Well as we enter week 9, sickness has finally come into play. I know she had great hope to get past this point with minimal illness, but not so. Starting on Saturday she started getting sick and it has really not left her. I feel really bad because there is nothing I can do to help her. I just keep telling her to sleep when she wants to sleep and try to keep eating. So now I ask for any pregnant sickness advice for her…Please comment with any you may have.

OH and according to that odd “your baby is the size of a piece of food chart” the baby is now the size of a green Olive.

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One thing everyone keeps asking us is, “Are you going to find out what it is going to be?” Well no, we know what it is going to be, a baby. There are few mysteries left in life, we truly want that moment when I can go out to the waiting room and pronounce. “IT’S A …!!” The Wife was behind this since day one, people that know me know I have trouble with this kind of thing and wanted to find out originally. Then I started thinking, yeah I want that moment, and what if they are wrong…tell us it’s a girl, so we get ready for a girl and then the day comes and…OPPS what’s that? It looks like your daughter has a penis. We are planning the nursery to be in neutral colors and once we know, boy or girl, we can pick up the right stuff, Fire Engines or Princesses. Thus far our parents have all been on the same page, somehow they have all got the baby related stuff….more on this in another blog.

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What’s your name? Are you ok with what your parents named you? You know I never realized what my parents had to go through when thinking of names for me and my brothers. A name will be with you for the rest of your life, and you don’t even get to pick it. The Wife has tossed many girls names at me that I dismissed, mostly because you can turn it into some horrible nick name or I don’t like some sort of Celebrity that already has that name. She finally came up with Lilly Ann. A Boys name came a little easier; we had one in mind and just feel it’s a very strong name, Jack Henry. The First name for the girls name has no real significance in our families but Ann is one that is in either our families in one form or another. As For Jack, we each have a grandfather, and there have been many great Henry's in my family, but I would be lying if I didn’t tell you it really is to honor my cousin Henry who passed suddenly almost a year ago. So what’s in a name? Plenty!

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If you can’t tell by now, we are in fact expecting and my little thing in life will be joining us in about 7 months. I wanted to create this new space where I could post on the Wife’s progress and how everything is since we are now out of state. I hope this can be a place where you can come and share in the pure joy we feel right now. I have a few blog posts planned for the coming week so check back all this week for updates. Please feel free to leave comments with questions of what you want to be updated on.

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