Stuck in the middle

I thought I had my baby's name picked out. Paige McKenzee for a girl and Tristan Khalil for a boy. Remember? Easy right? Well every since I found out that I was having a girl I've been picking names out of a hat on a daily basis. Paige is pretty much set. I love the name and that is what I call her whenever we have our "mommy and me" time. Despite what other people haters think about the name, Paige is what it is going to be. However McKenzee is up for discussion. Lately I've been thinking about Gabrielle, Savannah, Haylee after my grandmother, Noelle, and Kensley. I've been up in the air.

Now my son has entered the mix. He desperately wants to name my daughter. He is finally coming around to being a big brother and I am excited about that. I have come to the conclusion that I want him involved since it will be the three of us chilling for the next 18 years. His name of choice is Katelyn. It's cute.....although I never considered it before.

So after thikning about it, I've decided that the baby's name as of now is Paige Katelyn. Paige consists of 5 letters. My son's name is Jalen and consists of 5 letters. Check! Katelyn begins with a K. My son's middle name begins with a K. My name begins with a K. My father's name begins with a K. Checks all around! I think we've settled on something that we can live with. Time to put the name hat away

The Michelle Obama look .... aka Paige's closet



Her Michelle Obama look :)


I was pretty adamant that I was not going to start shopping for this baby until August 1st. Dont ask me why that particular date stuck in my mind. I was trying to wait until I was further alone and until school started and simply picked the date. Anyhoo here I am chilling in Biloxi, Mississippi with my lovely family and what hits me? The urge to shop! Not the urge to shop for myself because that would be too much like right but the urge to shop for Paige. I tried to fight it as much as I possibly could but decided to go with the emotion and hang loose. So we piled into my father's car and drove to the outlet mall. I had no idea what temptation and pleasure awaited me lol. Seriously shopping for this baby was like a high...it was euphoric. Ok maybe I'm exaggerating a little but I did get a major rush.

Unlike registry shopping, clothes shopping has ALL of the cute items for little girls. A woman could easily go broke. Thank God my father raised me to be a sale-a-holic and I've become quite the coupon queen too. I started off at Baby Gap proceeded to The Children's Place(which had a deal so great that I need to find another one asap!) and ended my journey at Carters. Paige has jeans, dresses, and the cutests skirts. She can look like Beyonce one day and Michelle Obama the next. I love it! Of course I told myself that this was the ONLY shopping that I would do for her until August 1st.

Three days later I find myself entering a Walmart for cereal and exiting out with 15 personalized onesies for Paige. I just could not resist....they were so cute with their "My mom is cute and so am I" slogans! What was a woman to do? Because of all of this andddd moving, I have had to push Paige's shopping date back to October. At the rate that I was going I would be broke and homeless and Paige's closet would be ridiculously stocked. So I'm trying my best to keep my promise. This week is sale tax week. Lets see how long I last

             

21 weeks!!!!

I'm moving along quite nicely. I have been asked several times why I write this blog....why do I take so many pictures? Well the first answer is the easiest...BECAUSE I WANT TOO!  Naw seriously...I'm the one who is pregnant and I want to remember it. Do you know how many photographs I have of me being pregnant with my son? 2! Two lousy pictures! I cant go back and say ohhhh I remember that because I only have two photographs. I cant go back and read a post and laugh or cry about it because I never wrote down any memories. I never thought I'd be pregnant again and so even though Paige is kicking my butt...I want to remember this! So I'm now 21 weeks! Paige is so active it's not even funny but this little girl is going to be a mommy's girl! When I'm sleep, she's sleep! When I'm up...she's up! And she lets me know that she's up too whether its by kicking or punching! Whenever I sing to her she perks up and shows appreciation with a little jab! Whenever I talk to her she talks back with a little nudge. I love this little girl. 19 weeks left!

The Registry Experience

I have been waiting to find out the sex of my baby so I could create my registry. I thought the experience would be a FUN experience. I was WRONG! lol

Seriously it rained the entire day that I was scheduled to go to the store. Not a little rain either...hard down pouring! I met my friend at the store and we got busy. This must have been the largest BabiesRUs in the world! I felt myself getting overwhelmed. There was just so much to pick.  15 minutes into the registry and I'm upset. Let me say this. When I was pregnant with my son there was nothing but cute girl stuff. Nothing in blue or green was even considered cute. The best thing about being pregnant with a girl is all of the cute pink things right? WRONG! There were cute boy things in brown and mint EVERYWHERE! If the baby was a boy I would've been out of there in 30 minutes. I had to search and search for pink and brown....and even then I didnt like it. It took me 3 days to get Paige's registry done and I literally wanted to shout Hallelujhah!

Now we can get to buying!!!! I know what I want and I can start checking it off one by one. I know that some things on my registry are pricey but I learned from being pregnant with my son....pick what YOU want for your child. Believe it or not, people will buy it. And even if they dont, I will get it myself. At the end of the day you dont wanna be stuck settling just because of the price. It took me a minute but here they go....my baby registries!!!!!


My BabiesR'Us Registry


My Target Baby Registry

20 weeks!

Woo hoo! Today I turned 20 weeks. I'm half way there. I'm so excited and nervous. These 20 weeks have flown by...my Jedus! I'm so looking forward to the next twenty weeks, Paige(Formally known as Deuce) getting bigger and eventually making her entrance into the world! 20 more weeks to go :)

Look....I have a hand!!!!

Paige playing with her hand

For a minute now, the picture of Paige(formally known as Deuce)'s hand has been my all-time favorite but this picture here is a close second. There is a story behind this picture and that story makes me look at this picture every single day.

When my doctor did the ultrasound I really couldnt see much....a head, a foot, a head. I was struggling. When my doctor saw this picture she immediately started saying AWWWWW! Well I was confused.  She said "Dont you see it" Ummm no! Help a sista out. She said she is looking at her hands!!!

As soon as she said this, Paige turned her head and I saw two little eyes. On everything I love those were the cutest little eyes in the world!!!! Paige looked for two seconds and then went back to playing with her hands. Had my baby girl not turned her head and looked at me, I never would've seen what my doctor saw. It's so precious!!!

Paige is looking at her hands as if she has just discovered hands.  Reminds me of the movie Look Who Is Talking....remember Mikey was like "Whoa, a hand!!!"  Look at Paige.  She has the same expression on her face

Well it's official.....

So today I had my doctor's appointment. I was a little worried before I got there because I had no idea how Deuce would act. I should've known today was going to be MY day because as soon as I walked in, I was called. No joke. I've been having extremely long wait times but I was called in 10 minutes early.

When I got to the back I noticed we went straight to the ultrasound room. I yelled a little! I'm always happy to see my little Deuce-Y!. Of course my weight was checked. I clocked in at 198 which my doctor thought was fabulous. Seriously I thought she was going to break into a holy dance or something.

Seriously she was so happy. All I could do was shake my head. She then announced that I was about to turn 20 weeks which set her off again. She started clapping. Seriously, this lady is really happy for me. lol We are almost 1/2 way there and she couldnt be happier for some reason. Anyway we chatted about my vacation, how I was eating, blah blah blah and then it was time for the nitty gritty.....time to determine if I was batting for Team Pink or Team Green!

So we do the ultrasound and Deuce is straight chilling. My doctor really needs to invest in a new ultrasound machine because it was easier to point Deuce out on the one at the hospital. My doctor ohhhh'd and awww'd and I had to nod and pretend like I knew what she was talking about....God forgive me. I did see feet and a head....you cant miss that head lol. When I asked her about the sex, she told me that Deuce had his/her legs closed! WHAT! I was so pissed. Like seriously kid...we're going to do THIS again. The poor child must've known that her landlord for the next 20 weeks was pretty upset with him/her because all of a sudden those legs flew open and we saw that Deuce had a hamburger instead of a hot dog. Yep...we're officially

I am so happy!!! I now have my complete set....a wonderful boy and a wonderful girl. Life simply could not be any better than this! We are officially TEAM PINK!!!!