34 Weeks Pregnancy Thoughts

I'm 34 weeks pregnant today. Sorry, no picture. If I ever get my hair and makeup done today, I might think about taking one, but probably not. I had a doctor's appointment today and everything is looking great, they said. She's measuring like she should be, they found her heart beat right off the bat (they always do) and it "sounds like a girls heart beat", and her head is down. Even though I'm 34 weeks, they still haven't checked my cervix since my very first visit, and they are still scheduling me two weeks out, instead of every week. I'm fine with all of this, really, I don't like going to the doctor more than absolutely necessary, and I like having my cervix checked even less. They say it's because I'm on my third baby and so far everything about every pregnancy has been very normal and boring (which is a good thing). So ya, I guess I'll go back in on July 12.

But I thought since I've been doing a lot of pregnant stuff today, that I ought to post an update about it. I haven't been very good this time about posting pregnancy updates for two reasons #1 I feel like when I was pregnant with Ivan that every time I posted it was a just a long list of pregnancy complaints....and believe me, I still have that list this time, but I've decided that no one wants to read about them now or later, so I've not blogged them. If you are interested in what they are, you can ask Aaron. Poor guy, gets to hear them by the earful. :) #2 I feel like if I ignore my pregnancy as much as possible it will go by more quickly. Of course this strategy is ridiculous, pregnancy is pretty darn hard to ignore, but I'm doing my best to be stubborn about it. But I am going to post some things I thought might be interesting.

My cravings. I had cravings with my other two pregnancies, but not nearly as intensely as I have with this one. Here is a list of some of things I've craved this time. I'll put a * by the ones I'm currently craving.

Avocados*
Artichokes
Hot Tamales*
Lime Popsicles/Margaritas*
Salt and Vinegar potato chips
Snow Peas (this was practically the only thing that didn't make me sick in the 1st trimester)
Cold things*
Chocolate*
Corn on the cob* (has to be on the cob, nothing else makes the cut)
Watermelon**
Protein/steak
Coconut milk
Veggies* (dinner doesn't even sound appealing unless it has a LOT of veggies in it)
Ovaltine
Doughnuts (this one didn't last very long)
Strawberries
Cherries

Baby Quilt. Awhile ago, I mentioned that I wanted to do the baby's room in yellow and white polka dots with navy blue and white daisies. I still think that would be super cute, but I looked and looked and looked and could not find a navy blue that I liked. So, I scrapped that idea and totally changed it. Here is a square from the baby quilt I'm making. These are the colors I will use to do her room.

You can't really tell yet, but it's going to be a rag quilt, so the edges around the flower petals will fray some. My mom found the pattern for the quilt, and I thought it was going to be really hard, but now that I've started, it's not so bad, just time consuming. I'm hoping I finish it before the baby gets here. I always seem to be too tired at night to work on it.

And lastly, we're having a baby name crisis. This stresses me out. I thought we'd decided on the name Adelia Maxine months and months ago. I love the name Adelia, and Maxine is after my dad's mom, who was an amazing woman and I've always wanted to name one of my girls after her. The problem is that her name doesn't leave a whole lot of naming options. Her name was Maxine Harrison, no middle name. Maxine isn't the most awesome name we've ever heard, which is why we weren't going to use it as a first name, but I thought it would be good for a middle name, and then we could still have her named after my grandma. Somewhere in my mind, I thought Aaron and I had discussed this and agreed on it. But apparently, I was mistaken. Aaron does not like the name Maxine. And he never met my grandma, so he doesn't have her to associate the name with like I do, he says all he can picture are the Maxine comic strips.

I asked him what he thought would be a good middle name. He said Lynn. Uhhhggg! If one more person says we should have the baby's middle name be Lynn, I might start pulling my hair out. Lynn is my middle name and my mom's middle name, so I suppose it's the logical choice. And there is nothing wrong with the name Lynn. I love my middle name. But so does EVERYONE and their dog. Everyone has the middle name of Lynn, it must be a good filler name or something. I guess I'd just like to be a little more original than that.

The next issue with the middle name, is that traditionally we've had the middle name of our kids be the name of a family member, and we'd like to keep that going. Both our boys have middle names from Aaron's side, so now that we are having a girl, ideally we'd like to have a name from my side. The only problem is the name selection on my side, most of them make me want to cringe. No offense. I love my family. The ones that don't make me want to cringe, also don't seem to flow, or work very well as middle names. Even my name, Krystal, for example. We have Lincoln Aaron, why not have Adelia Krystal? I'll tell you why, because they sound terrible together. Krystal just was not meant to be a middle name. It's a fabulous first name, and I like it a lot, but as a middle name? No thanks.

After that we decided to go to bed and think about it more later. Unfortunately, I did not go to bed. Pregnancy insomnia strikes again. I was up until 5am. I had lots of time to ponder our name situation. I came up with three possible solutions. #1 Find a way to use Maxine without actually using Maxine. #2 Find a different middle name that goes with Adelia. #3 Change the first name all together and find a new middle name that fits it.

Option #1 seems like the easiest solution. When the baby's name was going to be Adelia Maxine, I'd often pondered the possibility of calling her Adi Mae for short, I just hadn't decided yet if I really liked it or not. But we could have her name be Adelia Mae, and just say that Mae was a shortened form of Maxine, just minus the xin. That way she could still be named after my grandma in theory. I'd really like the middle name to be two syllables, but I could probably get over that. I'll have to run it by Aaron.

Option #2 seems the least likely, mostly because I've been so set on Adelia Maxine for so long that I don't know if anything else will ever sound good to me, not to mention all the other reasons I mentioned in the paragraph above about names. But it's still an option, I'm planning on pulling up our good ol' family tree again and going over it once more, to see if I can find anything exciting.

Option #3 is do-able, I suppose, but I'm not sure I can give up the name Adelia. I love it. And we may not ever have the chance to use it again. Not to mention that there are very few girls names that I do like, and even fewer that Aaron and I agree on.

So, I guess we'll have to keep you all posted on our baby naming saga...don't monogram anything just yet. And I'll probably stress out until we do come up with a name, so I'm hoping it won't be long.