Name that baby!!

Thus it begins!  What to name baby #2??  Yesterday I took that home gender test and am happy to report we are having a BOY (supposedly)!  How exciting!!  One of each!!  Unfortunatley for this new little one, Mike and I cannot agree on boy names.  I tend to like semi-preppy meets sophisticated, while he likes rugged meets all-boy.  What he doesn't know is that I have a secret weapon (worked awesome when picking our daughter's name!!).  I patiently wait until he is sound asleep and whisper the name of choice over and over.  After a few weeks of this, he "came up" with our daughter's name .... one that I just so happened to LOVE!  I am also gonna employ Ella's help.  She gladly refers to "her" baby with my name choice:)  We shall see if this works!

Grasping at straws (of my sanity that is)

My poor baby is still sick and it literally makes me sick. Unfortunately I can feel her pain and would switch places with her in a heartbeat. But I can't. Thankfully, I (think) am helping her cope and she is enduring like a trooper. She only slows down when she feels really crummy. I am discovering all of these new worries of mommy-hood. How do I ease her through the rough times without adding stress or creating bad habits?? How do I teach her to take this responsibility as she gets older?? How do I lead by example?? I know these are all things that I will work out, but they feel so overwhelming in combination with everything else. Hence why I have been blog-deprived recently. However, I fully intend to keep trudging through and keep up with the new blog gig .... hopefully with more uplifting posts to come :) Take a deep breath and tomorrow we begin again!