Plans for the baby shower are starting to take shape. It's looking like the Albany one will be on Sat Nov 13th.
Hopefully all the new yorkers will make it so we can have a "Thanksgiving" and the two families will get to meet.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
You have a middle name!!
Here is the text message conversation your father and I had yesterday evening:
Dad: I kinda just want to tell people what she is lolz We held onto it for 36 hours
Mom: There are definitely some people I want to tell! Let's tell people in person but let the Facebook world wonder
Dad: Hahah
Mom: It's way more fun to tell people in person anyway
Dad: Claudia Mae Miller
Mom: Claudia Grace Miller it's old school lolz
Dad: Grace is good
Mom: Yah? I heard it today thought it sounded nice
Dad: Haha I might sometimes refer to her as Grace
Mom: You like it that much? Sweet. It has been decided via text. She can pick which name to go by :)
Dad: Haha ClaudiaMiller.blogspot.com
Mom: I am so overflowing wth love for you right now it's disgusting
Dad: That's gross
Dad: I kinda just want to tell people what she is lolz We held onto it for 36 hours
Mom: There are definitely some people I want to tell! Let's tell people in person but let the Facebook world wonder
Dad: Hahah
Mom: It's way more fun to tell people in person anyway
Dad: Claudia Mae Miller
Mom: Claudia Grace Miller it's old school lolz
Dad: Grace is good
Mom: Yah? I heard it today thought it sounded nice
Dad: Haha I might sometimes refer to her as Grace
Mom: You like it that much? Sweet. It has been decided via text. She can pick which name to go by :)
Dad: Haha ClaudiaMiller.blogspot.com
Mom: I am so overflowing wth love for you right now it's disgusting
Dad: That's gross
just so you know
One of your toys woke us up last night. I think they refer to that as "foreshadowing"
it was your talking food fridge : ) I had no idea how to turn it off so I had to take the battery out of it. You better enjoy it when you play with it!
I'm sure thats the first of many times something related to you (or you )will wake us up. But we still love you just the same.
it was your talking food fridge : ) I had no idea how to turn it off so I had to take the battery out of it. You better enjoy it when you play with it!
I'm sure thats the first of many times something related to you (or you )will wake us up. But we still love you just the same.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
We had a lump with a thump!
Gestational age estimate: 7 weeks 1 day, based on size. Yay- there's a heartbeat!!!
The day we found out...
May 12, 2010: After I had a regular doctor's appointment and was absolutely, unequivocally, positively convinced that my exhaustion and nausea was due to some unknown illness- the doctor encouraged me to pee on a stick. I refused to believe that I could be pregnant and was giving her all the reasons why I was absolutely not pregnant but just sick with some mysterious ailment. She said to me a few times, "Stranger things have happened!" I chalked her sunny demeanor up to the fact that she was nearly nine months pregnant herself, a fact which made me consciously stop myself from hating her out of jealousy for her having what I had so recently lost with our miscarriage just 6 weeks earlier.
I had a stock pile of pregnancy tests and ovulation predictor kits. We were not trying to get pregnant, as we were so devastated by the miscarriage... rather I was trying to better familiarize myself with my cycles and I could buy the stuff for free with the flex card I got from work. I think that in reality we both wanted a child so badly; we were just terrified to go there again so soon... and on purpose. We discussed our timetable often and agreed we'd definitely do it again within a year or so... to give ourselves time to heal and time to prepare for another adventure into the unknown.
So I came home and I peed on a stick. And I got two lines. Chris Smith was sitting in the living room waiting for me to finish getting ready so that we could head to the HSBC Arena to watch wrestling with Fletcher... I brought the test into the bedroom and sat on the bed,
grinning like a fool. Mark came in to grab something and asked why I was sitting there. I handed him the test. He seemed shocked and asked if it meant I was pregnant. I said "yup!" with a toothy grin. He smirked and said something to the effect of "oh reeeeally," his seemingly typical response for something he'd rather ponder over for a bit.
We went to wrestling with the boys in a stupor. We texted back and forth about it while sitting next to one another so that we could process this news without alerting our companions as to what had happened. Mark seemed to be able to hold it together well enough... he is always better at composing himself than I am in the midst of extreme emotion. I couldn't stop beaming.
I had a good feeling about this one.
I had a stock pile of pregnancy tests and ovulation predictor kits. We were not trying to get pregnant, as we were so devastated by the miscarriage... rather I was trying to better familiarize myself with my cycles and I could buy the stuff for free with the flex card I got from work. I think that in reality we both wanted a child so badly; we were just terrified to go there again so soon... and on purpose. We discussed our timetable often and agreed we'd definitely do it again within a year or so... to give ourselves time to heal and time to prepare for another adventure into the unknown.
So I came home and I peed on a stick. And I got two lines. Chris Smith was sitting in the living room waiting for me to finish getting ready so that we could head to the HSBC Arena to watch wrestling with Fletcher... I brought the test into the bedroom and sat on the bed,
grinning like a fool. Mark came in to grab something and asked why I was sitting there. I handed him the test. He seemed shocked and asked if it meant I was pregnant. I said "yup!" with a toothy grin. He smirked and said something to the effect of "oh reeeeally," his seemingly typical response for something he'd rather ponder over for a bit.We went to wrestling with the boys in a stupor. We texted back and forth about it while sitting next to one another so that we could process this news without alerting our companions as to what had happened. Mark seemed to be able to hold it together well enough... he is always better at composing himself than I am in the midst of extreme emotion. I couldn't stop beaming.
I had a good feeling about this one.
Boy or girl
some people want boys and some people want girls. Lets say yer a guy and you want a boy and you find out it's a girl. Look at it this way, the girl will be a miniature version of your girlfriend/wife and you think she's cool right?
Day 2
this is the first blog from my cell phone. I downloaded Blog Booster for WebOS to do this. I've got some baby books to read.
Monday, August 23, 2010
From Magick to Claudia
Today Mary and I found out that MAgick will be know as Claudia when she arrives in a few months. I was hoping for a boy but the fact that it's a girl allows me to pay tribute to the First Lady of my life, my mom.
That's important too.
Good things can happen on August 23rd :)
That's important too.
Good things can happen on August 23rd :)
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