Introducing the New Kid!

I was going to officially introduce Baby Girl on the blog yesterday, but things were a bit incredibly crazy around here.  First we went to storyhour at the library, then to my sister's house for lunch since we didn't have time to go home before Princess needed to be at preschool.  After I dropped Princess off at preschool, I took Little Man and the baby to an appointment that took almost 2 hours and made me late picking Princess up from preschool.  From preschool, we went straight to Princess's violin lesson (which we were also late for).  While she was at her lesson, I went to the grocery store to buy formula only to discover that the store I was at didn't carry Similac (seriously, people?!?).  Picked Princess up from her violin lesson and went to a different grocery store to finish the grocery shopping and finally went home after being gone for over seven hours!  We walked in the door, and I was feeling considerably overwhelmed (hey, I gave birth just 11 days ago and, as any mother will tell you, sleep deprivation is brutal!).  Little Man immediately started throwing a tantrum over, well, nothing and that was the last straw.  Thankfully, Hubby was still home getting ready to head off to work so I took a few minutes to have a good cry in my room with the door closed before coming out to pass out snacks and turn on my favorite purple dinosaur, Barney.  It's all about survival at this point, folks!

So anyways...

A day late, but here she is!

Introducing Star!

 When we first told Princess she was getting a new baby brother or sister, she told us we had to name the baby "Star."  It didn't make it on the list of name possibilities (especially after the ultrasound said it was a boy!), but I thought it would be perfect to use here on the blog.   


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Surprise!

Yesterday was my due date. I'm still here. I'm pretty much expecting to have to be induced, but hopefully I'll be surprised.

Speaking of surprises...my sister had her baby. I don't remember if I mentioned this, but she was due to have a baby girl April 10th while I was due to have my baby boy yesterday. We figured that was perfect. We'd swap baby clothes and neither of us would have to buy much more than a few bibs and pacifiers. We'd gotten all the baby clothes out of storage, and each of us had filled our baby's dresser drawers with gender appropriate clothes. Or so we thought. On Friday, at 13 days overdue, my sister had to be induced. I have to be honest, her hubby is a bit of a joker so when he called me at 8 pm that night and announced "It's a boy!" I insisted on speaking with my sister before I could actually believe that she had given birth to a 9 pound 14 ounce baby BOY. My first thought was...well, I'm not actually sure because I was so positive she was having a girl that I was in shock. My second thought was "Oh shoot." Prior to finding out what the genders of our babies were, my sister and I had agreed that she got first dib on the boys clothes if we both had boys and vice versa. So, 4 days before my due date, I found myself packing up all the clothes and baby boy stuff and giving it back to my sister. She was nice enough to return the newborn size clothing to me since her bouncing baby boy was already too big for them, but other than that, all I had were a few pieces of miscellaneous clothing I'd picked up because I thought they were cute. To a woman who's 9 months pregnant, it was devastating because let's face it, when you're pregnant everything is worse than it needs to be. I must have complained about it to enough people though, because less than a week later, I now have everything I need plus offers for more.

Unsolicited Advice:
Don't ever assume an ultrasound will be 100 percent correct in predicting the gender of your baby!