Baby Name Elimination

Now that we know we are having a girl, it is time to start picking names. Forest affectionately refers to her as "Sproutessa" for the time being, but that may not be appropriate for her birth certificate. We only have about 5 months, so hopefully we can make a decision by then.

To start out, we have managed to eliminate three names for sure:

#1: Astrid--because of a particular episode of The Office.

#2: Roxanne--is having an "x" sound in her first and last name too much?

#3: Aubrey--it's the name of our darling 2-year old niece, and having two in the family might be confusing.

As you can see, the process of elimination alone is not going to make us much progress.

I think people almost expect us to name our kids after some type of flora or fauna, because it seems only fitting coming from parents named Forest and Ivy. As though we were growing a little garden of children...except it probably takes a lot more than a green thumb to raise babies.

It's a Girl

We had our sonogram today and got to see our sprout for the first time. She is an active one--the technician had a hard time getting her to pose for a shot and a lot of the pictures were blurry. But there she was! I was thrilled to see that even such a tiny person can have her own stomach, gall bladder, kidneys...and five little fingers on each hand.

Sprout

Forest and I are expecting a baby in April. We don't know yet if it is boy or a girl, but we have just been calling it our little sprout.