Mid-August Testers

[InHisHands]

Bea - I love your nursery. Hubby and i have noticed our perfect size office is a rather small nursery as well! LOL It truly is funny how that works out.

Lisette - I have so much PMA for you girl. Try not to worry and enjoy this pregnancy to its fullest! I found that once i stopped "Hiding" my pregnancy at 10 weeks.. that i felt SOOOOOOO much better about it. If i ever get pregnant again, i don't think im going to wait to tell people. Do you think you'll stick with those 4 names for this little one, or are you going to continue to search and consider other names? I really like the ones you've come up with thus far.

Bex - I don't think hubs would go after Harper. He tends to like more bibical names/concepts for girls. I'm sorry that your O test was negative.. but im super excited that it is ovulation week again!!!! Here's hoping for a triple BFP month!!!

CH - I saw part of the game. K-State did horribly!!! I watched the first quarter and that was enough LOL. I actually attended K-State (though decided to graduate elsewhere)... but i tend to route for Mizzou and LSU when it comes to college teams.

Snow - I hope you are having a good weekend.

Nic - I could come up with a million boy names, but had a really rough time coming up with girl names. It is funny how things work out sometimes. I just ended up going through top 1,000 name lists and went to sites like nameberry... and wrote down all the ones i would even consider naming my child. Then i had my hubby go through the list and mark the ones he could tolerate and star the ones he really liked (since he wasn't into spending hours upon hours online looking up names). He also mentioned some names he liked that was on top of his head as well. I'm sure you'll come up with something.

It's gonna drive me nuts waiting till you give birth to find out what gender you are having. Do you have a feeling that the baby is going to be a girl?

 

[InHisHands]

For anyone who is interested: This was the name list i had came up with after looking up over 1,000 names. Never thought i would be so picky.

Boys
Adler, Archer, Asher, Atticus, Austin, Beckett, Benjamin, Brady, Cane, Chandler, Charles Collin, Corbin, Craig, Dexter, Finch, Gabriel, Gregory, Jack, Jeremy, Laurent, Levi, Linton, Linus, Logan, Lucas, Matthias, Maverick, Memphis, Nash, Nathan, Quimby, Ronan, Ryan, Sawyer, Seth, Silas, Sutton, Titus, Tobias, Tucker

With My favorite combos being: Gabriel Lucas, Dexter Atticus, Brady Laurent, Craig Matthias, Levi Maverick

Girls
Adelaide, Alex, Anna, Avery, Bailey, Cadence, Callie, Cassie, Casey, Charley, Cordelia, Chloe, Dabney, Delilah, Elizabeth, Faith, Grace, Hope, Iva, Jacqueline, Madeline, Matilda, Morgan, Nevaeh, Quinn, Rachel, Rylee, Tieha, Veroncia, Victoria, Viola, Wren

With My favorite combos being: Hannah Grace, Morgan Adelaide, Rachel Wren, Adelaide Elizabeth, Veronica Bailey

 

[snowflakes120]

Wow! A bunch of chatty gals in here today!

LOVE everyone's names!! We have found it easier to pick out girl names than boys. I like the more modern boys names and he like traditional names and we find it hard to see eye to eye. We have a bunch picked out already but I am sure we will def come up with more.

I have 2 younger sisters and hubby is a middle child with an older and younger brother.

We plan on trying right away as I am already 31 soon to be 32 in a few months and I would ideally like my 2 children before I turn 35. I used to want 4 children but with my late start and my age it just isn't going to be possible. I will be just as happy with 2. I am still secretly hoping for twins!

Bea - LOVE the nursery! Love love love it! I love to decorate and seriously can't wait to get a start on ours as soon I get pregnant again. We already picked out the furniture and we have ideas on how we want the room.

Bex - Hope you O soon! I too am unsure when I will O as I decided to start the B6 to help my LP. I read that it helps to balance out hormones so I am thinking that maybe I might O earlier this month but then again maybe not! I like your BD plan!

Lisette - Glad you got to catch up on some sleep this weekend. Sounds much needed! And hooray for bloods tomorrow!

Hands - Love that you guys are so planned out! I am a true planner myself! My friends love the show Dexter too!

Nic - Funny that you and your sisters used to argue over the name! Cute! I don't think I will have that problem as neither of my sister want any children.

CH - Sounds like you had a great time with family and friends. We love football as well but mostly watch NFL and not too much College. I saw AR won too!!

AFM, we started SMEP today! Totally sticking to it as well! I promise! Had to do some ninja BDing as my cousin and her friend were still in town. We dropped them off at the airport a few hours ago to go home. It's been nice having them visit and spend some time. We did a ton of stuff while they were here - we had a super busy weekend! Our Hockey team didn't win again on Friday at the game we went to - but we were on TV!!

My temp is up today but I think it is because I slept horribly and even had a few drinks last night!

Can't believe that hubby starts another semester of school tomorrow. Time sure is flying by!

 

[NotNic]

Snowflakes growing up my sisters and I could argue over anything! My middle sister is an expert wind up merchant, the youngest soo stubborn and I was always a smart alec! we used to drive each other crazy! There's only 4 yrs between us though and I think that's why we used to clash so much. We'd always stick up for each other though. Only we were allowed to be mean to each other. No one else!

Hands I love nameberry! I think i'll follow your lead and do a list for oh to go through. This child will probably be here and home before oh makes a sensible suggestion!

Yay for SMEP Snow! You never know you could get twins this time!
Xx

 

[Srbjbex]

Bea - I think I would like 3 children, although dont think I would mind 4. i really liked growing up in a big family, so I would want the same.

Snow - I ahve had a temp dip this morning so i think I might be gearing up to O...normally i have a big dip and then a few days later a smaller dip which is when I O. I have also noticed soem EWCM I hope this is it!! I feel like i am doing everything righ this month!

Hands - just for fun I have chosen my favourite combos out of your lists so mine are........... girl: Viola Elizabeth boy: Gabriel Benjamin

Nic - our surname is Jones, which also rules out some of my favourite names (Joshua, Jacob, George) and I dont want to alliterate!

 

[InHisHands]

Yay Bex!!!! Tell hubby to go get that egg!!

BTW i think Viola Elizabeth sounds great, and of course i love Gabriel Benjamin!!!!!

 

[NotNic]

Bex - Our surname is Nicholson which rules out Jack(!) and quite a few other boys names. Also it doesn't flow very well with a lot of names (the harsh c, and too many syllables) and the -son ending rules out a lot of 'trendy' boys names likes Harrison. There's not so many famous female Nicholsons - so we have less of an issue!

 

[CHDickey]

Wow chatty ladies!

Bea- your nursery is so pretty!! I LOVE the crib!!

Names, oh names... Y'all think you have it hard with jones and Nicholson? At least it isn't Dickey. Talk about hard to come up with names that our children won't be crucified for in middle school... we have come up with David Andrew, Benjamin Edward, Nancy Layne, and Tinley Marie. It took us NO time with boy names but forever with girls. The boy names are all family names and Nancy was my mothers name. So you know we could possibly change our mind by the time this ever works out... Fingers crossed!

 

[MrsBea23]

CH - ROFL you crack me up. Did DH get picked on at school because of Dickey, kids can be mean I guess. We have a David Dickinson on telly over here not sure if David Dickey might not get a bit of greif though eek.

Nic - Ah is that why you are notnic? If you like Harrison then there is always Harris Nicholson I love Harris it is a Scottish Island, if I had had a boy 1st he would of been Lewis or Harris but now I am going down a different route. I like themes you see. DH has come home tonight and said he doesn't think Ariana is very good becuase if she is blonde and blue eyed like him it is a bit like Arian race sigh, he wants us to re visit Italian names. My last name is Fletcher so not bad goes with most things, lots easier than my maiden name which no one could even say properly lol.

Bex - Oooh exciting. So if you O on Thursday what CD would that be for you? lots of dust coming your way. Jones is a great last name just maybe not Bridgete for a daughter lol.

Snow - Really pleased you had such a nice weekend. Lots of coming your way as well I would also love a triple BFP this month how cool would that be. I was 34 in December eeek I can definitely feel time ticking on lol, will certainly only be 2 for me.

Hands - I love lots of names on your list, I might show DH your list and see if we pick the same. It is amazing how much stuff babies need and it fills a room pretty quickly!

Lisette - I hope you are feeling less exhausted this week hun .

 

[InHisHands]

Bea - sounds great! Let me know how it goes.

 

[NotNic]

Yep Bea. It's because I'm not a Nicholson! I really, really didn't want to lose my maiden name, but it caused too many rows, especially with my inlaws so I gave in. My user name is my own private rebellion! I would also like to use the name Cillian as a middle name if we ever have a son, as one of the meanings of the name is said to be from the Celtic word for my maiden name. Don't know if I can convince OH though.

We have a nephew called Harry, so I think we'll have to keep looking. I love the name Louis (loo-ey) which is similar to Lewis but OH says no.

Also I can't believe that I missed your birthday last month. Did you do anything nice? xx

 

[NotNic]

Oh and Bea, while I can see what your OH means there's no guarantee that she will be blonde once the baby hair falls out. My parents agreed on two names for me. One if I was born blonde and one if I was brunette. I was strawberry blonde when I was born. but I had turned sandy brown as a toddler and dark by the time I went to school. I'm now naturally have chocolate brown hair. My parents theory completly backfired! By all rights I should have been a Danielle!

 

[CHDickey]

Does anyone know how to upload a photo from iPhone?

 

[NotNic]

I don't I'm afraid. I ended up emailing the pic to myself and then doing it from the pc. Sorry. x

 

[snowflakes120]

I took my hubby's last name that is Irish and starts with an O'... My maiden last name was super long (13 letters) and super hard to pronounce (think Polish) so I couldn't wait to get a nice easy name. Because my last name starts with a vowel I don't like alot of names that start with vowels like we could never use Olivia or Owen. Some names I do like though. Right now our favorite girl name is Emory Marie.

I never thought of different names based off hair color when our LO would be born! I have blonde hair and hubby has brown hair so I guess it could go either way. I was bald forever - my mom used to call me her little hard boiled egg when I was a baby because I was sooo blonde. I finally got a bit of hair when I was 2!!

CH - I have no clue about pictures! I think I used photobucket to post a pic of our dog.

 

[CHDickey]

Ok. I just took two opks today one at 1 and the other at 4:30. The first one had a faint line but the later one was much darker. Just wanted your input! I will get on our computer here in a bit!

 

[CHDickey]

Let' ssee if it worked. The top is the 1:00 OPK and the bottom is the 4:30. Please let m eknow what y'all think. It has been since September since I have even tried using OPKS.!

 

[MrsBea23]

Hands - We both really like Adelaide off you list but I think it might be a bit much calling her after an Australian city lol.

Nic - Ha ha you are funny it is hard when you want to keep your maiden name I love that your rebel on here though, it is easier taking theirs my passport that I moved here on is Italian (never got an Australian visa or anything) so I am seen as an Italian citizen not Australian or British. In Italy they dont change their name when they get married (like allot of Europe) so my passport had to stay in my maiden name so because my Italian one was in my maiden name I kept my Australian one in my maiden name as well but everything else my license and pension/tax etc are all in my married name it can cause quite a confusion sometimes I must say. So when I am booking flights and hotels together I have to use both names for flights and because I am always the one booking often when we are in a hotel and they call us by my maiden name lol.
My birthday is the 23rd of December and I wasn't on here much around that time I was so hectic with Christmas lunches and parties and things, DH and I went out for a nice meal on my birthday but because of the date I never really make a big deal of it everyone is so busy around that time of year.
My dad was from Sardinia so I am quite dark and I think my genes will win out for the hair anyway so she will have dark hair but my eyes are a bit wishy washy hazel and DHs are super blue so I wouldn’t be surprised if his genes win there and we might have a dark hair blue eyed baby which would be nice.
Last night when looking at Italian names we found Arianna which is Italian so although I like the spelling Ariana better DH likes it again now that it is Italian.

Snow – Ha ha a little egg. I had crazy dark curls and looked like a monkey when I was little!
I like Emory it is unusual.
Snow you should go to Ireland and check out your hubby’s heritage and then pop over and visit us.

CH – Definitely as dark as the line so it looks like O to me I would say you will O tonight (I used to O after I got the darkest I got) and then you have 12 hours to make sure you catch that egg wee hee.

 

[MrsBea23]

Ooh just realised I have 99 days to go double digits woo hoo.

 

[InHisHands]

CH - If you take the test again today i bet it will be just as dark, if not darker. I would say you probably are going to ovulate today based on your test results. Congrats!!! Be sure to hunt down hubby.


As for my baby... i'm not quite sure what he or she will look like. My hubby and i both have dirty blond hair. I have blue-green eyes and he has blue eyes. I would imagine most likely our child will have dark blond hair or a light brown hair

... but baby's grandparents are a different story.

I don't look like my siblings. My father is 1/8th native american dark hair, dark skin and im the only sibling with blond hair and pale skin. The rest have black hair and darker skin. So i don't know if there is a part of me that still carries that darker gene or if i got skipped? Anyways my father has black hair and my mother has medium brown hair. My hubby's mom has light brown hair and his dad has a really dark brown/blackish hair. If baby came out with dark hair, it wouldn't suprise me... but might suprise everyone else around us who don't know our parents.