A Strong Name

I do have to admit that I am not so good and making sure that I write/update my blog very often.  Last year Chris thought it was a good idea that I do something like this instead of buying journals all the time, which after much pondering I set up my blog for my little family, and I love being able to post pictures and updates on here.  Plus later I can have it all printed out like a yearbook for my kids in the future to read and laugh about.  I hope they find what I write worth reading.

I am officially 27 weeks along with little William Barrett Jensen...yep, we have decided on a name for our little baby boy #2.  I have to share on how we decided on his name though, for later it would be nice for him to look back at this and know how special he really is to us.  Several weeks before we found out that we were having a boy, I was on my way to work and before getting onto the freeway I had the overwhelming feeling that our baby was a boy and that his name would be Barrett...interesting!  I didn't say anything about it to anyone because I didn't want to be one of those parents that was guessing an opposite gender then what we were really having and then the child growing up thinking "mom wanted a girl and got me instead."  Which is what I felt with my mom.  So when we did found out that William was actually a he I shared this information with Chris about me feeling that he was a boy and the name of 'Barrett'.  He was so excited about it, because his first thought was that it was a name of a guy off of Final Fantasy 7, a game Chris enjoyed playing growing up...lol!  Not what I was thinking, but okay.   After about a month a half of mulling over names and trying to get daddy involved in helping find a name he came to me with a name that blew me out of the water.  As a family we went to Applebees for dinner that evening Chris took his last final to celebrate him finishing up the semester.  Mer and I had made a mini list of names that we wanted to bounce off of Chris to see what he thought, we thought about them long and hard as we waited for him to finish up his test.  Before I could get the names out of my mouth, daddy said, "what about William Barrett?"  Uh!?  This shocked me, since Chris never have once came up with a serious name that he wanted to consider, not even with Clayton.  Hmmm...after thinking about the name for a few days it started to grow on me as that was it.  I told Yamishiro, our OB what our name was, and it was in that moment that it clicked and I felt so much peace about it all...that is to be his name.  I came home from my appointment thinking, 'I think we have it.'  Later that night, something was getting to me about the name though.  I asked Chris why was it that he suggested that name over every one that I have tried listing off to him for months.  His response was this:  I had a dream a couple of days of go and in that dream I had a little boy named William.  So I thought about it for like a day and a half and it just felt so right, so that is why I thought I told you.  Plus it just goes well with his big brother's name and it has a strong first name, a unique middle and together it was strong.  And that is how he left it...and with all that how could I not say 'yes, yes, that is his name.'
We can't wait to meet our little man and to see him for the first time, Clayton is even excited and asks when will he come out.

Play time

I had the opportunity to take Clayton to the Children's Museum on April 24th with his best buddy Maddox.  He always gets so sad to leave, but that day I was so ready to not be there all day.  The museum had field trip after field trip.  Regardless, I was one happy mama, he was behaving so well that I couldn't be prouder of him that day.  Lindsey had to chase Maddox around the whole place and he just kept screaming and throwing a fit, it was just so nice to not be that parent that day.

Chris and I went on a double date with Mer and Stephen Larson last Thursday.  It was so much fun.  The guys planned it and had us going to Planet Play were we got to play in the arcade, play a game of laser tag and mini golf, and we ate tons of food.  This is Chris's favorite picture from that night, the one with his face in the girl's body, he is so silly and makes me laugh.  We haven't been on a fun date in a really long night, one in which we laughed and just played like we were dating again.  I have to say, with kids, school, and work, it is hard to find time to spend with each other in which we can go out and be kids ourselves.

Clayton was invited to play at Bouncing Off the Walls for Alma's 10th birthday party.  He had so much fun, and needless to say, his daddy did too.  Chris always complains that he doesn't get enough exercise, well he did that night.  The got to play on bouncy houses, basketball, and climb giant slides to just go down.  There was one bouncer that you had to climb, but the pegs to climb up on were missing so it make it an extra hard obstacle thing...but between Nathaniel and Chris, the figured out a way to play on it with Clayton and Hikaru, they just threw the kids up on it man powered it up...lol!

These two little kids just crack me up.  After 2.5 years they still know how to have fun with each other, from learning how to eat and roll over together to play boxing and playing dress up...they make us laugh.  I hope Clayton and Maddox can stay the best of buds forever.