A Christmas Treat

Merry Christmas! We hope your home is filled with many blessings today and as we move into the new year. May you be filled with joy at the coming of Christ.

We have a little Christmas treat for you. We've decided on a name for our very expected one, and we wanted to share it with you. His name will be Tobin. It is of Hebrew origin and means "God is good." His nickname will be Toby. We love it. Everytime we say it Elinore giggles.

No middle name yet, but we'll get there eventually.

Christmas in Chicago

This past weekend was spent in Chicago with my family celebrating Christmas together. We had so much fun eating amazing steaks, playing new games, laughing, sledding, enjoying the choirs at church, Elinore taking a little spanish class where my sister works, and much more. One of Elinore's gifts was a little princess costume that my mom bought on Halloween clearance. Elinore loved it and twirled around in it for us. Poor Kevin. I don't think he ever imagined having so much pink in his life. But, when you're a daddy for a little girl, I think it changes you. At least we have a boy on the way to satisfy his "un-pink" ways!
The last few times we've visited my family Elinore has favored my sister Laura, and sort of given Caity the slip (to great offense). Caitlyn has claimed rights to baby #2 instead. She wants to be the favorite aunt to at least one child!! This time I don't know what was different, but it was "Caity, this..." and "Caity, that..." She seems to have moved up in the ranks which made us all laugh quite a bit. Here is Elinore getting a kiss from Aunt Caity.
This is the latest project I am able to post. The Koolhaas Hat I knitted for my mom. It is a beautiful pattern that I found in the Interweave Knits Holiday Gifts magazine. The pattern was challenging at first, but not too bad once I got into the groove. This one may make more appearances in the future.

The final week of Christmas poses to be a little bit crazy for us, but enjoyable none the less. I only have a couple projects to get finished up, so there will be more posting to come.

Well our exciting news of the day is that we had our ultrasound today. It is always such an amazing time. I am awed that we have machines that can see an unborn baby in such detail. We could see the heart beating, the sections of the brain, the little kidneys, arms, legs,... Wow. The big news is that we are having a BOY!! We were pretty sure that it would be a girl, so we were surprised! Elinore, however, knew all along. We should have listened to her. The technician gave us some photos and she put some video clips on a disc for us. I thought this video was so cool, so I wanted to share it with you. It is only 2 seconds long, but you can see the baby's little leg kicking, and I could feel him kicking as I watched it on the screen. It was cool. Enjoy.

On another note, we are potty-training this week. I'll spare you the details, but Elinore is doing AWESOME! She is having a great attitude, and we have hardly had any accidents at all. What a little trooper.