More Ice Skating

Last weekend Drew took Lizzie ice skating again--even though he felt very sick. Poor guy. I went with them because Lizzie wanted to show off her skating skills and I wanted to get some pictures.

Alaina fell asleep on the way over so I spent the whole time holding her and reading a baby name book so no pictures on the ice . . .

. . . and Liz got pretty sick of taking pictures in the stands (waiting for the Zamboni).

Thank goodness Andrew played a little ice hockey when he was a kid because now he can teach Liz (and me) to skate.

Horesy Ride

Alaina was really excited to join in the fun.

Andrew said, "Stand near her Jill. I'm afraid she'll fall off."

I said, "Okay, okay. Just let me get a quick picture."

I got this one. I got in position to take just one more. . . .

And then both girls tumbled off (poor Liz was trying to save her sister). And then they cried.

And then Drew gave me one of those looks.
At least it was fun while it lasted.

The Name Game

I have finished reading our most recent baby name book. Drew has not. I shared my tentative list today and he vetoed more than half of it. Some of the casualties:

Adele, Bronte, Camille, Delilah (thanks to bad biblical connotation), Gavrielle, Isaura, Josephine ("I'm not going to name my girl Josephine, it doesn't matter how many times you put it on the list."), Kamilah, Larissa, Malina, Margaret ("absolutely no"), Marisa, Nina, Odessa, Phaedra, Rabiah (Arabic for spring which is when our baby will be born - Drew didn't care), Roxanne/a (no, thanks to Sting's song about a hooker), Sabine, Sadira, Scarlett, Simone, Talia, Tamar, Tanis, Teresa, Yvette, Zahara, & Zoe.

In addition, Andrew doesn't seem to like boy names for girls so he cut: Brice (I've always loved this for a girl's name), Devin, Kendall, Quincy, Quinn, Reese, Romney, Tamsin, Tate.

We pretty much both agreed to nix any names that both started and ended in A because they would be too similar to Alaina, so goodbye to: Amara, Anna & Ava, though we are keeping Amelia & Anastasia because we aren't ready to part with them yet.

Also nixed are versions of Elizabeth: Liesel & Lisette.

Liz liked the name Beatrice, but no thanks (and your welcome Future Baby).

Long Weekend

I love long weekends and am so sad this one is over. We relaxed, napped, went to the gym, and ran errands. I went to Unique thrift today because on Monday holidays everything is half off. I have never been in a busier, more crowded store (not even at Christmastime). While I battled the crowds, Drew and Liz went ice skating.

I think they made a better choice.

Gender Cake

We announced the sex of our new baby to Lizzie with a "gender cake." She was pretty excited to slice it up. The result?

It's a GIRL!
Video pending

We have our sonogram tomorrow

Anyone want to make a prediction?

Pictures of the girls

I'm surprised we ended up with these pictures because neither of the girls were cooperative. We were able to get a few shots of them together because Andrew was jumping in and out of the room, making them laugh.