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So excited to be starting these weekly posts! My due date is August 1st, which is a Friday. I LOVED having a Friday due date with Britt and am glad this one is a Friday too...makes the weekly posts more fun to write when they are on a Friday for some reason ;) Nickname: Each baby we use a nickname to refer to them throughout the pregnancy. Mostly, I just have the nickname for blogging reasons. It's annoying to write he or she, him or her, etc over and over and I don't like to refer to the baby as "it" all the time either. We called Kye "Clover" because my due date (March 12th) was near St Patrick's Day. We called Britt "Blitzen" because my due date (Dec 9th) was kinda close to Christmas. Um. This baby isn't due near any major holiday!!! At first we thought it'd be fun to let the kids (meaning Kye) come up with a nickname. So we asked them in the car the other day and Kye said "Kayter." Like Gator but with a "K....
Thanks for all the fun name suggestions ! I think MANY were a joke right? They were good for a laugh and Zach especially enjoyed that so many of you took his opinion into consideration. He hated the nickname "Clover" the first time around so his opinion weighed heavily in this decision! Here were our top favorites and why: 1. Jingle : My personal overall favorite! Very holiday, very short, and an obvious nickname. Sadly Zach didn't like it. (Sorry Rach!) 2. Ice : Zach's personal favorite. I vetoed it though as it's not holiday-ish and I just can't picture calling my sweet, cuddly baby ICE?!?! 3. Little Elf: We both liked this one, but would simply call it "Elf." It actually ended up being the runner up for the nickname. Zach narrowed down to his final two and I picked the final one, and I just didn't like this as much as the other choice :) 4. Tinsel : My personal second favorite to Jingle. But Zach said it reminded him too much of Ten...
Majority of you were not around for my pregnancy with Kye so I'll fill you in. We do NOT find out about the sex :) We didn't know what Kye would be until he was born and we didn't share our name choices either (In fact, if #2 is a girl we are using the same girl name we had picked for Kye...and no one knows it!). Keeping the sex a surprise is SO fun. There are downsides (no clothes shopping be the biggest one) but overall I think there are more pros than cons. Pros of Keeping the Sex a Surprise: People can't buy you clothes so they get you stuff you ACTUALLY need!!! (and you're not stuck with a bunch of ugly clothes you don't really like haha) There are SO few surprises left in this world, why not enjoy a little surprise when you can? People get SO much more excited when the baby is here b/c they are DYING to know what you're having It makes the moment the baby comes out so special b/c you get to hear the dr say "It's a.....!" By keepin...
