February 7th = Baby G

I've had my 37 week checkup. Everything looked really good. Good enough, in fact, to schedule an induction date for February 7th putting me at 39 weeks! I went into labor on my own with the first two. With Ryan I started contracting on my due date and had him early the next morning. With Ethan my water broke one week early while I was home. I really liked going on my own. I felt like the baby and I were both ready and I had wonderful experiences both times. I'm interested and a little nervous to see how it is to be induced. I'd prefer to go on my own again, but this business of having a baby away from family is a little tricky. My mom needed to schedule time off of work and buy a plane ticket, and Kris needed to schedule his patients so we are very grateful to have a date to work with. Now that we have it, a ticket has been purchased and my mom comes into town next Saturday. I'm beyond relieved that she is coming to help me out. I can't believe I know when my baby is coming!

11 days! (But who's counting?!)

Here is the quilt I made for our newest little guy. I love it. I usually have a hard time with the boy prints out there. I'm not into the sports or jungle animals that seem to dominate boy fabrics, but I absolutely fell in love with this line.




I especially like how the back turned out.




Naming kids is hard. I think naming boys is especially difficult. Like I did with the previous two, I made a list and then went to Kris to give him a rundown. Right off the bat he said "No" to my top three! What?! We went back and forth for some time. Oddly enough, both of our top picks are "G" names so I felt safe adding it to his quilt. I think we are going to pick the name Kris likes (good thing I like it, too!), but he wants to keep the name a secret until we have the baby. I don't really care if people know, but I have to admit that it's been fun to hear everyone's guesses.


The top guesses so far have been: Graham, Gabe and Geoff (pronounced Jeff). Any others???