We've got a mover!

Quite a bit has happened over the past week or so.  While I've been feeling baby swan move for a couple of weeks now, this week I've really been able to feel him moving around and can even see it from the outside sometimes.  Kevin has yet to really feel him move, I think mainly because baby swan likes to move a lot in the mornings and getting Kevin to wake up enough to really be alert in the morning is nearly impossible.  It also never fails that as soon as I put my hand on my stomach, he gets shy and stops.  Soon enough I'm sure Kevin will finally feel his little boy move, then maybe it'll really be more real for Kevin too.

Also in big news this week...we got his crib and dresser!  We've put both together and are now on the lookout for a rocking chair or glider of some sort.  After assembling the dresser and seeing just how little our nursery is, we are also thinking there might need to be some modifications to the room to really make it nice and comfortable for our baby swan.  It's fun to see the nursery start to come together and imagine what life will be like in a little more than 4 months when we have a baby to put in it!  It's a long ways from completion, but definitely fun to see what it will be in the future.  I think Kona enjoys all the new smells and things it in as well.

The most exciting news of the week is that I'm almost positive we've decided on a name.  I never thought we would have come to a consensus this quickly, maybe because I can't make a decision on anything to save my life.  However I'm not sure why I doubted that we'd be able to do this with having the worlds most logical focused husband.  How we came to this name still makes me laugh and in awe that I'm really okay with the process that came to be our first born child's name.  Typical of my anal retentive and slightly obsessive, perfectionistic tendencies; I went out and bought the baby name book with the most baby names I could possibly find.  I then proceeded to read through all the boys names from A-Z, not ONCE but TWICE!  I then compiled a list of roughly 35 names that really caught my attention and stuck out to me.  Knowing that 35 names would be way too many for Kevin I narrowed that list down to my favorite 10.  Kevin had told me that we would both come up with a list of 10 names and two weeks later come up with another list of 10 names, so I figured I was set for at least 3 weeks.  Come to the night we are really going to discuss names for the first time since we found out I was pregnant and we were expecting a little boy.  Kevin quickly leafs through the name book picking 10 names in about 10 minutes and says he's set.  I'm sitting in the couch in disbelief that something as significant as naming your child can be compiled in 10 short minutes.  I had already spent hours coming up with my list!  So we compare our top 10 and slowly whittle them down to a list of 4 or so (Kevin will have to give exact details as I can't remember anymore!).  We independently rank the list and both wind up with the same number one.  Kevin says that's it, that's a great name for our son.  I took more convincing but over the course of the week have grown pretty fond of the name.  We already had decided on a middle name, so as of now, we have a name for our son.  We both decided that nothing is set in stone and if something else we feel we like better comes up then we'll revisit the idea, but we have a name that we both really like.  Kevin's already calling him by his name in conversations between the two of us.  As for the rest of the world finding out his top secret name...you'll have to wait until he makes his appearance in October!  And for now we'll continue to refer to him as baby swan.

Since this blog is all about our experiences, thoughts and persepctives of both of us, I'm sure Kevin will have something entirely different to say about the nursery set up and the naming process.  I however cannot wait to tell our little boy all about how his name came to be, and just how Kevin like it really was--always pushing me to make a quick decision, not worry about it being perfect and not judging how it came to be.  And even though the process made me really uncomfortable and rushed feeling, I think we came up with a wonderful name for our son.  Let's just hope he agrees!