I'm here in spirit

Ever wonder why sometimes long-ish lengths of time go by where I am absent and have zero posts?  It is generally because I am sitting in front of the computer with Liam asleep on my lap, straining but failing to reach my laptop keyboard.  Or playing with him and thinking of something that would be awesome to post.  By the time I get to the computer, I have nearly always forgotten what that thing is. 

One of the things distracting me today was Liam starting to get teeth!  So exciting!  He's got his bottom two center teeth flush with his gum line.  I'm really not looking forward to Liam possibly being in pain from teeth coming in, or biting, but I'm still excited to take cute pictures with teeny teeth in them!

things I never want to do

1. get peed on (a lot) directly after getting out of the shower

2. go grocery shopping by myself with a baby in the rain

3. deal with AT&T

guess which three things have happened/ will happen today?
Welcome to my life.  I think I finally figured out why I need so much coffee/ chocolate to survive.
Plus, Liam is pretty darn cute.  And so far he has only peed on me the once today.  Wow.  I'm turning into the woman in Baby Mama that says "Is that chocolate or poop?" and then licks it.  Ok, that's gross, but I'm apparently headed in that direction.  If I make it all the way to that stage (which I hope I never do) can someone please smack me over the head?  Thank you.

argh! No, I'm not a pirate.

I seriously need the mother of all distractions to keep me busy for the next 6 weeks until Liam gets here.  Otherwise I will go completely bonkers.  I have total baby brain, which is not helped by the fact that my house is full of baby everything, and I have a new nephew.  Plus my friends who have cute kids keep putting more pictures of them on facebook.

It's official

So its official.  As of today I am officially having a boy.  I swear, I was nervous all day today.  I would be happy no matter what.  I mean, it couldn't hurt to have the proper number of fingers, toes, etc.  and being cute is always good too...but I was super nervous before my ultrasound that:
A) I wouldn't be as excited to hear "It's A Boy!" because I know I really wanted a girl.  Granted, I'm totally still excited, but I still feel a little bad that my response wasn't as excited as it should be.  Also, I kinda figured it would be a boy, because boys run rampant in Jeff's family.
B) The ultrasound tech would say, "Nope.  I guess its too early to tell what the gender is, and you, your husband, you mom, your mother-in-law, and your sister-in-law and drove way the heck out here in the middle of nowhere for nothing.  Sorry, come back later."

But I'm still excited.  Jeff got a bit freaked out though, because I think he figured it would be a girl, because that's kind of what we wanted, so when he realized it was a boy he realized that he has to be the role model now, while before he was just thinking he could get away with going to ballet recitals and smiling over tea parties.  Now he has to teach our son to be a man.  And a plus for me is that since its a boy I don't have to be the parent to give the puberty talk.  Yes!!  Also, I'm going to be saving big bucks on wardrobe.  Yes, boy clothes can be cute.  But I really don't get urges to buy jeans with skull and crossbones on them like I do to buy frilly poufy dresses.  I know, I'm kind of scared to have a boy because I'm super girly, and Jeff isn't exactly the butchest guy around.  What if our kid wants to play football?  Ick!

Now the only problem is that I really only wanted one kid, but I wanted a girl even more.  So in another year or two (or three) do we try for a second kid and hope for a girl?  I'm just a bit scared that we're going to be those parents who just wanted one girl and got four or five boys first.  Nightmare. 

But my number one happy reason for having a boy is that Alicia is having one 7 weeks before me, so our boys are going to be first cousins and best friends.  Also, since boys really do run rampant in Jeff's family, our son will have a ton of cousins to play with.  I mean, we all just got to the "old even to have kids age" and already there will soon be four boys and only one girl.

Oh, but of course my mind is already WAY too far ahead.  I'm already thinking that if (or when) we have a second kid, our house will be far to crowded.  I mean, yes, we do have a guest room that could be changed into kid room #2, but the closet is jam packed.  In short, we don't even have the first kid out yet, and even closet in the house (with kid #1 exception) is super full.  So if we have more than one kid we will probably need to move.  But I really don't to move.  I love our house.  Plus, buying and selling and having to get a new mortgage all sounds like a nightmare.  But like I said...WAY too far ahead of myself.  Sorry, I kind of started rambling and went off on like twenty different tangents.  Guess I've kind of got a lot going on in my crazy brain right now...

space issues

I'm having space issues.  I'm bored at home, so I decided to look online for strollers.  I really want a nice one, possibly a travel system.  Unfortunately, I drive a Beetle.  You know, the car with the smallest trunk known to man.  I utterly refuse to give up my cute little car, but now stroller shopping kind of sucks.  I just need to find some kind of awesome store that will let me test drive their strollers in my trunk to see if they fit.  Yeah right.  Like that will ever happen... So far I think I'm just doomed to end up with a crappy umbrella stroller.  Sad day.

pregnancy brain definition

when you turn off the shower and start to reach for your towel and you realize you are still covered in shower gel.

pregnancy brain x 2

So I'm a little bit of a spaz normally, but now I'm  extra worse at forgetting some things.  For instance, the other night I was making minestrone soup, something I've done a million times and could make blindfolded (actually that sounds kind of messy...).  Anyway, my recipe is super easy (and yummy).

minestrone soup

vegetable broth
tomatoes
zucchini
pasta
carrots
various spices
kidney beans
white beans

I just add whatever amounts I want of everything and it always turns out well.  This time I was pouring it into bowls for dinner, thinking there was something missing, when I realized I had completely forgotten to add carrots or beans.  So all everything of substance in my soup was tomatoes zucchini, and pasta.  That's it.  So that's me being a spaz.  Jeff on the other hand has no excuse.  He is not pregnant and apparently crazy.  But he is forgetful in general.  Let's just say the next few months could get pretty interesting with the amnesia twins (us).  Yesterday Jeff parked his car outside so we could get access to the attic (directly over where Jeff's spot is) to get the Halloween decorations down.  He parked outside, closed the garage door, and walked into the house.  That's as close as we got to getting the decorations down.