more ramblings

Well I think our family is finally on the mend. I swear either Kylie, myself or Jared have been sick at one time or another over the past six weeks! All the sickies going around has left me very stressed on Sundays lately. Both Jared and I have sunday callings so it leaves us in a real bind of what to do when Kylie manages to get sick. Jared teaches the young men and I am in the nursery. It's one thing if we'd have some forshadowing of things to come, but it's happened twice now where Kylie doesn't show any symptoms until Saturday night (as in the middle of the night she'll wake up with a horrible cough) and then we are left in a bind of what to do with our callings so one of us can take her home.

We have a doctors appointment and ultrasound tomorrow morning (just shy of 35 weeks) to make sure things are still looking good. Everytime we ask Kylie what we should name her brother she says "Take!". We think she is saying Jake but that name is obviously out because she has a cousin Jake on each side of the family already :). We still have no idea what this baby will be named. I have a huge list of names and am no where near to having it whittled down to just a few. I'm convinced that this baby won't be named for at least a few days after his birth but Jared seems to think so otherwise. We seem to agree easily on girl names but with boy names it's another story. I also feel a lot more pressure to "get it right" since he will have this name for the rest of his life (no pressure, no pressure) whereas a girl will most likely drop their last name once they marry. There are just not a whole lot of boy names out there that I LOVE so it's made things really hard for me.

Still trying to finish up some last minute Christmas shopping. It's so hard to take Kylie out with me now. She just goes wild when she's contained in a shopping cart for some reason. She has no self constraint when she's out of the cart either. So she'll try to put everything in sight into the cart, will try to open things, or spends her time running away from me. I've almost lost her twice this week because she will just disappear the minute I look away at something. She generally hates the stroller too so that hasn't worked either. She seems to like riding around in her dolly stroller so I still need to get an umbrella stroller and see if she'll sit in there for me better. I have a feelings that my days of taking her to the store will be over in a few months. I can barely manage her on my own and it will be that much harder once the little one comes.