Husbands--gotta love 'em

Well--My husband decided to pull the ultimate prank on me and my entire family last weekend. As most of you know, we are HUGE Ohio State Buckeye fans, and the big game was last weekend. We were facing Michigan for the Big 10 title and a trip to the Rose BOwl. I have always felt like Barney just didn't get the rivalry--Now I know he doesn't:

baby names, and pointless ramblings...

A number of people have asked me if we have names picked out yet for this new munchkin and the simplest answer is, kind of. The boy's name is down to 2 or 3different options, both of which honor our deceased Grandfathers---they are:
Donald James (my maternal and paternal grandfathers names)
Donald Judd (okay that one is really obvious)
Henry Donald (Barney's paternal grandfather who passed last year, and my maternal grandfather)

Girls names?!?! That is a whole different can of worms. I'm really not quite sure where it came from, but the name Evelyn Susanne is the latest girl's name that we like. I hope no one grows to attached to it, because if history repeats itself--every girl's name we have agreed on thus far in this pregnancy has been vetoed w/in about a week or 2 of its original acceptance.

I think the thing that I am most excited about with this pregnancy is that I will most-likely not be returning to work after the baby is born. It just doesn't seem to make sense financially at this point for us to do that-----but we'll see what happens when the baby is 10/12 weeks old. I am absolutely ecstatic about the possibility of being home to raise this baby, and continue to raise Justin and Ada Grace. I know that my aunt Donna loves them immensely, and I could not begin to ask for them to receive more love and better care than they have gotten from her---its just that I want to be the first one to see this baby crawl, walk, sit up, roll over. I want to hear his/her first words. I have wanted that with all of our children, it just wasn't possible financially until now.

I am officially out of the 1st trimester now, and starting to get some energy back now. THe only real symptom I'm having now is HORRIBLE sciatic nerve pain. I'm going to try something tomorrow that I never thought I would-----Acupuncture. I have known numerous people who have had great success with it, and quite frankly, the pain has been bad enough that I really believe if someone told me at this point that the only cure was standing on my head for the next 6 months, I'd try it.

Sometimes I look around at my life and have to pinch myself. I have been so blessed by God with a wonderful husband, and beautiful, healthy, happy children. Every now and then I catch myself asking God if I really deserve all of this? I mean, who grows up and gets everything they ever wished for---down to the right type of house. I always wanted a "cape cod" style house with a porch I could hang ferns from--guess I should have figured out how to keep them alive first, huh?!?!

Thank you all for your thoughts, prayers and concerns. This pregnancy is flying by, and in no time, I'm sure we'll be bringing home Baby #3. At that point, you may need to visit Barney and I in Dorothea Dix, but he or she will be TOTALLY worth it!!!

Thanks again for all of your love and concern!

Krista

And now.....

The pictures of Munckin #3. I had an ultrasound today and everything looks GREAT!

Ada---being just like her name sake

For those of you who don't know, Ada Grace is named after my great-grandmother. "great" though is the understatement of the century. She was a wonderful woman who I was fortunate enough to know well since she lived until I was in my 2nd year of college. Anyone who knew nanny knew, that she hadn't been in the house more than about 5 minutes if she didn't have a dish towel thrown over her shoulder.....well, the dish towel is all that was missing for Ada in this little video--she definitely takes after her great-great grandmother! Nanny would be proud.

Ada and Justin, pics and videos

all that needs to be said.

Preschool

Well--its official--Justin is attending preschool. It is definitely a good thing, but one that we are really starting to work through. Justin has started to settle in now and thus is trying to test his limits and see just how far Miss Ann and Miss Kris will let him go. He is all of a sudden looking so grown up to me that it is almost frightening. He can usually spell his name, except for some reason he wants to call the "J" a "G".

As for my last announcement--we are expecting Blackburn Baby #3. I am due on May 16 but get to pick a birthday for this baby and I'm leaning towards May 6. (Tony Blair and Sigmund Freud were both born on this day.) I will be 10 weeks pregnant on Saturday and have been doing fairly well, except that I have been absolutely exhausted to the point of barely being functional. Thankfully I have only been sic 2x so far--which is GREAT, seeing as how I have a personal policy against vomitting!!

I'm going to try to do better about keeping up with posts and adding pictures more regularly. In the mean-time, here are some of the pictures from Justins 1st week of pre-school. Also--the first rumors of childhood crushes are floating around the blackburn house. Justin appears to be very fond of a girl in his class named Caroline. He tells us about her regularly, and has even told Auntie Donna about her.

Hope everyone is doing well!!
Krista

Cute Stories and a little news!!

Justin said the cutest thing ever last night. I think every parent that has multiple children hopes that the older ones will be protective of the smaller ones. WEll, Ada Grace is definitely our little climber and we've been having issues w/her trying to stand up on the coffee table, couch etc. Last night she climbed up on the coffee table and was trying to stand up. I took her down, popped her diaper and told her, "NO!" So Justin turns to her and says "Ada, you don't stand on the table." I intervened and told Justin that I was taking care of it...and it wasn't his job to say anything to Ada Grace. He looked at me with the most serious look ever on his face and said, "mommy, it is my job, I'm supposed to take care of Ada Grace." I just melted!!

Also--I think most of you know this already, but for those of you that don't, we just found out this week that we are expecting baby #3. If my figures are correct this baby would be due May 19, but delivered between the 5th and 12th. My first appointment isn't until October 4, so I'll keep everyone posted as we find things out.


I know its been forever since I've updated the blog, and I'm sorry for that. I'll try to do a better job in the future!!

Krista