I have a problem, that she's happy to help!

Also, Greg got to feel baby girl yesterday.  Just wanted to document that because I couldn't remember when Greg could feel Bruce.  So at almost 20 weeks Greg was able to feel her wiggling around.  It also dawned on me the other day that I'm over half-way done!  Can't believe it, I know she'll be here in no time!  I also get to have another US on Friday.  When I went in at 18 weeks she wouldn't move into the right position to get all the pictures they needed.  Specifically she wouldn't move so the tech could measure her spine.  So I get to go have another US Friday to check it out, also this week I'm supposed to go in and do the gestational diabetes test.  Yay....

It's a...

GIRL!

I know I put it on FB, but I forget that not everyone looks on there.  Plus I wanted to capture it on the blog too.  We went last Friday and had the big ultrasound.  I was absolutely sure it was a boy.  I really have no reason why.  This pregnancy has been completely different, but I always just thought I was going to have all boys!  I also had a dream the night before about all my boys playing together and it was so vivid that I was just positive.  I totally didn't believe the tech at first.

It didn't really hit me for a few days that this one is a girl, but once I started shopping it became super real! :-)  I definitely already started the clothing collection and here's hoping my SIL wants to pass some of her hand me downs this way too since my niece dresses super cute!

Things are going well.  I'm still taking my nausea medicine most days, but I have been keeping significantly more food down lately.  Although, sorry to anyone who visited the "Staples" parking lot last Friday or the Chicken Express parking lot last Sunday...that was not pretty.  I have also officially gained a pound now so hopefully the dr will be happy when I go in Friday for an appt. 

Things are progressing right along and we're super excited about it all.  We have picked a name out and we're happy to share: Nora Elizabeth to go by Nora Beth.  Nora is just a name we like and Elizabeth is my grandmother's middle name.