For the Record

This post is mostly for recording purposes since this blog is more than just a way to communicate to friends and family, it is an ongoing record of what is going on in our lives and hopefully someday I will scrounge up the dough to have it printed into a book.

I often look back to posts about being pregnant with Lincoln and I really cherish this blog. I would have never written so much in such detail without it and I am loving it now! This pregnancy is d.i.f.f.e.r.e.n.t.!! I must say I was certain this baby was a girl because of how different I feel. Now that I know it is a little boy I realize how "different" each pregnancy is, as people have told me time and time again. I crave different things (tonight for dinner I had tater tots and cottage cheese), I have had headaches, on and off morning sickness, acne and a couple of other negatives that I didn't have with Linc but let me tell you this time around has had it's perks. I have had only a couple of bouts with heart burn and with Linc that was the killer, well that and the continuous morning sickness that lasted about 4 months. He was a toughy :0) I just read a post I did last May when I was at about the same point and I wrote that I had just slept for 17 hours... WHAT!!?? Man, I would kill to just get a good 1 hour nap! I also just read that we were heavy in the process of determining a name, Hezekiah Chesterfield and Scooter Libby were among the recent developments in June of '07. At 24 weeks I wrote that my belly was barely there but let me reassure you that at nearly 20 weeks the baby bump has emerged and is comparable to my 24 week bump with Lincoln. So I am about a month ahead of where I was. At 32 weeks with Lincoln we began our pregnancy classes at the Hospital... that was an adventure! I ran into the labor and delivery nurse that massaged my butt during the "comfort measures for labor" class at the concert last week. Small town living, nothing better ;0) At 32 weeks we had also decided on Lincoln for the first his first name... that gives me about 12 weeks to figure it out if we stick to that timeline, not sure that will happen. At 36 weeks I was miserable, felt like a blimp and couldn't sleep. Can't wait ;0) It wasn't until the 37th week that I realized a woman actually carries a baby for 10 months, I'll admit I am a little slow. Nearly 20 days later my little man was born. That's when the adventure really began! I am sure I will be coming and visiting my archives often following the birth of our second son, just to see what's new and different with him. He will have a totally new personality and a totally new outlook on life... I just can't wait!!!