Baby Lucas

Yes, that is right.  We have chosen a name for our baby boy and the name we will give him is Lucas.  It works for both a little boy and a grown man.  Shawn has mentioned that we can call him Jean Luc Picard....I just laughed and said, oh good, we can have Captain Kirk and Captain Picard (trekkies) in our family!

We have noticed it is a little more difficult to find cute things for baby boys than baby girls.  There are just not a lot of options.  Either you get something with transportation, or some big animals.  Since we are both a little more on the designer side of life, we are looking more for colors and patterns, that in our eyes would work for a baby. Yes, it's a bit silly if you think about it, but we just want to have a more modern/hip baby boy.

Anyway, aside from clothing and bedding and the aesthetics of our baby, we are more than thrilled to be having this wonderful child come into our lives.  Payton is excited to have a little brother.  She is always poking at him and wanting to hug him.  I can't wait for when he gets bigger and just loves to kick all the time and not shy away from a hand touching my belly so that both she and Shawn can actually feel him move.  It's fun to see him roll around in there, but you have to be watching at the right times.

I will write that I can't wait for Lucas to come out and play.  He's starting to sit on my lungs and make it difficult for me to breathe, cross my legs, just basically things that women do, I'm finding harder and harder to do.  Bend over?  Forget about it! And I'm only going to get bigger, so why complain now?  But other than being uncomfortable, hot, kind of nauseous, Lucas and I are doing great!

26 Weeks