The One Where We Find Out

Well......after polling many friends and family members on what they thought the gender would be, most were correct, except for a certain husband and sister of mine who guessed wrong. We are having a BOYYYYYY! We are both super excited, and now that we know it feels more real! I always knew I was pregnant, believe me the reoccurring morning sickness reminds me, but now baby gator has a gender and soon will have a name. Baby gator is growing in size and reminding me he's there by little and frequent nudges inside. Mr. Gator loves listening to his movements, and we've noticed baby gator responds to his voice. An amazing blessing he is. Another blessing was when we found out that baby gator is growing at a healthy rate and everything looks good, prayers answered!

Mr. Gator and I from the beginning thought it was a girl, had a name picked out and everything. It was a pretty name too, a name I wanted for many, many years, so we will just have to save the name for the next gator.

We haven't fully decided on baby gator's name, we do know that the initials will be JMC. Mr. Gator has a really cool tradition to name the firstborn with the initials JMC. Now as a little girl, as most little girls do, I had a list of boy names already picked out. Now these boy names have varied over the years and have not all stuck like the girl name. But of the ones that did stick, of course none of them have the initials JM or even J or M.  Mr. Gator and I have gone back and forth on boy names ever since we have been dating (I think once we decided we were going to get married, we planned the rest of our life out including baby names), but we have never come up with a JMC name.

We are currently deciding between naming it after our fathers, conveniently they each have one of the initials, and are biblical, or another name that has an awesome meaning, however, neither is biblical or any family name. We love both names, but we also know that a person's name is the most important thing to that person, so we want to make sure we pick the right one. We know that God has a different name for us in the end, but I still would kinda like baby gator to like his name while on Earth.

For now and as always we will call him baby gator because after all that was his real first name.