Week 34 check up

Here's Lynnell waiting for the doctor. It seems like every time we come to the doctors office, we sit there and wait for 20 minutes. The whole time we can hear the doctor talking just outside in the hall. It's quite irritating.

Ah. Parenting Classes

Well, we only have a couple of parenting classes left, but tonight was by far the most informative so far. The first half not so much; because it was all about breast feeding and how I should hold my baby, what red flags to look for...stuff like that. Although, I will admit I learned things that I should probably know. Like if I lay around without a shirt on, the baby will eventually try to breast feed off of me. Not cool. I also learned that if male nipples are stimulated enough that they too can produce milk. Now, I don't know if this is true, but it did make me remember a guy from high school.

His name was Tim Bush. He was "the coolest guy/star football player" in our high school (or so he thought). Well, one day we were all standing around in the locker room after PE and out of the blue he started talking about how he could make his nipples produce fluid by rubbing them. Well, at that point the rest of us lost it. There was teasing at first, but it quickly subsided because, after all, he was Tim Bush. Stupid story, but the whole male-nipple-leakage thing made me remember that.

Anyways, the pregnancy is going great. Lynnell is measuring about 4" bigger than normal, but after our ultrasound we found out everything is going just fine. She's only big because she's short and the baby doesn't have any vertical room to grow, so she's growing out. She (Lynnell) still looks great though.

IT'S A GIRL!!!!

Yep, you heard me right.

I'm really excited. When we called everyone, it seemed like people were a little hesitant to ask if I was excited. I think they all were secretly thinking that I would be disappointed if it was a girl. Well, just for the record, I'm not! I think my brother may have been a little disappointed, but I can never tell. Although, he did reassure me that Lego does make sets for girls ... and they are pink.

So, then it came time to pick a name. We (that means I) have had a boys name picked out for quite some time now. It would officially be Joe #4 since I'm Joe #3. With that said, I've never really thought about girl names. Frankly, it's kind of weird to try to think of girl names from a guys point of view. I think it's because in my head I associate certain names with certain people, and they aren't always good associations.

So, I told Lynnell that the name was her department. Then she broke down and wanted to know why I didn't want to have a say in my daughters name. I back tracked a little and explained my point of view. She informed me that it's as much my responsibility as it was hers.

After weeks of deliberation, we finally found one. Izadera Kay Cote. Nell is pretty excited because she wants to call her Izzie. She has even bought big wooden letters and painted them so that they can be hung up in the babies room (I'm assuming so I won't forget her name).