So maybe I WILL make it 7 more weeks!

Hi girls,

Well, that lovely medicine and the resting apparently helped me out last week, because I am doing much better now. My contractions stopped, and now I just feel like I should feel 7 weeks out from my due date. (I'm having contractions every now and then, but normal BH ones--- not bothersome ones like before.)

Steve and I are both getting really excited to meet this new little person!!! I've never been much for really common names (although I did just read that Tyler has been on the list of top 10 names in the US the last 5 years!), but this time around, Steve suggested a common name and it hasn't left us yet. So-- his name may be...... oh just kidding! We've decided not to tell until he's born! Even though we've mentioned the name idea to the boys, they're not seeming to go for it! Tyler still calls the baby Shoompy McClain (he made up that name, obviously!), and Ian wants his name to be one of the following: Daniel Flores, Elias, Luis, Mario Alfredo, or Carlos (can you tell that Ian is now Mexican? :-) hehe). Well, for some reason none of those names are sitting well with us! So- we'll see what name wins.

I really can't wait to see the look on the doc's and nurses' faces when this baby is born, because I'm not guessing that he will weigh any less than Tyler, which was 9 lbs. 1 oz. The Mexicans consider a 7 lb. baby to be big! I guess we'll have the "toddler" in the nursery!

I feel a bit presumptuous even mentioning this, but a few of you have asked if there are things that we could use here. Avalon girlfriends--- boy do we wish we had our beautiful glider rocker that you all pitched in on to buy for us! (Maybe we'll get to rock another baby in it if we have a 4th....we'll see!) Too bad it's in storage in Atlanta! For that matter-- too bad everything for a baby is in storage in GA, but it's pretty difficult to get it here! So- we keep telling ourselves that many of those things- though really nice to have- are luxuries compared to what our friends in Nueva Almaguer have to work with when they have babies. :-) Having said that, we've put just a few things on baby registries at www.target.com and www.babiesrus.com. Obviously, none of it is critical, but would be nice/helpful. I take that back-- diapers are always critical! :-) If you want to send something, please send it to:

Steve & Heather Wilson

1209 San Dario Ave.

PMB 7-335

Laredo, TX 78040

Toodles for now, girls!

The very large....Heather :-)