Baby Stuff

This past Tuesday Mikal and I dropped Carter off with Neenie so we could go do our baby registry at Babies R Us. On the way to BRU I think we finally decided on a name for our baby girl....Madelyn Reece. A little background behind the name...A couple days before my aunt was incoherent from the cancer, she showed me a page in her journal. On the page was the title, "Baby Names", and below the title there was a list with only three names on it, all of which were girl names (note we had no clue at this point in my pregnancy what gender the baby was) Anyways, Madelyn was one of the names on that list. As for the middle name, Reece, it's my grandfather's middle name; he passed away in 2003. Even though she won't ever be able to meet these wonderful people here on earth, we know they'll be looking down from heaven watching over her.


I'm officially in the home stretch! Today, I'm 26 weeks along and have now started my 3rd trimester. Oh, we have a set date (unless she decides to surprise us) for my repeat c-section....looks like Madelyn's birthday will be April 24th! (sorry Nana T she won't have your birthday but it's pretty close :) ) I think that's all for now! Blessings until next time.

Our visit to the Lone Star State

About two weeks ago we packed our bags to head down to Texas. Once Mikal got off work we left for the Richmond Airport. We grabbed a bite to eat at the airport since we were traveling right around dinnertime. Carter was a wonderful little traveler. He did much better than I expected. He LOVED being on the airplane and wasn't scared at all. He said,"we fly to the moon Mommy!" During the flight mommy and Carter fell asleep while Daddy read a book. Our family (Mikal's mom, sister and our nieces and nephew) greeted us at baggage claim and it didn't take long for Carter to start enjoying the company of the other little people. We made it to the house and crashed after an eventful evening of travel. The next day, we hung around the house while the kids played, Joanna took us by her work and we took Mikal's mom to our FAVORITE Mexican restaurant for dinner. We had a great day. I was in for a surprise on our third day. I thought we were meeting up with extended family in the afternoon for a cookout, but was shocked to find out when we arrived that not only was it a "get together" it was also a surprise baby shower. I was so surprised I actually asked who are the gifts for and thought why didn't anyone tell me to bring a gift. Needless to say, I thought it was a very nice gesture and enjoyed getting some girly stuff for the baby :) We all enjoyed seeing family members that we hadn't seen in quite some time. We had our "Texas Christmas" the following day, it was so much fun watching the kids open thier gifts. On our final day, we made a stop by the Arlington National Cemetery; it was our first time there since the funeral, we then headed back to the airport for our trip back to Virginia. Carter was a bit more energetic on the trip back but was still a good little boy. It was a whirlwind of a trip but we had a blast and enjoyed visiting our family. We can't wait for our next trip to the lone star state!