This past week has been a busy one! On Saturday, after we found out Nugg's gender, Linda & I decided to knock out some of the baby registry at Babies R Us. Some of Linda's friends from college came with us as well...since they were jazzed up about us having a baby, but more so they really, really wanted to use the scanner registry gun. They are easily entertained and easily excited, I guess? Anyhow, Linda & I spent about 2 ½ hours at Babies R Us, and of that time I think we spent an hour just looking over strollers. 
My dilemma was the ease and convenience of the strollers. Working for an airline and boarding many families with strollers, I can't begin to count how many times I've wasted several minutes trying to figure out how to fold down a stroller because the parents failed to collapse their strollers at the bottom of a jetway after being asked to do so before boarding. We ended up registering for two strollers. One that is part of a set that matches the car seat, and the other that's a like an all-terrain stroller. Linda said she wanted something nice to take on a walk, or if we visit somewhere that requires a lot of walking. I told her that traveling is gonna be a whole new adventure with a baby and we'd want to make it as easy as possible. A huge all-terrain stroller is gonna impede our travels - a simple umbrella stroller will be much more convenient. We cut the registry day short though because Linda was starving and will continue another day... It's a daunting task! I never knew how much is required to have a baby! But it's fun!
I think Linda has been going through a nesting phase. She took a few vacation days from work and has been working away on getting the house in order. We've already bought our crib for Nugg, but instead of buying a new chest of drawers and changing table, we are using my grandma's old dresser drawers from the 1940s as a combo dresser and changing table. But we need to refurbish it...and Linda decided to get to work on that with sanding the old stain and scuffs off it. Yesterday she spent most of the afternoon rearranging our closets. She's been very busy!Seems the hot question of the week now is, "What's the name gonna be?", and "Can we please call him something else besides McNugget (or Nugg or Nugget)?" Linda said she isn't ready to commit to a name just yet and will probably make her mind up in February or March. He's gonna be here in April! It's the age old debate between husband and wife. We have decided that Nugg's middle name will be William, which is my middle name and my dad's first name. But we haven't come to a decision yet about the first name. My list includes Evan, Kyler, Caleb, Elijah, Nicholas, Rylan, Ethan, Owen, Cole, Zachary, Asher, Connor, Landon, Abe, Carter, Keaton, Nash, Case and Grayson. Linda hates most of these. Evan was an early favorite and there's a story behind that name... But Linda's not ready to confirm that name yet. She said she does like Evan, Owen and Zachary. She's thinking of more Irish names. Her maternal grandparents immigrated from Ireland in the 1940s, and she still has cousins there and she was thinking along those lines... She emailed me a short list of Irish names she doesn't hate which included; Finian, Ronan, Owen and Teague. I like Teague and Owen...but Finian and Ronan? She said we could call him Finn or Rowe for short. Ummm, no. I like Finn...but just Finn. Not Finian.
We are in the midst of our 21st week! One of my friends, Deb, put it into perspective - the earliest Nugg could be born in as early as 16 weeks (when we hit our 37th week). In comparison, Linda took the pregnancy test just 16 short weeks ago! Good God! On average, Nugg would weigh about 12 ounces, but he's a bit ahead of the game. At our ultrasound they said he weighs about 14 ounces now! We forgot to ask how long he was, but he'd be about 10 ½ inches long, or about the length of a carrot. Linda is feeling him kick and punch more and more...and you can see him punching away in the ultrasound video. I actually got to feel a pretty good kick the other night...and there was no doubt about it! Such an amazing feeling! In other developments, Nugg's eyebrows and lids are now present. Fingerprints are now fully formed and loud noised can wake him up. In fact, we've already experienced that. Truman dropped his bone on our hardwood floors the other day and Nugg jumped and kicked in response! His circulatory system is completely functional now... The umbilical cord system continues to grow and thicken as blood travels with considerable force through the body to nurture him. He already has a high number of red and white blood cells too. The placenta is now about the size of Nugg. In fact at our last appointment, Nugg's heart rate measured 145 beats per minute! Nugg could be swallowing as much as 17 ounces a day of amniotic fluid now. It's so cool to be able to call him HIM!!Happy Turkey Day everyone!!
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