"D"

Well, we have 60 days left until this little guy's due date.And the suspense is fun but we have decided to tell our little secret.  The secret that really we have only known for a week....


"D's" name:

Deakin Devereaux Anderson

The background behind Mr. Deakin's name, was as I told Maceo, how we would figure out "D's" name.  I told him we had this list of names and it would be some name that one of us would say to the other and it would be the one.  We had our list of names and would randomly "vote" on the names that we liked the best.  Then one night, sure enough, Maceo after listening to the same names for a while said...."What about Deacon?" I said "YES!" but I said that the spelling would have to be different.  So, we played with the spellings and came to love D-E-A-K-I-N. 

Deakin \de(a)-kin\ as a boy's name has the meaning "dusty one; servant; messenger" and is a variant of Deacon (Greek): a deacon is a ministerial assistant in a Christian congregation.

Other spellings:

Deacon

Deakon

Deecon

Deekon

Registries for D

Maceo, Isla and I had a busy day of registering for "D".  We registered at Buy Buy Baby and at Babies R Us.  We are planning on also registering at Target, but we just ran out of husband and sister shopping tolerance.

We figured we should set something up just incase someone wanted to know what we wanted or needed.  It was fun to scan the items and discuss if we thought a certain item would come in handy.


Buy Buy Baby ( Ignore the fact that the lady put our due date as the 12th....it is the 21st)


Babies R Us



We finished Target the following the weekend...


Target
(Yes, there is a mini fridge--Maceo and I were always talking about how it would have been nice to have a fridge for Isla when she was little to be able to freeze her milk or keep her bottles close.  Because when you are more than half asleep trying to get things ready-something closer would have been nicer....SO, why not try for "D"  since they share a room.  We can have both of their Milks, etc. in it).

So, it's been a while.....

A couple of months have passed since the last post...and update for this blog....Sorry.  Life happens and you sometimes do not have the time (especially with a toddler). 

August was a busy month for us Andersons.

 My B.I.G. 3-0.  Yikes!!   I couldn't celebrate like most celebrate but we still celebrated in the best way we could.  Maceo took me for a hair cut (I needed some serious tender loving care of the hair).  I added my bangs back and contemplated putting my layers back but just took it to one length.  My mother purchased my favorite Shampoo and Conditioner.  Paul Mitchell Awapuhi Shampoo and the Detangler Conditioner.  With my new do and products my hair has been happy! 

Maceo had a friend come from California (I call him his girl friend).  Long story... They celebrated his birthday. 

Isla had gotten sick shortly after Maceo's Birthday.  It was a HELL of a sickness.  She was retracting when she was breathing.  Turns out she has RAD- Reactive Airway Disease and URI- Upper Respiratory Infection and acute serous otitis media (bilateral) aka collection of fluid in middle ear of the right ear.  It was a joy (especially since she was teething at the same time).  I was told if we hadn't have gotten Isla in when we did she would have been heading to the ER, for how bad she was.  I said well, I was working with what they had available for the doctor's office openings.  We had made it home after 3 hours.  I was worn out, but Isla was  breathing "better" we did 2 treatments of albuterol at the doctor's office.  We still had some --we still had some wheezes and crackles but we had improved air entry.  We also were prescribed we will be Prednisolone and the use of  Tylenol.  She didn't have much of an appetite.  She had been refusing fluids, and after the treatments she was starting to take them better.  It took a few weeks but she had gotten better and I was very happy when she was feeling more like herself again.   

Isla had her last week at Generation Next in Ankeny.  It was bittersweet, but it was nice the next week she would be starting at Generation Next in Johnston (the one I work at).  It has been a time saver in the mornings.  And extremely nice to see her throughout the day.  She waves and blows me kisses as I do to her.  And somedays (ok, almost everyday) she will come to my gate to give me real kisses.  It is the best to be able to watch her as she plays with her friends as we are outside with her friends at the same time.  I made her a dress for her to wear during her first week (I was thinking about having her wear it on her first day, but I wanted to do some finishing touches before I sent her to school with it).  She was adorable!!!!

We had a bat in our house one night.  Maceo was able to coax it out with some careful thought.  It was cute, but I am sure that Isla, myself (unborn child) and Maceo probably shouldn't be around it (or it's feces).  It must have come in when I had let Charlie out for "night night potty" the last time he goes out before we all go to sleep.  It had to have flown through our house to get to our stairwell.  Maceo "ran" across the little bat as he was doing something.  It was hanging off of the baby gate we have at the top of the stairs.  We shut the bathroom door and kitchen door so it was "trapped" in the basement/stairwell.  He went after it to help get it out of the house.  As he was trying to get it to fly out of the house it flew towards him making the bat screech.  I am sure it was scary, but Maceo yelled "Wrong way Bro!" (Sorry, but I couldn't stop laughing-I couldn't see anything but still hilarious!!!).  He ended up "catching" the bat in some dirty clothes that I had thrown down the stairs, carrying it up the steps and throwing them/it out the door.  

Another fun adventure we had was going to an ISU Game.  IT WAS HOT!!!!!  And Maceo parked all the way practically on the other side of Ames, and we WALKED!!!!  I told him I was pretty sure  that he was trying to walk his son out of me.  Maceo's boss had given him tickets for the game.  It was fun.  That's about all I have to say about that, mainly because they lost.  


So far, September has been fast.  

Maceo put together Isla's "kitchen" she loves it.  She has had it since her birthday (May).  Now we are looking for pots, pans, plates, and play foods.  

We had another baby appointment yesterday.  Everything is fine-He is growing and so am I.  Although, I haven't gained much, but I will take that-most of my gain has happened in the last month (I blame the McDonald's Fries cravings).


We will just have to see where the rest of the month takes us!  But tonight Maceo had a work trip and Isla decided it was time to go to bed at 7:15 pm.  So I decided to take advantage and try to update this.