I don't have suggestions for your babies, but I do have one for the low area. Consider a Rain Garden. They are environmentally friendly planting areas designed to use flood and roof waters. Native plants used to flood drought cycles are used in low places or in low areas created to contain roof runoff. I have not created my rain garden yet, but it sounds like a great plan for the areas of my yard that flood in the spring. Stage rat is right about checking where the water will go if you fill the area. A house I drive past filled a HUGE flooded depression in their front yard this fall. This winter, it looked like a skating rink across their yard and right into the doorwall of their neighbor's basement. Ouch! Here is a link that might be useful: Rain Gardens for homeowners

It will be exhausting. What is sleep anyway? LOL! I've never been so tired after our little Katie came along. But it does get better. Hopefully you have some family nearby to help once in a while? We didn't! Now I have a little potting buddy who loves to plant seeds and help me pot up plants!

Thank you all for the kind thoughts and prayers. Geri, I hope you have a wonderful wedding and you feel better. Let us know how it goes. You know we love to hear good things happen to wonderful people. Blessing to you and your husband. Well, thing's did not go good the first day at the rehab my dad was fit to be tied. Mad as all get out wanting to go home. It is really bothering him seeing people in the rehab that can't do anything for themselves, Stroke victims. The doctor at the rehab said dad is in the early stage of dementia and I have noticed his thinking wasn't right but could not get anyone to listen to me. If it wasn't for dad having the congestive heart failure and having to have the pacemaker he's still be at home. One of the biggest problems with my dad is over medicating himself. He has prostate problems that made it where he could not urinate, his bladder closed up at one time so if he does not urinate he thinks taking an extra flowmax will make him go and no matter how many times I or the doctor has told him he's only to take one. Then he's also taken two high blood pressure medicine if he couldn't go. His primary doctor is a quack, he does not help dad at all, he's given my dad whatever medicine my dad ask for and my dad told me once that he had been told that this doctor will kill you meaning that he doesn't take care of you right but dad would not change doctors. Now that may get him away from this quack of a doctor dad may have a chance to get the help he really needs. I went to tour and interview a dementia center today. I liked the place the people living there are very happy. The ladies there cracked me up one say's she was a dancer and singer so she sung a little for me and she was really good. Another loves people she hugs and kisses everyone. They are pretty much on the same level of dementia. I don't know how it will go moving dad into another center but I'm hoping I'm able to tell him in away that he'll feel better making the move. I went by to see dad after I got done with the tour and his legs were swelling up, I told the nurse and I hope they are watching him close. If I knew how to care for him I'd bring him home with me but he's at a point where he needs nurses and doctors watching over him. I am very tired I hope I didn't mess this up LOL. I tend to leave things out, sikp or get ahead of myself when writting. Thanks for listening to me ramble on, Barb

Before I read down as to what your girl's name suggestion could be, I thought like the others, and said Alana. Then I was blown away when you said Alana! What is your husband's first name? When I was still carrying my son that was stillborn, I was going to name him Justin, then when I learned he had died in utero, I just couldn't name him that, and so we named him after his father. But when I had my daughter the following year, I named her Erica Justine. I never gave it a thought, but months later it occured to me that Justine was the femine "version" I guess you'd say, of Justin. I have no other children, but I feel a part of Erica's brother lives on with her. Good luck with your pregnancy, and let us know what you decide. Carrying on a name in some form is a living memorial to those no longer with us. Emma