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Naming our children is something we take pretty seriously. We have a few "rules" we try to follow when naming all of our kids: 1. We don't name them after relatives, including ourselves. Our reasons for this is that we felt like once you start that, you have to keep it going. We talked about using our first names as middle names but then that didn't seem fair...so the first son would be named after Zach but not the second? 2. We like to all have different first letters by the name we go by. I remember babysitting for a family and the mom would write on the calendar and have to put "M1" "M2" etc because there were multiple people in the family with the same first initial. After that I just always liked the idea of all having different first initials! 3. We like all of our kids to go by a one syllable name. The girls both have two-syllable first names but go by a shortened, one syllable name (Britt and Tess) and Kye goes by his middle name whic...
Zach and I take the baby naming thing pretty seriously. It's something we talked about even before we were engaged! With our pregnancies we never found out the gender and we never shared any of our name plans either. Gender was a surprise at birth as was the name! I love that element of surprise. It's such a FUN a joyful time and each of those moments with our babies were so special. Our last baby has a different story. A different start. So we also have a different game plan. It's always been important to me to treat all my babies the same as much as possible, and we've done the same with Tab. I've done monthly summary posts , my friends recently hosted a sweet baby shower in his honor, and we were even able to have a 4D ultrasound to see him for the first time! Obviously with his story beginning with adoption, things are different than my previous pregnancies. No baby belly. No dr visits. While we already know his sex (boy, obviously ha!) we could hold off...
Prior to going into labor we had a pretty solid plan in place for lines of communication! I asked Mrs. Charlotte to handle contacting out of towners like my dad and Rachael and I asked Robyn to contact local friends. I had an open invite to anyone who wanted to be there for the big announcement once our baby was born. I LOVE that moment when we announce the sex and name and think it'd be so fun to be in the waiting room and part of that announcement experience. Maybe someday one of my friends will not find out the sex and not tell names so I can experience that excitement!!! I'm so glad there were pics taken in the waiting room! We are so blessed to have so many people who were truly excited to meet our new baby! I feel SUPER bad about two people. Poor Kori was up there waiting and had to leave right before everyone got to come in the room! I feel so bad she had to miss it and appreciate her being there so much. And I also feel MEGA bad about Rachael! She drove all th...
