Chase Michael Watterson

Well here it is! Our son's name! Chase Michael Watterson! We're really excited about it! Preston is the one who originally came up with the name Chase. I believe we were looking through some baby name books and it really caught his eye. This was several weeks ago and we've had it high on our prospect list ever since. We decided on Michael because my dad's name is Mike (and it sounded good with Chase!) My parents wanted to name each one of their children Michael but we all turned out to be girls so that didn't work out too well for them!

Preston and I had a great weekend around here running errands, doing house stuff, and hanging out with friends. We managed to continue the process of clearing out the nursery. We're getting there. Did I mention that the bedding came in the mail! It's really cute. Now I guess the next step is to go pick out paint swatches and get this room painted. I'll let you know what we decide. We also bought a glider from Target on Saturday. But when we went to put it together it was all scratched up. We took it back but they were out so we didn't get to replace it. So then I was mad at Target so we went to look at Babies R Us. But theirs are so much more expensive and didn't have the exact color I wanted so I'm sure we'll suck it up and just go get the one from Target when more come in. Oh but don't even worry about asking if they will hold one for you when they come in...they don't do that...and they don't have any idea when a new one will come in. I usually like Target...but not that day.

I'm feeling great this week. My back hasn't been as achy as it had been the last couple of weeks so that's good. I'm finding that it's getting hard to do some things that require bending at the waist and leaning forward. Last night I was working on a puzzle on the coffee table in the living room and couldn't find a good position to work in. Sitting on the ground wasn't so great...and sitting on the couch leaning over to the table wasn't good at all. But I managed for a while until I got bored with it. (By the way, it's not like I'm nerdy and do puzzles often...I just felt like it this one time...I'm cool...seriously.)

Chase is kicking me right now. I can look down and just see my belly moving around. Wow! It's cool to call him by his name!

Here's a 23 week picture. It's weird for me to look at. I don't feel like I have that much extra weight sticking out the front there. I feel the same most of the time...