Baby Update - Week 33

Well, we are officially in the homestretch so it is time we announce our little ones's name...

Matthew Charles Cox

We actually decided on it weeks ago but for some reason I needed to keep thinking on it and saying it out loud before it felt final. But here we are with just weeks left so I am now confident in announcing it! We want to keep it "Matthew" and not call him "Matt" so hopefully that will stick. I have to admit it was really tough coming up with another name for our 3rd boy but Matthew has always been on our list so we went with it.

Baby Matthew is our mystery baby...he has yet to give us a great shot of his face during all of our ultrasounds. All we know is that he is healthy and growing well - he is just over 4lbs as of our u/s this week - but that is all we need to know for now! I start my weekly visits and non-stress tests as of this week so it really feels like he will be here before we know it - just 5 or 6 weeks and the mystery will be over!

As for the rest of us...I am feeling well, just the normal achy uncomfortableness of the 3rd Trimester. I am definitely walking the fine line of being ready to not be pg any longer and knowing what is on the other side so I am trying to take it one day at a time! I don't think Nate understands what is going on...he is intrigued by mommy's belly and if he sees any baby stuff he will say "that's Baby Matthew's", but on a couple of occasions he has asked for a bottle (luckily a water bottle will appease him) and he sometimes randomly says "I'm a baby! Goo goo gaa gaa". So, it's tough to figure out how much to talk to him about Baby and what will prepare him versus stress him out. But I do think he will love his little brother when he gets here. And Michael, poor Michael...he is doing his best to deal with his moody, stressed-out pregnant wife. God bless him.

So, that's about it on the baby front. Making progress in the nursery and hope to have it finished up in the next week or two. Wish me luck!

Snowy Valentines

If you haven't heard...it snowed a lot (by GA standards) on Friday. Saturday was a gorgeous day to play out in the snow...Nate had a blast making and throwing snowballs. We had a hard time getting our little snowboy back indoors for lunch, he cried when we came in. He even put his coat and boots back on after lunch and stood by the door, just waiting to go back out....


Since the weather and roads put a damper on our plans with some old friends on Saturday night, we pulled together a last minute family fondue night. The interesting thing is that my little pseudo-vegetarian kid actually ate steak and chicken...I guess the fun of watching it cook made it more appetizing! This isn't a great picture, I realize, but you get the idea.

We spent today exchanging sweet cards and going to Daddy's tennis match. The snow has pretty much melted now so at the courts there were great mud puddles that Nate decided to play in...luckily he had decided to wear his rain boots again today so it was kind of fun watching him be a little boy splashing in puddles (and making a mess...I had to run up to the nearby Target to grab a new pair of pants)...if only I had the camera with me. :(

Valentines isn't really a holiday that we make a big deal out of...but it does remind me how fortunate I am to have my boys as my valentines!

Winter Fun

Guess I bragged a little too quickly in my last post...the last month has been really busy and I finally got a minute to upload 300+ pictures from the past month today. Between work travel and Nate's busy schedule and just plain old 3rd trimester exhaustion, blogging slipped on my priority list again. But here is a brief recap of the past month...

Nate's Saturdays were busy with birthday parties for his classmates. We have played at Monkey Joe's and Gymboree and eaten lots of pizza and cupcakes (we aren't complaining!).

We met CC and Papa Steve in Chattanooga one weekend for lunch. Nate got a special treat after lunch because he went straight to the bathroom and decided he needed to go all by himself (this was only our second public bathroom experience...oddly it is very exciting!). Then we played in the park by the river to burn off some of that sugar.

Nate started sleeping in his big boy bed a few weeks ago...I was very nervous about making that transition and him staying in a big bed, but he LOVES it. It is his own little space (even though he looks so tiny in a Full bed) and he snuggles in under the covers and doesn't even think about escaping. Both his room and the nursery are still in transition, so no good pictures to share yet, but he did get his new train sheets (that he helped pick out) and I am still working on pulling the rest of the room(s) together.

We celebrated my (Thirty-something) birthday weekend by spending a day at the Fernabank to see the dinosaurs (and then Mommy and Daddy got to have a dinner/movie date that evening - it was very nice, we don't get out by ourselves enough!). Then the Super Bowl was on my actual bday so we had some friends and family over to watch the game with us. It was a great way to spend my bday. Nate sang "Happy Birthday to Mommy" over and over again - except some times he would throw in "Happy Birthday dear piggy", which was kind of confusing...and my sensitive pg hormones made me a little paranoid. :) But I am just going to assume that addition was because he had been playing with his farm set earlier....


What I have learned from this post is that Nate has had more cake and ice cream in one month than I realized. Don't worry, we feed him vegetables as well (and he actually likes them).

More Winter fun to come...including more snow fun and Valentines day...and baby updates...stay tuned!