We Are Having a Baby Boy!
Hello my dear friends! I have been wanting to tell you the good news about our baby - we will have a baby boy! We just found out last Wednesday and had promised to tell our family first before taking the news online so that we didn't hurt the feelings of our in-laws (as you can understand). But wow, how much I've wanted to tell you since last Wednesday! It's been hard to control myself.
My mother guessed it was a boy and so did my mother-in-law, in fact when I was 6 weeks pregnant my MIL gave me a pair of little baby boy shoes and I asked her, "Why!?" and she said she thinks it will be a boy! Yeah, it was a little interesting to say the least... Such an early prediction, but she meant no harm and was just having fun with us - BUT both mothers were right! And a little secret is that I also knew early on. I told my husband the second we found out that we were having a boy and I kept referring to our baby as he, our boy, son, etc. It is just a feeling I had, though really only a good guess. I wanted a boy OR a girl equally, I had NO preference whatsoever - just a healthy child. That's still all I think about - healthy and happy.
We also have a name but are waiting until the day he arrives so he is the one to hear it first from our mouths. We want to keep some things in our life secret, it feels nice to have your own couples secret, don't you think? Do you want to hear how we chose the name? It's fascinating! For a few weeks, I started to research names and so did my husband. I was on a bevy of websites and he was using websites and a baby names app. After much research from us both, and ZERO discussion about it, we both were sitting at the breakfast table recently and he said he thinks he has a nice name in mind if it really is a boy. I asked him what it was and when he said the very name I had chosen (without his knowledge), I nearly fell out of my chair. This is a name neither of us have ever heard of, or read or saw in a film or anything and absolutely nothing associated with our families. I ran to my bedroom to grab my iPhone to show him the name I had put in my Notes and he smiled. It was the same name.
How's that for a good story?
I have one final bit of news to share. I've started writing a journal to my baby boy. I'm telling him about how I feel now, my pregnancy, things his daddy and I talk about, what I'm doing, etc. I hope to share it with him someday when he is old enough to understand it and cherish my words. I'm writing in a beautiful journal that I was given by the shop owner of Astier de Villatte in Paris back in February 2012 when I was styling their shop for my book. I had been saving the journal ever since for a special moment, and you really cannot get more special than this!
As I've said all along, the baby's gender WAS NEVER IMPORTANT to me. I would have been thrilled to have a girl, too! Gender is a non-issue, good health is the most important. So I've been taking extra good care of myself and feeling stronger and healthier each day. But when the doctor asked me last week if we wanted to know, well... We said YES! Especially since we are having our baby in the dead of winter and need to make preparations in advance so we can really nest this winter and not have to run around after the baby arrives to shop for necessities, this takes an incredible lift off of us.
So that is my news. I'll be back tomorrow with a gorgeous home tour and some more goodies. And by the way, if you are looking for darling baby clothes, I just had a great time shopping the new MINI collection over at Zara. Super sweet stuff.
(photos: zara mini)