"Jiro" is sounding better and better, Mike.....

(Oh, by the way.... 'Jiro' is a name I found in the baby names book a few months ago, it's a strange one but I jokingly said how perfect it is because it means "Second son" in Japanese. Mike just shook his head and said,"If you have a Japanese looking baby, go ahead. But I don't think that'll happen.")

Anyways, just when I thought we had a cute name figured out for the baby..... grrr.

We thought we'd done so well naming Lincoln. It's not some completely freaky made up name like.... Jahirmabab or something. (Yep, just made that one up basically by rolling my fingers along the keyboard.) But we thought it was a unique cute choice for a first name.

And we take Lincoln to his preschool orientation day, and find out he's going to go by "Lincoln C." starting on his first day of school.


I AM SOOOO MAD!!!!

I was seriously considering withdrawing him just because of that, but we like the place I picked. Whatever, we'll just deal with it. Hopefully this doesn't happen every year to him at school. Poor kid.

I think Linc will love preschool though. Hope he has lots of fun and learning there. And I ran into an old HS friend of mine, who also has a 3 year old starting there. But we enrolled them for different times. :( Oh well, it was nice to see her. And by the way, her little boy Adam didn't have this name duplication problem. Yeah. ADAM.

I keep trying to tell Mike this! If you want your child to have an unique name these days, you have to pick something normal and traditional, like James or Robert or Paul. This friend of mine said her son does not know any other Adams his age, but has 3 close friends named Kayden.

He'll start Sept. 4th, I'll post about it then.

Increased accountability

Well, lets see..... oh, my trip up to Canada was fun. I went with my mom, Lincoln, my moms new dog Daisy (I'll have to put up a picture of her soon. Lincoln is completely in love with her!) and of course Cletus the Fetus came along for the ride. Short trip, but fun to see Grandma and Grandpa for a few days. Also Robin and Blair, and it was Aunt Robin's birthday while we were there! Very fun, and most importantly I think Lincoln had lots of fun up there even with his mommy so exhausted and huge.

I've was kinda under the weather for a while, something (I'm not sure what) in addition to normal pregnancy symptoms, but it seems to have passed and the good news? After a couple of real yucky tests, it's confirmed I do NOT have gestational diabetes. That's pretty good to know.

And.... well, Mike's doing good. As far as we know, Baby #2 is doing good. If I don't get through the full 40 weeks I would be more than OK with that. I am so tired of being pregnant, I'm hoping to be finished at 38 or so. Just as long as we can do that healthily. I'll see what I can do.

And Linc just is adorable. He does funny stuff all the time, he's got such a funny little personality. Uh.... oh, one I just wanted to post on for now. The boy totally eats like a pregnant lady sometimes, and he learned it from me but then expounded on it. He's so strange. He likes to have pieces of bread, but he likes jelly on them. He also likes mayonnaise on them. So why choose, or have one with jelly then one with mayonnaise? No, he regularly eats bread with jelly and mayo together and throws a fit if we don't make it for him with both when he asks. He didn't learn that from me, that's too gross even for me. Weirdo. He did, however, get the very bad idea of eating crackers in bed from my 1st trimester habit. He just barely has given that up, his demands for 'milk and crackers please!' every night before falling asleep. I'm glad I don't have to wash his crumbly sheets every other day anymore.

Oh yeah and the reason I put 'Increased accountability' as the title. I guess I'll get to that now. I haven't had a lot of time to watch Olympics, but when I have it's pretty cool! Actually I think Michael Phelps needs to not be selfish and let other guys win every once in a while :) but other then that..... it seems every time there's an Olympics there is some random event I just get fascinated with, can't stop watching whatever particular one it is. Winter Olympics in SLC, I wanted to watch the moguls coverage all the time. If you don't know what that is, I don't blame you but believe me, it's cool.
This time, I was completely transfixed tonight on that women's marathon. I know, that's probably a boring one to everyone else but I liked it. The woman from Romania who won it, can you believe she's 38? And beat women half her age, by several minutes!

I am already planning on getting into shape and losing some weight, starting ASAP after I recover from delivery I'm planning on working out. And now I'm putting down here, in writing for anybody to see, (this is the increased accountability part, big time) a goal. A year after whatever my son's birthday ends up being, I'm gonna find a marathon to be in and even if I walk some of it or even most of it, I'm gonna do a marathon! I've done a 5K before, and I'll do it again this year and other stuff to work up to the marathon goal.... but I've wanted to do a marathon for a while and tonight reminded me again. So I'm gonna do it, it's like the AI audition thing. I'm not getting any younger, I could wait a few years more and do it then but why assume it'll be easier later? May as well do it while I can, so I can say I did it once.

Ahem. But no mocking me if I have to end up putting it off because of a foot injury or because it takes longer then expected to recover from delivery or anything else in life interferes. A year from September ??, 2008 (whatever the delivery day ends up as) is my goal, but it's not set in stone or anything. I'll do it as soon as I can!

Well, I have taken a couple of pictures lately I can post. Maybe tomorrow or something, just of random things Lincoln does that are silly. See ya then.

My turn to play the game.

I'm posting this before I go on a trip to Canada for a few days. I won't be going online until I get back probably, so you have a few days to comment away! OK well you've probably seen this memory game on other blogs, now I'm taking my turn. Here's the rules.

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you know me a little or a lot, anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you.

3. If you leave a memory about me, I'll leave one about you when you play this game on your blog. If you don't want to play on your blog, or if you don't have a blog, just let me know and I'll leave my memory of you in my comments if you want me to.