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[ellenmillion]

We moved back into the (finished!!!) bedroom last night, and I slept like a baby rock. I got a big cuddly body pillow a few days ago, and my whole sleeping arrangement is absolutely blissful. Artwork is up on the walls, curtains are hung; it looks like GROWN UPS live there, not college students in a cabin. I quite like it. And carpet on the feet when I get up! Glee! The whole configuration of the room is also more conducive to getting up quietly - I was able to go to the bathroom without waking Jake.

My doctor's appointment was rescheduled for this morning (she was delivering during my scheduled appointment yesterday, though I stuck around for my ultrasound appointment, obviously), so I'm doing some piddly, pokey programming and writing a blog post before showering and heading out.

Baby girl! I'm so excited! Not that I wouldn't have loved a boy, too, but I was sort of hoping for a girl. (If only to indulge my secret desire to build the awesome dollhouse I always wanted as a girl and now have the actual building skills to make.) This is great in some ways, and going to be harder in others... puberty arguably sucks more for girls, and I would have been able to foist the sex talk off on Jake if it had been a boy. My sister-in-law is already talking about PINK. Which is fine, in small doses... I also suspect my mother is dying to make clothing with frills and lace, which she hasn't gotten a chance to do in a very long time, with the nephews. (Though she sighs and speculates that a daughter of mine is likely to be quite a tomboy...)

About names: we haven't decided yet, though we've eliminated a lot of them. We've got a little while.

My inbox is really disastery right now, sorry for any reply delays, you guys...

And, shower now. I'm crossing my fingers for packages of coloring books and paints at the post office today!

Comments

[penmage.livejournal.com]

Yay, congrats! I felt the same way about E--I would have been thrilled with either, but I kinda wanted a girl a little bit more.

Woohoo for girls!

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Woo hoo indeed! :) So much I can't wait to share with her!

[aldersprig.livejournal.com]

Yay! Squeeeeeeee!

Also: My dad had the sex talk with me. It was the other one that Mom had (the menstruation one).

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Squeeee!!

Hmm... maybe I can still foist the sex talk off on him, then. He's already working on his threatening phrases. "You break her heart, and I'll break you, buddy..."

[aldersprig.livejournal.com]

Heee. :-)

I don't know if you listen to country, but there's this one:

Come on in boy sit on down
And tell me about yourself
So you like my daughter do you now?
Yeah we think she's something else
She's her daddy's girl
Her momma's world
She deserves respect
That’s what she'll get
Ain’t it son?
Hey y'all run along and have some fun
I'll see you when you get back
Bet I’ll be up all night
Still cleanin' this gun

(cached link (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Gmb7MloPo7wJ:www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/atkins-rodney/cleaning-this-gun-come-on-in-boy-17225.html+lyrics+cleaning+my+gun&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us))

[jenny_evergreen]

Yay!

I wanted girls but I'm glad I didn't get them. It would have been...messy.
If you want minimal pink, tell everyone you DON'T want pink, because you are going to get it anyway. And remind people that there is always an outside chance the ultrasound could be wrong, even if it was, like, 99%.

Feel free to raid my girl name deliberations. I have a names tag in my LJ. I won't be using them!

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Girls are weirdly more messy, I think, yes. I'd better get word out about the pink. :P

We were bandying about Rose, probably as a middle name, too. I think it eventually got added to the 'no' list. :P

[jenny_evergreen]

It's more complicated with girls in certain ways that I would not have handled very well, I think. It's tougher for dads with boys in the same sorts of ways, but Tom will weather it fine, so it's all for the best! :)
I agree with aldersprig, specifying what you DO want is good. I, of course, wanted green regardless!

Rose has Meaning for me, so it was stuck. I still like Olivia and Zoe a lot. I will shut up now. ;)

[jenny heidewald (from livejournal.com)]

My aunt is named Rose. :)

[aldersprig.livejournal.com]

*nods* not only "not pink" but "violet please" (or whatever); that seems to work.

[polarbee.livejournal.com]

I successfully kept pink at bay until Thadea was old enough to pick her own clothes. Sigh.

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

I doubt I will last that long! *laughs!*

[marrael.livejournal.com]

When I was 11 or 12, I found a UK-published book at the bookstore titled "Girl Talk" that was sex education, health education, dating and girls' safety tips all-in-one. I bought it, read it, and when my mum wandered worriedly into my room one day to give me The Talk, I showed her the book's table of contents and pretty much assured her I'd been taken care of. (With my mum, it probably worked out better that way, really. She was from a different generation with outdated ideas about sex/dating.)

Some time later, I overheard my mum talking to her sister about the awesome book I had that had got her out of The Talk. I think there was a scramble to get my girl cousin a copy of the same book.

Pink is inevitable. :) But it's also easy enough to balance out with so many other colours. What's annoying in the Asian context is that older folks don't recognise the whole pink girl/blue boy code, so when our baby had less hair, we got questions like "boy or girl?" from so many old grannies even when she was decked out in PINK from top to toe. And then the disappointment when it was a girl was even more annoying--sexism runs deep in the older folk.

Researching names is so much fun! Again, yay girls!

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

I will have to look for that book - it sounds quite useful!

I like pink with- combinations. (Green, brown, it goes with quite a lot, actually!)

I'm having fun researching names!

[jenny heidewald (from livejournal.com)]

*conspires to turn Guppy into a Little Princess* (violet, not pink...okay, maybe hints of pink.)

When I was younger (6 or 7) My cousin Aneta built me a doll house and furniture to go with it. I was always amazed and astounded at the furniture and the teeny little things she'd made. Beads and things for lamps ( and the furniture made of of balsa wood!) ...it is amazing. I don't think I would have the patience to build a doll house! Though I did make a bunch of clay food for a doll wedding I staged. :)

Yeah, girl puberty does suck...with puberty starting earlier and earlier these days you'll probably have to have The Talks before you think you'd need to. Better earlier than after they get strange ideas/misinformation from their friends!

Only thing I sent you via e-mail was about a Sketchfest bug, so tell those squirrels to not attack me! :)

I adore my cousin, she taught me crocheting, and let me play with fabric paint.... She wouldn't let me read Pet Cemetery the one time she was visiting (and reading that book). Also without her as my maid of honor my wedding would have been a lot more stressful! :)

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Hee hee! Pink is great in small doses. I don't want a flower-princess room that feels like pepto-bismol.

I LOVE doll houses and miniature things. Better than the dolls, really.

I fixed the piece of art you linked me to, but I haven't quite figured out why it happened yet. Have you tried uploading another finished piece and seeing if it happens again??

I never had a cousin - I'm so jealous!

[jenny heidewald (from livejournal.com)]

Teensy things are so cute! :)


All the others that I loaded as finished are okay except for this one:
http://www.ellenmilliongraphics.com/sketchfest/sketchfestart.php?id=2868

For the two that had issues I had loaded a bigger/newer file over an older file, so that might have something to do with it.