Baby Names

I know we still have plenty of time to veto names on our list and to come up with new ones. Here are our top 6 names that have been through our vetoes (in no particular order): Matthew, William, Patrick, Nicholas, Benjamin, and Declan. Even though William is on both sides of our family, I may end up vetoing it because it's number 3 on the top 100 names for the last few years (and I personally feel like everyone is naming their baby boy "William"). Only time will tell. In Chris' family, there's a tradition of the first born to take the first name of the father as their middle name but because we had Penelope first we don't have to use his name as the middle name. We'll see if we do or not. I feel like we have a good list of names and no pressure to look at more or think about it further until the baby is about to come.

Surprisingly, there are only 2 names that were vetoed by Chris. The names we're not going to use are Timothy (because of Tim Cook) and Robert (I guess Chris new a Robert...).

The baby has been moving around a lot these last few days. Today, he was moving in ways that you could see on my belly instead of me just feeling the movement inside. I guess he's just excited that we're at the halfway point today. Plus, I was talking about cheesecake and mini eclairs to Chris and he just moved all around fast and hard. This kid must have a sweet tooth or something. I crave beef a lot more this time around (constantly wanting hamburgers or meatball subs) but I make sure to get some good stuff in too (chicken and turkey).

My OBGYN says we can finally classify my pregnancy as "normal". For those who don't know, I didn't have a "normal" pregnancy with Penny. I was a high risk for most of it. I was really quite sick the first trimester and was eventually hospitalized by week 12 with hyperemesis (I lost a total of 40lbs in a matter of 6 weeks). Thankfully, I have the same doctor this time around and we were able to get things stabilized with this pregnancy. She's thrilled that I'm starting to pick up some weight (although I'm still at a -7lbs from when I started this pregnancy) and is convinced everything is going to work out wonderfully.

Well, my meatball sub is calling my name!