Voting... on here

I'm so curious as to who's voting which way. I like the poll, it's neat to see, but I'm totally nosy and wonder who voted girl and who voted boy. I've got 90 days to wonder who's in there, I guess I can keep on wondering about other things too.

If you haven't voted, cast your vote. As of today, the boys are only up by one. Before Friday though they were up by three so there have been some girl votes over the weekend.

...if anything it's something to keep me busy. :)

Home again

Obviously we are home again if I'm blogging... (that can only mean I'm procrastinating!)

We spent 3 days in STL, and just over 48 hours in KC. It was a short trip but well worth it. Saw my best friend from High School get married, Matthew got a (wooden) horsey and rode on a "real" train for the first time, and spent much needed time with family!

Here is just a sampling for you...

Poll...

So I made a poll just now. Jamie asked if I had explained the 'Manna' name or not on here and while I think I have... I'll do again just in case.

We're not finding out the gender so instead of calling it "it" the whole time, I like to have a name to use. With Matthew, he was Cashew until born. Combination of the girl name we chose and the boy one... this time is the same. Manna is a combination of our name choices. (We've chosen a different girl name than the one we had picked out for Matthew). Manna is fitting also since manna in the Bible was a 'gift from Heaven.' Translated, the word manna actually means "what's that?" They didn't know what it was they were given so they called it "what's that" haha! Thus, our Manna baby is just those two descriptions: he or she *is* a gift from Heaven and we don't yet know *what* it is, so it is simply "what's that"!

... Lady in the Taco Bell drive through last night asked if she could ask what we were having. My typical response is "a baby" though I just told her we didn't know. To which I actually can't remember what she said. It was probably at least positive, unlike a cashier last week who told me it would be a SHAME to have a second boy when I told her that we didn't know... UGH! Why can't people keep their negative thoughts to themselves!?

So, anyhow, cast your vote. And I'll take any positive feedback you'd like to leave us about not finding out who is in there. ;)

random baby wonderings...

While it's not extremely late, I find myself solo tonight-- Jamie is in bed with a migraine and has been there since after dinner. Matthew has been in bed for well over an hour. Which means I've been left to my own devices (ie: net surfing).

Obvious wondering: who is in there? Are you a boy or girl? This week alone about 5 different people have either made their assumptions or asked if we're finding out or why we aren't finding out and all that. It's making me curious but not curious enough to know for sure. I love the idea of waiting. I love the hope of Jamie having his "movie moment" and getting to announce who's there to those waiting in the waiting room! So, we'll continue to wonder who our Manna baby is in there.

Another thing I've been extremely focused on this week is the bigness factor going on here. Since Tuesday I've done nothing but wonder about our three options with this belly measuring so far ahead: 1. It's just heavy on fluid and will balance out by next time. 2. there is a seriously large baby in there 3. could it still be potentially twins???? We had our big u/s and there was clearly ONE baby on that screen. They've only been finding ONE heartbeat at each visit-- but who's to say there isn't one hiding!? Could there be two in there?! It's nuts to think about. Seriously nuts. And I have another three weeks to wonder which scenario it is until my next appt.

The last thing I'll just ramble on about which I already have on here but oh well-- is this child is ACTIVE. Jamie said again last night he was woken to the child beating on him during the night. I of course did not wake up or recall the events. Today in church the child was beating on my bible in my lap. You could actually see the book being bumped it was crazy funny! But painful too. I've never felt anything like this before. I can't believe I missed all this action with Matthew.

Anyhow, that's my mind's wanderings for tonight.
Sleep well all.

Wooo Hoooo!

OMG! I'm so pumped today I could just cry about it! I've been trying to figure out how to milk a little more time in MO when we go to STL next weekend but it just hasn't been working out. So far since we've moved, even if I've only been in one city (STL or KC) I've seen both families b/c either one or the other travels to me OR I travel to both... This would be the first time when I came "home" but didn't see my KC family. I'm going to town for my best guy-friend's wedding. Jamie can't take any extra days off given our current baby cooking status, he needs all his days for the end of the year. I suggested flying Jamie home so he wouldn't miss work and driving back myself but that got vetoed. BUT! My bestest dearest more smarter than me friend suggested flying me home LATER and him driving back!!! And that's what we're going to do!

THANK YOU AIRTRAN for having an awesome web sale today!

I get to see both my families now! I couldn't be more happy about this. After this trip I am stuck stuck stuck until this baby comes. I hated the thought of not seeing anyone for so long.

Three days in STL! Two days in KC! HOT DOG!

another baby update

I had a normal check up today. We're measuring ahead of schedule by four weeks, so my midwife said at the next appt if we're still measuring that far ahead, she'll do an u/s and see how big Manna is in there. I'm hoping it will balance out. As most would, I'm hoping we don't have a big baby in there. But we'll see. Also, I took my glucose test today. I should have the results by Thursday. I'm hoping beyond hope that we're healthy enough to pass it this time around. Otherwise we go back to the lab for more tests. Heard a good strong heartbeat, though baby was a wiggly-worm! This one is still just so active!

I'll post again when we get the GL results.

Belly shot

Jamie took an updated picture of the Manna Belly today... Thought I'd share it on here. 24 weeks this weekend. It's really starting to be out there, huh?

RELAY!

Woah! Relay for Life is only a month away from TODAY! Shoooo! This walk will be so personal for me. I'm walking to support my dad who is in his second year of battling cancer. I can't believe it's only a month out. It seems like we just started planning this past spring. Will you please support my efforts!? It's easy. Just click on this link and hit donate! It walks you through an easy step by step process. I'm still under half way to my goal of raising 250 dollars. Even five or ten dollars helps. Will you please help~?~ THANK YOU.

http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/RelayForLife/RelayForLifeSouthAtlanticDivision?px=6463180&pg=personal&fr_id=8403&et=CZGxK_xMzoit0r2heUKofg..&s_tafId=119563