Christer & Cat

So I’m thinking the name Jack Mason Edwards will be the one- any comments?

I am 15 weeks and 2 days along today and went in for my check-up. My mom was able to come with me while Grandma Edwards played with the girls. I asked Dr. Farley if we could do a quick ultrasound. He of course humored my request but let me know that I am pretty early and I won’t be able to find out the gender of the baby unless it is in just the right position and even then- it would be pretty hard. Well he was wrong. The baby was in the perfect position and INSTANTLY both the doctor and I saw what we came to see- there was no doubt in either of our minds.

As the doctor put it, our little baby has a “ditsel.” (boy)

Tomorrow MAY be the day we find out what we are having! Christer is certain that we are having another girl- I’m thinking boy this time around. We’ve been tossing around name ideas and I’d like to see what you think-

#1 for a girl would be: Reese Anne (my suggestion)

#1 for a boy would be: Jackson Range (both came up with it- Range is my dad’s middle name)- We’d call him Jack.

What suggestions do you have? We don’t like “popular” names- but of course with both girls we ended up LOVING names that were climbing the charts that year! Just so you remember- if you want to compare sibling names- Addison Jane, Elizabeth Marie.

Last night our neighbors invited us and another family over for dinner. There were two 3 year old boys. Addison of course tried to play with them the most but “boys will be boys.” She kept up with them for the most part, but it was easy to tell that they didn’t want a girl to play with them. A couple hours into it I heard Addison crying and I looked over to find both boys next to her and one of them then said, “Take it from her!” All three of them were holding onto a car that Addison had been playing with. The boys obviously didn’t want it to play with- they just wanted to take it from her. Addison doesn’t cry easily so when I saw what was going on I realized they had been doing this for a while and Addison was still holding on to that car as hard as she could. I yelled something to the effect of “Boys! leave her alone!” Once Christer realized it was Addison crying he jumped up from the table and ran to her and actually YELLED- “HEY!” The boys were startled and let go and their parents disciplined them. Christer scooped Addison up in his arms and comforted her. Later on that night at home, we were talking about that incident  and Christer still got a little upset about it. He said that even though they were only 3 years old he want to smack them for making his little girl cry. He then said,” I don’t care who you are, if you look at my girls wrong, I’m going to take you out.” It was really cute to see the protective papa bear emerge.

Lizzie just adores her dad and is calling him “Da” now. This morning she was looking for him, walking around calling out, “Da, Da, Da?” It was pretty cute. When I told her that dad was already at work she stuck out her bottom lip and tried one more time, “Da?” I told her that he would be back soon and she was content with that answer.

I love my girls