Baby Makes Three

My husband and I have been married for a little over three years now. When we got married, we decided to wait to have kids for three to five years. We just wanted some time as a twosome to do what we wanted when we wanted and just enjoy each other’s company.

Well, last November, about one month before our third anniversary, we got a surprise. I was pregnant. I’d been on the pill for almost four years, so needless to say we were a little shocked. It’s a good thing for sure though. Having kids was something we’d been discussing more in recent months anyway. We’d just never made a concrete decision about anything. Turns out we didn’t need to, It was already made for us.

So as of today, I am twenty weeks along. We go in for my ultrasound next Thursday, so we still don’t know just what little “junior” is yet. We do have names picked out for either a boy or girl. Our girl name is Hannah Gael. I’ve had my heart set on that one for a couple of years so there really wasn’t a lot of discussion.

For a boy, we agreed on Eli Andrew. The choice for a boy was a little harder to come by though. For the longest time, every name I suggested my husband said no to. He’s a cop and every name I liked was also the name of someone he’d arrested before.

At one point, a coworker lent me a copy of Who’s Who In The Bible to get some ideas for names. I ran across Eli right away. If any of you are familiar with Old Testament stories, Eli was a priest who prayed for a barren woman, Hannah, to be able to have a child. When she gave birth to her son, Samuel, she sent him to the temple to be raised by Eli.

I liked the connection between the two names and my husband has never arrested anyone by the name of Eli. So for a boy, it will be Eli Andrew (Andrew is my husband’s middle name).

Along with choosing names, we’ve been pretty busy doing other things to get ready. I just got my stroller/travel system this week and I’m in love with this thing. I never imagined I could get so excited over a stroller. We have a crib and some clothes. Our parents have given us a few thing, including the blankets each of us used as babies. My mom even had the mobile from my crib and it still works and plays music.

We have also discovered that we’re quickly running out of space and Junior’s not even here yet. We live in a 2BR/2BA duplex, which was a bit tight for the two of us. We were pretty worried about how the space issue was going to be resolved.

Then we found out about a house for rent.
It’s across the street from another deputy who works with my husband, down the street from the sheriff and in the same general neighborhood as a couple of Highway Patrolmen. Pretty safe place right?

The best thing is that it has so much more space. It has another bedroom and a 3 car garage, all for not much more than we pay for our place right now.

So we’ll be moving in about a month, just in time to get a nursery all put together for Hannah or Eli.