I am so glad to report that the doc says she is doing "perfect"! Music to this mama's ears! The doctor also said (as sweetly as she could) that I'm still gaining some weight, but not as much as I had the last time I came in. Ha! So, that's an improvement, right?!
So now I think it's time to reveal our baby girl's name on the blog, don't you? Our families have already been calling her by name, and I may even have a few things ordered with her initials and name to be embroidered, so it's safe to say it's official!
Our baby girl's name will be:
Amelia Ryan
Story behind the name -- Chris and I have had this name picked out since before we were even engaged. When we were dating, it didn't take long for both of us to know that we were going to end up married one day, so we would occasionally talk about "future things" like baby names and wedding plans, even though at the time, it was all hypothetical. We came up with the idea at one point that it would be fun to get married on the beach somewhere. So, my overactive planning and imagination took over and I started researching beach wedding destinations. I discovered a great little place called Amelia Island in Florida and I told Chris about it. He immediately loved it too and even had someone at a bed and breakfast down there send him some informational brochures about their event/wedding services (I still have the brochure!). So now that we had our hypothetical beach wedding planned (all I needed was for someone to pop the question!), I was ready to move on to naming our hypothetical babies. So, of course, it was a no-brainer for a little girl to be named Amelia after the island we were going to be married on!
Fast forward a year or so and needless to say, we didn't get married on Amelia Island. When we actually did get engaged, I don't even think it was much of a discussion! We wanted all of our families and friends to be able to attend and we wanted it to be in our church - so the Amelia Island discussion was taken off the table. But the baby girl name stayed the same.
The middle name we came up with is from Chris's middle name. Whatever we picked for a middle name, I wanted it to be a family name in some way. I considered other options like Elizabeth (for my sister) and Grace, but somewhere along the way one of us suggested the name Ryan and we both loved it.
What I love about her name is that Amelia is a form of the name Emily and Ryan is Chris's middle name. So it is both of our names put together. A perfect combination of us both, just like she will be!
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