Names......

We walked by a family with like 4 girls on Matt and I's last date and he said, " I should go back and get the names of those girls! How did the parents choose 4 names!!!!!!!"

So if you don't know..... we are having a girl! It was quite the shock, cause I swore I was having a boy. And to be honest, it has been like, what?, 3 weeks since finding out and I still think in my head I am having a boy. I call it him when referring to the baby in my belly. While shopping, I don't have any desire to look at baby girl clothes. And don't even mention names..... what in the world are we going to name this child?

Matt and I can't agree on a name to save our life. It is quite comical to listen to us try. We spent last Sunday night at Matt's parents house with a brother and sister-in-law of ours trying to figure out. We went through his parents relief society list because we joke, me too, that I like old lady names and I guess they have a bunch of old ladies in their ward. The name Matt most liked was Mimi! I think we have settled that the girls middle name will be Jane. Maybe her first name even! Who knows?

Some names we, well, maybe me more than Matt have liked so far are: (and I have kept a list of them, so they are easier to rule out and less likely to forget which we have ruled out) Clara/Claire, Olive, Ruby*, Violet, Anna*, Lauren, Janie, Daisy, Lucy*, Molly, Lilly, Jillian/Jill, Annabelle*, Annie, and Juliet. The * ones are the few that Matt kinda, maybe likes! He isn't super keen on any of them. Right now he likes Reagan or Lindsay.

And everyone likes to give suggestions, which I actually don't mind. We need them! My father has called me often and told me he likes the name Grace. My grandma likes Evalyn. Matt's mom likes Susanna.

My sister-in-law Jeanne likes Madison and call her Maddie. Which is cute. But there is a problem. There are 3 Maddie's on our street. 1 lives across from us, 1 lives 3 doors down, and one actually just walked by our house, is Carter's best friends older sister. I don't want another Ella, which isn't to say I don't love Ella's name- but there are like 6 Ella's in our ward. Again 1 lives right across the street. And I know we most likely won't live here forever, but still.... Between the 75+ kids on our street and the 35+ nieces and nephews, our names are limited.

I kinda feel like if we were to find a name for her, it would settle in my head that we are actually having a girl. I really do think that when the baby comes out the doctor is going to say, 'oh! Look we were wrong.... it is a BOY!!!!' I know that that is unlikely, but a name would help give this child some identity?

And another funny thing about naming it, is that we have almost always known the name upon conception. Ella took a little longer, but still I think we knew once we found out she was a girl that was our Eleanor Rose. This next one was going to be Truman.... there is no girl name that can be made out of that one.

So I don't know.

I haven't posted for long because I felt like I couldn't post until I talked/announced the sex of the child, but not able to confront it until now, I suppose. 2 and 2! So different than how I thought my family would look. I don't mind having a girl, truly, just so different than what I truly believed. i always thought my last would be a boy, which begs the question are we done......

But before we decided whether or not we are we have to name this child..... so any suggestions.

And Again.....

Well, it wouldn't be a Sat. if it didn't rain a ton and was was just yucky all around! So Carter's games were cancelled and we thought we are so sick of this and not being able to do all the yard stuff we are trying desperately to do, so we thought well what else could be do? Get out of the house and do something fun, which we haven't done for awhile- well not all of us. Matt did take Carter is Supercross last weekend, but the rest of us didn't go. Sooo.. we decided to go downtown to the Discovery Center!! Matt had taken the kids there once before, but I didn't go- who knows now what I was doing. We rode trax downtown and ate lunch out and then headed on over.

The kids were thrilled about taking Trax and besides getting drenched while running from the car to get on the train, it was great! Definitely not cheaper, or quicker, going that way, but we were in it for the experience I suppose. We just at Applebee's at the Gateway and practically ran full speed to the Discovery Center to finally get out of the rain for awhile.

Once you get over the sticker shock of how much it cost, it was awesome!!! what was kinda funny about it however, was that it felt like we were there for forever, but we were only there for a little over 1.5 hours. I had a lot of fun and usually time flies when you are having a great time, right? so I don't know what exactly our problem was, but what felt like 3 hours was about half that. Maybe cause we had been gone from home for so long anyways.....?

Each kid had favorite parts, of course, unfortunately none were in the same place. Lincoln of course LOVED the huge ball area. What is so exciting about putting plastic balls into tubes, is only known to a 22 month-old. Ella loved the kids sized kitchen in the house! It was really fun. She also loved the market, but was unable to play very long in there because Carter was eager to leave that area. It was a kid sized town with a construction site, market, farm, water play area. They had several cars to ride in and one that you could put gas into and fill the tires with air. So cute and fun! Carter's favorite area was probably the news station. Although I don't really know, he said he liked all of it when asked and seemed to bounce from one thing to the next pretty quickly! But nonetheless we all had a wonderful time. Oh, my favorite part was seeing how much fun my kids were having! Can't beat that!

We were ultimately there for only about 1 hour and 40 minutes. It felt much, much longer than that. After we left the center we went and got some candy from a candy store! What family day would be complete without a trip to the candy store? Of course after we left the candy store it started to rain again! Urg.... But we shortly hopped back on the trax and headed home. The kids were more subdued this time. Ella even fell asleep on the trip back to the car and then everyone else fell asleep on the car ride home. It was a good day. We haven't done something like that for awhile and it was good for us! Days like that are what makes it really fun to be a parent!