The baby apparently thinks that my bladder is his own personal waterbed. I am carrying him so low, there's no way there's any room for my bladder to hang out. The part of my tummy that is furthest out is below my belly button...it kind of looks weird.

I basically always feel like I have to pee even if I really don't. Then again, sometimes I do. Sometimes I really don't, but it still feels excruciating...especially when I am in some sort of meeting that I know will last another 45 minutes but that I don't feel comfortable stepping out of. I think that I just need to train myself to deal with the feeling and not go unless I know I really have to. I got a lot of practice today.

We'd had a possibility for a name for a little while, but Andy didn't want to commit because we hadn't had a chance to really sit down and look at names. Today we sat down with our Top 100 and also looked on the SSA website for baby name data. I had to look up data for like the state of Utah and Iowa so that I could weed out all the black and Hispanic names (I mean, you know, I just don't think that we'll be naming our child Francisco or Jamaal - no offense to anyone).

There's just nothing else out there that's really, really catching our attention. I know for myself I have gone through the Top 100 several times, thinking "I am going to read each name with an open mind." Still...the name we have is the only one that's really like "I want to name my son this!!"

So, for all intents and purposes, baby has a name now, but we're also kind of keeping it open, especially the middle name, in case we come across and love some new name that we just magically have not come across in our research. It would really have to be something not on any of the lists...and most of the names not on the Top 100 are not on there for a reason.

I think that I have gotten to the point where I have completely left behind the concept of our child possibly being a girl. Now that he's definitely a boy and most likely has a name, it's making it that much more difficult to wrap my mind around the fact that we still have to wait FOUR MONTHS, more, for him to get here. He's becoming more and more real to us every day, and he's SO CLOSE, yet so far away. I mean, he could not possibly be closer to me, yet he's just so inaccessible.

Plus, I just can't imagine the baby waking me up more often than my bladder does now...it'll be a RELIEF to have a crying baby in the cradle in the corner...Hopefully the next few months will fly by very, very quickly.