Oh Baby!!!

"What's in a name, that which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet." ~William Shakespeare Picking a name for a beloved family pet is easy compared to picking a name for another human being. If you pick wrong for a dog chances are you can change it and the dog will turn out just fine. But picking for a human? If we pick wrong we can't just change it. You're stuck with it for life! That's why we took our time thinking of the perfect name for you Bean. We started with a long list of boys and girls names before we knew your gender. We would say the names back and forth to each other. Try them with middle names, try them with our last name, test run nick names. I promise you, we put a lot of thought in the name you'd be saddled with for the rest of your life. We wanted you to have a name that was all your own. A name just as special and unique as you are. But then your sweetheart of a father told me in front of friends one night that ...

Ok, you little stinker. Time for a heart to heart. I am sure that as we go through the years together you'll do your share of scaring the bujeezes out of me. It's part of parenting and part of life. You'll grow and learn and want to take risks on new things. I'll freak out and be the worry wart that I am and we'll love each other even more for it. But I don't know if my heart can handle all the panic attacks I'm sure you'll unknowingly inflict upon me! Point in case little Bean ~ Yesterday we had our second Doctor's appointment. Dr. Woods wanted to use a fetal heartbeat monitor to listen to your heart. He squirted jelly on my tummy and started rolling the wand over me. From hip bone to hip bone, back and forth, over and over. Calmly telling me that he'll find you. Where did you go? Where could you have gone? You're 2 inches tall child, and you don't have a tiny car in there! After about 5 minutes Dr. Woods announced he was going for the...