Baby update

Baby update

Well a quick little update about where we are at in baby land. Remember our plan of attack?  Well I bet some were wondering when this plan was going to take place Christmas this year marks 1.5 years until we graduate.   A lot of people start trying for babies at the end of their graduate career in hopes that they will be pregnant while defending their thesis and moving on to a career.  We will be no different.  So not only did Christmas/New years mark a distinctive turn towards the end of our school days, but also a distinctive year mark for trying for a baby.  With my PCOS  an history of non-menstruation I think it will be an uphill battle ending in adoption... but we want to give it the old college try, cause who knows what will happen since we have never tried. Next Christmas/ New Year we will throw away the pills and bring on the baby making.  So Merry Christmas, and Happy 2012!  Many changes are in store for this next year.  Oh Baby.

Book Review: Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born

Book Review: Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born

This is a little different of a book review from the last two. Last time we had a PCOS information book, and an Adoption information book.   This book is actually a children's book.

Book Review of : Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born by Jamie Lee Curtis 

I came across this book when searching for adoption books.  It is not an informational book, but instead a cute childs rendering of a domestic infant adoption. 

It is a really cute story, and I about cried when I read it.  It tells a story of how the parents get a call, and take a plane ride to the hospital. They get to meet their new baby. Its about the unconditional love that the new parents feel for the baby.  How they have to travel, how the baby came from a birthmother, how they had to bring baby back on a plane and keep them protected from coughing passengers.  It perfect in every way.   I bought it, cause if we are going down the adoption road, this is exactly what it is going to be like, and I want to have this for our child.  Of course the story is light hearted and is not a detailed description of the infant adoption process, but is a wonderful age appropriate approach to the subject. 

The illustrations are bright and goofy.. lots to look at for many many re-tellings of the story.  So if you are doing domestic infant adoption.. grab this book for the kiddies, its totally worth it.

Overall I give this book a rating of 5 out of 5, a very good age appropriate approach to Infant adoption.

Christmas with a baby

Christmas with a baby

Well its that time of year... lights, eggnog, sleigh bells, falala la la la la.  This year, I still dont have a baby.  But I see all of those kids and parents enjoying christmas with santa, and vacationing and buying gifts.  It makes me long for a child more during this time of year than any other.   Here are a few things I would do if I had a baby at christmas..  (in pictures)

Dress them up in silly christmas outfits

Have lots of play time in front of our tree

Definitely have lots of professional pics taken of cute sleeping baby

Get screaming pictures taken with santa

Read The Night Before Christmas by a fireplace 

Go look at christmas lights 

Snuggle and watch christmas movies 

Of course these seem like simple things, but really what can you do with an infant at Christmas? You cant take them ice skating.  But you can love them and enjoy just being a family and starting to pass down traditions.  I love christmas.. cant wait till our first one with child.

Baby Name of the Month

Baby Name of the Month

Its that time of month again! Baby Name of the month is here, and I am bringing you one of my guilty pleasures in names today.

Holiday

Thats right, I wouldnt even think twice, I would definitely name a daughter Holiday, especially if she were born in the month of December.. which is why I chose this name to be BNOTM for this month!

So lets get into it.

First of all, I love theme names, as some might call them, names that go with the season, day, month that the child was born.. so like Autumn the popular girls name was once considered out there and weird to name your baby after a season, she is pretty normal these days.  So Holiday, would be a little out there but gosh how perfect would it be if she were born somewhere between Thanksgiving and New Years to call her Holiday.

 The name is so light and spunky, I just see a precocious little girl wearing bright clothes answering to the name Holiday.

Other places Holiday can be found?  Well who can forget the book and movie Breakfast at Tiffany's.  Her name is Holiday Golightly, she goes by Holly.  Yep thats right, one of the ultimate girly icon's name is Holiday. So it makes me love the name even more.

There was also Billie Holiday, this is a stretch cause it is a last name here, but Mariah Carey just famously name her kid after Marilyn Monroe by using her last name.

Speaking of celebrities, Nicole Kidman has a daughter Sunday Rose, so "day" names are starting to rise in use and not be so "weird" thats why I think Holiday is so perfect.  I too agree with Kidman that a "day" name is not quite as strikingly feminine so you must have a very frilly or flowery middle name to go with it..

Holiday is not in the US top 1000 names, so I love her rareness.. other good news?  Holly is only #412, so she is pretty rare as well.

Downsides to Holiday?  Well there is the obvious, I think I would get a lot of "scrunched noses" when asked what my baby's name was, but that doesnt bother me much because no matter what you name your child you will get scrunched noses. Second thing is, I am sure she would be just Holly, and while I like Holly enough, I love Holiday more and would lament the loss of the rest of the name if she started going by Holly.

 So, in conclusion.. Holiday is not on the top of the list, but i would be strongly tempted to use it for a December baby!