Random Randomness...

• Apparently some people feel like this is contrary to human nature, but I will not touch any pumpkin dessert with a ten-foot pole. Save your pies, your cookies, and your breads for someone else...I ain't interested. (For that matter, you can hang onto your pumpkin soups and risottos, too. As far as I'm concerned pumpkins are meant to be carved, not eaten.)

  
  

• I love me some Cool Ranch Doritos. But, how can something so yummy cause such a horrible taste in your mouth for hours to come. Even worse is smelling such nasty breath on a two year old when I share my chips. Might I recommend never eating these chips, and then falling asleep. The taste is your mouth upon waking rivals straight up raw sewage. Trust me one this one...



• Kevin got a job!!! Woop, Woop! Looks like Santa's coming after all, kids! Proud of you, babe!

• So I'm four months along these days. Awkwardly busting out of everything I own and not fitting into any of my maternity clothes yet--does wonders for your self-esteem. We're finding out the baby's gender in about three weeks. So excited. I have always thought we'd have two girls in a row. Financially speaking, having a girl would be easy, we've got everything we need. And I think it would be fun for Claire to have a little sister to play with and dress up with, and I'd like to think of them being really close over the years. I can just hear the shrieks about who borrowed whose shirt now...
  BUT, a boy would be soooo great. One of each, so that it would never matter from here on out what we have. That token boy for Kevin to instill all his macho wisdom to. I picked up some cute decor at a thrift store, that would be perfect in a little boy's room. That handsome little boy that Claire can boss around and make a prince whenever she wants. That little boy that's going to make it so that we don't have to have six kids--according to Kevin, he's willing to have up to six kids in an attempt to get at least one boy. If that's going to be the case, he'll have to take a few turns the last two or three pregnancies. And less jokingly, in the off chance that we encounter more fertility woes in the future, and maybe we're done, we'll have one of each...
  But truly, we'll be happy either way. Have I mentioned how wonderful and blessed I feel to be pregnant again at all! We are so excited for this little one, so when it comes down to it, we'll take whatever we can get!
  We were suckered into trying the Intelligender kit--a little thing you pee in and it tells you the gender of the baby as soon as 10 weeks into the pregnancy. It boasts 90% accuracy, but we'll have to see. I won't tell you what it said yet...But I will let ya know if this thing's worth buying on your next pregnancy.