NYE Western Cruise 2008 - New Thread

[disneykelly73]

Lets see.. have had lots of ALL day sickness (nothing morning about it.. lol) and am exhausted like ALL the time. (no artie, not because I am too excited to sleep!!)

That is why we cancelled the REAS package.. because I wont be able to drink, and over $100 of the price is on booze!!!

We are very excited. I am loving that my maternity leave will take me to Sept!!! A WHOLE summer off from work, I can not wait!

 

[CADZNYCHC]

OMG Kelly - that IS SOOOOOO Awesome - Congrats Congrats Congrats!!!! YES - take good care of yourself!!!! SO glad you're still getting to cruise with us!!! and at that time you should be feeling the BEST of the whole pregnancy!

 

[nskjerven]

Lets see.. have had lots of ALL day sickness (nothing morning about it.. lol) and am exhausted like ALL the time. (no artie, not because I am too excited to sleep!!)

That is why we cancelled the REAS package.. because I wont be able to drink, and over $100 of the price is on booze!!!

We are very excited. I am loving that my maternity leave will take me to Sept!!! A WHOLE summer off from work, I can not wait!

Yahoo!!!! Kelly good news. I've been told morning sickness is a sign of a healthy baby. I was sick all 9 months with both of mine, and they turned out great.

I think we have the baby luck in our group Xmas 2005, ya think???

 

[CADZNYCHC]

Yahoo!!!! Kelly good news. I've been told morning sickness is a sign of a healthy baby. I was sick all 9 months with both of mine, and they turned out great.

I think we have the baby luck in our group Xmas 2005, ya think???

As long as that "baby" luck only holds for those WANTING a baby!!! i remember being at the Oahu airport & had a photo taken with a statue of the Hawaiian "Fertility" god...omg - sure enough i was pregnant the next month

 

[disneykelly73]

OMG too funny!! So Brenda, do you now avoid fertility gods??? lol

Nan, I had heard that is the sign of a healthy baby. I have been sick as a dog for over 6 weeks now. Its starting to get better, but still am having at least 1 bout a day w/smells that set me into a gagging dryheaving spasm.

I am sooo excited.. and can not wait. I have already bought the baby furniture for the nursery.. and we have the names picked out already.

if its a girl:

Katherine Ava (katie for short)

if its a boy:

Jonathan William (no nickname.. I like Jonathan)

 

[CADZNYCHC]

OMG too funny!! So Brenda, do you now avoid fertility gods??? lol
like the plague!!!!!
if its a girl:

Katherine Ava (katie for short)

if its a boy:

Jonathan William (no nickname.. I like Jonathan)

those are beautiful names...i had Jennifer picked out for my DD if she had dark hair & Katie if she had blonde hair...she was born with a full head of DARK hair...so was named Jen...she went completely blonde before she was 6 months old....

 

[artman]

if its a girl:

Katherine Ava (katie for short)

if its a boy:

Jonathan William (no nickname.. I like Jonathan)

Great names

William is my middle name as well, now if you could just change the first name to Arthur you will be sure to have a well rounded boy.

 

[disneykelly73]

I think that might be a hard sell even to my husband, artie!!! lol My dad's middle name is William, and Brian's dad's first name is William, although he only goes by Keith (which is his middle name)....

Brenda that is funny. She tricked you!!

 

[nskjerven]

I think that might be a hard sell even to my husband, artie!!! lol My dad's middle name is William, and Brian's dad's first name is William, although he only goes by Keith (which is his middle name)....

Brenda that is funny. She tricked you!!

Kelly love those names here too.

My Grandmother is Katherine, it was already used for a Grandchild for my kids generation or I would have used it too.

William is Paul's middle name so again, we like it

My kids were also pre-named.

Molly would have been Wilson and I called her that the whole pregnancy. Molly was the kickname of my first dog, Kowdog, we called her Molly Moo Kow, so Molly comes from a great line of border collies

Wilson is named after my father (his middle name) and Paul's great uncle Conrad (his middle name) ironically his uncles first name is...William....There are a good string of WC Skjerven's in Paul's family so we wanted to carry on that tradition with our son too.

Family names are nice

 

[CADZNYCHC]

that's some cute history Nan!!! With a last name like Tsuda (the best way to pronounce the "T" is to think Matsuda without saying the MA) anyway - hard to put a 1st name, so we 1st had Nick (Nick Tsuda - sounds so macho doesn't it???) but then Dale's secretary named her son Nick, so we ended up with Ryan...and his middle name is Benjamin - a combination of Dale's dad Ben & my dad James....Ryan is the ONLY male Tsuda in the entire family....everyone else with Tsuda name has girls...

 

[bellelinus]

OMG too funny!! So Brenda, do you now avoid fertility gods??? lol

Nan, I had heard that is the sign of a healthy baby. I have been sick as a dog for over 6 weeks now. Its starting to get better, but still am having at least 1 bout a day w/smells that set me into a gagging dryheaving spasm.

I am sooo excited.. and can not wait. I have already bought the baby furniture for the nursery.. and we have the names picked out already.

if its a girl:

Katherine Ava (katie for short)

if its a boy:

Jonathan William (no nickname.. I like Jonathan)

I was sick with all three of mine, and all turned out well . . . you should be getting better as you go into the second trimester. My middle girl is Katherine, but is called Kat. Lovely names either way!

 

[magicalfam5]

I am finally going to try to post pictures of us (and my dog). I hope this works. Sorry it took so long Aisling! This first one is Christmas cruise 07

Jimmy

Kelly senior pic and "updo" for homecoming

Brian school pic and doing solo at halftime

Sammie

My hair is shorter now than in the pictures.

I could keep going cuz this is fun, but I won't!

Judy

 

[magicalfam5]

oooh, I forgot one of Jim and I on the cruise in 07. Again, my hair is just up to my shoulders now.

 

[nskjerven]

Very cute Judy. I like to see everyone before the trip then it feels like we know who you are

 

[nskjerven]

Tigg:

Can you please post the MM art work for me???

Thanks

 

[Aisling]

Judy, thank you for posting the pictures. You have a beautiful family. Now I know who to look for, and I won't go hugging the wrong people at the terminal or on the ship!

Kelly, I love the name Katherine, ans Katherine Ava is so elegant. We have a tradition on both sides of the family (coincidentally) that the father names the children, and I went along with it. Mel didn't tell me the names of my boys until I had them...Chad Alexander and Jesse James! Mel said if we had a girl her name would have been Grace Maria. I know it sounds unfair, but if I didn't want to go along with it, Mel would have been ok with it.

My Brian puppy is doing SO well, except for sleeping through the night. It was easier with my sons, because I nursed them and they slept with us when they were infants, so when they woke during the night, I'd just let them latch on, and they went right back to sleep.

It was cold today, and that makes me realize we're almost on the brink of cruise time!!!!!!!!

 

[nskjerven]

Judy, thank you for posting the pictures. You have a beautiful family. Now I know who to look for, and I won't go hugging the wrong people at the terminal or on the ship!

Kelly, I love the name Katherine, ans Katherine Ava is so elegant. We have a tradition on both sides of the family (coincidentally) that the father names the children, and I went along with it. Mel didn't tell me the names of my boys until I had them...Chad Alexander and Jesse James! Mel said if we had a girl her name would have been Grace Maria. I know it sounds unfair, but if I didn't want to go along with it, Mel would have been ok with it.

My Brian puppy is doing SO well, except for sleeping through the night. It was easier with my sons, because I nursed them and they slept with us when they were infants, so when they woke during the night, I'd just let them latch on, and they went right back to sleep.

It was cold today, and that makes me realize we're almost on the brink of cruise time!!!!!!!!

PICTURES

 

[Aisling]

PICTURES

of my kids latching on?

 

[artman]

Great looking family Judy, nice to see the pics.

Aisling, I gonna pass on wanting to see the pictures Nan is looking for, seeing that may make the hugging at the terminal a bit ackward.

Kelly, I wasn't sick during our pregnancy, but I was a little queasy during the delivery.

Here's the deal on our names:

Arthur William, I am named after both of my grandfathers.

Owen Arthur, we just liked the name Owen, Arthur is obvious. My dad is one of 5 brothers, who collectively produced only 3 sons and so far Owen is the only Robar grandchild. Hey, I got my Y chromosome thing together anyway.

And then there's Maude (I may be dating myself with that)
Claudia Maude, her dad's name is Claude (I think she was supposed to be a boy, glad she's not) Maude is after a grandmother.

 

[Aisling]

Aisling, I gonna pass on wanting to see the pictures Nan is looking for, seeing that may make the hugging at the terminal a bit ackward.



And then there's Maude (I may be dating myself with that)

Ok Artie, I'll spare you the latching on pics!

And yes indeed you're dating youself, and I'm in that club! I remember that show. I never really watched it, but I thoroughly remember that song!

If anyone has any tips on teaching my puppy to sleep in his crate, I'll be grateful. He wants to sleep on the couch, but I'm afraid he'll fall off during the night. He also likes to sleep with any of us, but I want him to learn that his crate is his own special cozy place. Someone told me to put him in while he's asleep, keeping the door open, so he won't feel like he's being isolated and then resent the crate. We keep the crate in Chad's bedroom because he has a big room. Any advice? He whimpers until we pick him up to put him in bed with us.

Kelly, thinking of you today, mama!