What will the baby be?

So today my sister called me to let me know that she and her boyfriend Rey are having a baby BOY. Which of course made me start wondering and anxious to know what Chad's and my baby will be. I was talking with my friend Megan the other day who is also due in July and she was lamenting about how July seems like forever away. At the time it didn't seem that far to me. Mostly because I was thinking about how we'll find out the sex in February and that didn't seem too far away, in fact it seemed very close. haha But now it feels like forever. I don't have any preference over what sex the baby is, but Chad is hoping for a little GIRL. We already have names picked out for a BOY or GIRL and I would love to be able to talk to the little baby growing in my belly and call it by name.

If it's a little GIRL her name will be Madeline Teresa. Teresa is Chad's Mom's name and she unfortunately is no longer with us. It's important to both of us for our child to carry something of her grandmother with her. I never got the chance to meet Teresa but everything I've heard is that she was an incredible woman who I would have been proud to call my mother-in-law. She was strong, loyal, beautiful and loved her children fiercely (just like my own Mom). All traits that I would love to have associated with me and my children.

If the little baby in my belly is a BOY, his name will be Tristan Nelson. Nelson is Chad's middle name (don't worry, the names we have for any other children will have my family names in them). The name Tristan also means strength according to some baby books... others say it means noisy. Uh-oh!

We decided it was fate that our children have those two names... if we have a boy and a girl.... because we both loved those names long before we ever knew each other. So now it's on to the waiting game, I just have to keep reminding myself that February is just around the corner and will probably be here before I know it.