houston, we have a name...

thank goodness. kevin and i have finally agreed on a name. a beautiful name. we will name lulabelle (drumroll please) nora danielle sacry. isn't that the cutest?

nora is a combination of two of kev's awesome (late) grammys nonie and cora. it also means sunshine; light. and trust me friends, nora is our sunshine. :)

danielle is after my dad, daniel, who sadly passed away in october 2008... just 13 short days after we found out we were pregnant with nora.

also, kevin and i's very first "song" was "what am i to you" by norah jones (who i still love and adore).

a strong name with strong family history and a great meaning. :) we're feeling oh so proud of ourselves. :)

me lovey my mamacita!

well friends, my mamacita came to the rescue and pulled me out of my glider blues. she saved the day! :)

above you will see a picture of my mommy rocker in my baby's room. that's right!that wonderful, beautiful, super comfy glider/ottoman combo is in my house right this second. all because my mommy loves me. :) oh how i do love being an only child providing mamacita with her very first granbaby. i couldn't have picked a better one myself. i'm so grateful to have such an awesome mama.

also - this weekend the eagles picked up a great big ole' win against the big dumb giants! woot woot! which means - they are headed to the NFC championship game against arizona (a team which i whole-heartedly believe they can beat) and then to the 'ship! kevin agreed that IF we are having a boy and the eagles win the superbowl we will name him talon and decorate his nursery with the eagles theme. cawwww cawwwwwwwwww! gooooooo eagles! ohhh yes, life is oh so good. :)

oh what's in a name?

well, we're stuck. we cannot agree on anything. let me just say that naming a baby is tough work. seriously.

we will find out if our little baby bean is a boy or a girl soon. my productivity at work has pretty much came to a stand still since i got my big fat positive pregnancy test as i spend much of my day looking at baby bedding, strollers and onesies. i'm obsessed. and since my world-o-baby has been wide open for the last 18 weeks i have to look at everything and have a game plan for both boy and girl themed nurseries, strollers, onesies. :) sooo, basically... what i'm saying is... this new exciting world is about to change. once i can focus in on one sex - my productivity will pick up and more importantly kevin and i can focus in on becoming serious about this naming business.

more about that: kevin and i have been racking our brains to come up with a cute nickname for this little baby in my belly. no such luck. we are so uncreative we've been calling the baby, well, "baby." great - i know. well, i take that back. we've come up with some doosies - including yivo (for reasons i cannot explain in public...), birdie, and we even switched the nickname on a weekly basis based on the baby's size (we started in week 9 - olive... and honestly it kind of stuck). so here we are, still calling our sweet potato sized baby olive. and that's nothing - that's just the nickname for our unborn gender not known baby... so you can see where this is leading for the real name.

so i've pretty much determined my dear sweet husband is unfit for naming our baby. the new nickname (to which he seriously calls our baby outloud and one time in public) is: (drumroll please)

peyote moose

great. you've got to be kidding me. peyote moose. super. LOLOL. holy hell. so - it is what it is. me and peyote moose hang out together all day - we're never alone, peyote moose and i. does it bring a visual image? how's this:

so - peyote is this psychoactive alkaloid used world wide as a recreational drug.

just one more reason i'm so lucky to have kevin. i bet you wish you had someone as colorful as him to name your baby. oh how i do love me some kevin.

well - i suppose that's all for now. that and just so you know - we don't have any "real" names. back to the drawing board as the "x" in jaxon makes it "too kung-foo-ish" for kevin and in the last three months FOUR sophia's have been born in my town, population 30,000.

so - we'll keep at it. because lord knows we aren't really going to stick with peyote moose.