As I write, I am uploading our wedding photos to facebook (finally!). It's not lost on us how funny it is that we found out we were expecting before we even got our wedding photos back. It's very strange looking at them thinking about how that was the last photos we have of us before we were pregnant. What's even weirder is looking at our honeymoon photos - we were expecting and didn't even know it then!
Even though that wasn't too long ago, life has already started to change. First up on things to get used to: the realization that daycare for infants is going to cost us an arm and a leg (or one fishing kayak per month). Brandon has been yearning for a fishing kayak for months now. I told him
today that at the price we will pay for daycare per month we could
afford to buy him one fishing kayak per month!
On another note, we have chosen a name. Brandon's first name is John and Dad's first name was Mark, so our baby will be "John Mark." My whole life I imagined having a girl first, which we would have named "Helen Claire" after my maternal grandmother. I've never even given thought to boy names (or any other girl names for that matter), so finding a name we loved posed a challenge at first. I wasn't even sure that it was "THE name" until someone at work referred to our baby as "John Mark." Hearing it like that not only made the idea of our baby more real, but it also made me realize that no other name would do. We are John Mark's parents...so surreal! I just can't wait to meet him...
Sometimes that moment seems so far away like when I think about it in days 168 to be exact. Sometimes it seems closer than I'd like; for instance, when I catch birthing scenes on T.V. or when I think about how the Gatorade in our fridge will last longer than my pregnancy (not guaranteed fresh after March 13th) and how much stuff we will need to do and buy before the Gatorade goes bad. Guess we better get on it!
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