wow - a month since the last post --- haven't been doing it much since being in Texas, but that's about to change! Counting down for heading back East!!! Jon and Jason fly in next Wednesday and then we load the big moving truck with all of our stuff and officially move to the DC metro!!! Crazy! It is with mixed emotions to head out!
My belly popped! I finally put away my favorite jeans and started wearing my favorite maternity ones - so nice when you actually like your maternity clothes.
Here's the break down on names:
So Shortie's real name is Andru Victoria. The nickname Shortie started when we first told my family we were expecting (gave them a card that said congrats, and then inside had the ultrasound with "You're going to be a Grandparent around....") So my Dad said something to the point of "thats just a short little thing" and the name Shortie came about. After she was born it was very hard to start calling her Andru or Andie, so Shortie stuck. (if she was a boy he would have been Ezekiel Timothy, or Ezekiel Dean)
Bubba's name is Elijah Timothy. We hadn't really narrowed it down to one boys name by the time Bubs arrived (we didn't know for any of them what the sex was). When he was just minutes old my Dad went to Shortie (she was only 18 months and just barely talking) and said "Can you say Bubba?" well to our surprise she said it perfectly - so once again my Dad is credited with a nickname (Bubba is my dads nickname on his side of the family). Oh and he would have been Addisen Kate if a girl
Little Zek - well, I've always loved the name Ezekiel. We had decided to use my maiden name of Kelley for the babies middle name regardless if we had a boy or girl. So he became Ezekiel Kelley. We hadn't come up with a nickname but I've always loved Zeke, however I'm not a fan of the spelling. Its a nickname and it comes from E-zek-iel so why not make it a little different and do Zek. (If he had been a girl she would have been Ireland Kelley)
Now this baby. aka Next Baby. We have two first names picked out for a girl, and a definite middle name. As far as the boys name goes - haven't narrowed it down yet, except the middle name. But I can say one of the girls names is a boys name - following the same suit as Andru :o) However I have made it a little tricky with a numbers game - here it is:
Andru = 5 + Victoria = 8 --- total being 13
Elijah = 6 + Timothy = 7 --- total being 13
Ezekiel = 7 + Kelley = 6 --- total being 13
So the new baby is going to be 8 + 5 = 13
this wasn't planned just happened, and now with the middle names we've picked for a boy or a girl are already 5 so why not continue it and make the first names 8 - which the two girl names we like already were - so it fits :o)
the numbers also work for Jons name equally 13, however I dont fit in :o( my extra "n" in Kathrynn makes me at 14 :o)
Friday I am hoping to upload some pictures - so stay tuned!
Wanted to post some pictures of Cali but I'll have to wait until I'm in VA with my computer - here is one of the ones I already put on my parents computer- Baby Brooke with the Schroeders kids. Not sure why all the arms are up - but it was fun :o)
