Thanks guys for all your congrats! I have to say....I am finding out I was meant to be pregnant! My body loves it and so do I!!!! My sugars are down without me even having to stress about them being too high. I am happy....I am happy to get up in the morning so I can spend the day dreaming about this baby and his or her life. I have a gut instinct that it's a girl. Rob really would like a boy...but I think it's a girl.

We have names picked out already either way.... Cooper Jay Allen if it's a boy and Abigail Elizabeth Allen if it's a girl. We decided on the colors for the nursery and the theme last night. The bottom 2/3's of the room is going to be a pale green and the top third is going to be a pale yellow. We are putting a Winne the Pooh boarder around the room and his/her name in letters spelled out above the closet. Rob's already got plans for a "Pooh Corner" where he's going to put a shelf with all the characters. He's so excited...it's adorable.

Rob wants a white crib...I want a cherry or walnut colored nursery. We shall see what happens on that front. We went nursery furniture shopping last night. We found that this kid is gonna be a black hole for money. The set I wanted was oh let me see....369 for the crib 499 for the dressor....209 for the changing table...we are at over 1000 and we haven't even bought the kid a mattress yet. LOL. Reality is we will get a whole set for 300 to 400.

We really need a bigger place with the baby...but we decided last night we are going to downsize our stuff and make this place work for another year. We simply don't have the funding at this point to afford rent or a house payment for a house.

Not sure at all what we are going to do once I need to go back to work. I've always wanted to be a stay at home mommy. I've sworn I would never put my child in child care...you'd think I'd learn NOT to "swear never to" anything because I always end up doing that very thing somewhere down the line....but nope I don't learn that quickly I suppose. I think what very well may end up happening is that I work nights and he works days until he gets another promotion at work and we can afford for me to stay at home. It would be easy enough once I am at home to pick up a child for child care in my home and make some extra on the side money. I would still love to be a foster parent...but I am not sure that Rob could handle it. He gets pretty attached and is really protective and I can see there could be some issues handing a baby back to a parent he doesn't feel is adequate to parent.

I don't know so much to think about. So much to plan for. We are planning to send the baby to Thunderbird as long as we still live in the Phoenix area.

Work calls again so enough writing for now.