It's official! Her name is.....

Well...Eriik and I have been 99% sure of what we were going to name our baby girl for a few months now...and I have been telling anyone who asked what I thought we might name her. It feels so weird for me to tell people her name before she is born because with Alec and Ava we kept it a secret, but I don't like keeping exciting things like this a secret! Besides that, it's now "written" on her nursery wall, and it took quite some time to put up, so I would call that official! Here it is:

We just love the name Addison...our baby name book has the meaning listed as "Awesome". So her name means Awesome Faith! I love that! I am so excited to meet Addison...to see what she looks like, and see what her little personality is like. She is moving all the time, but they are mostly pretty calm "flowy" movements...nothing too crazy. I am praying for a peaceful, sweet natured little girl with a joyful spirit, who grows to love the Lord with all her heart, soul, and mind.

Alec and Ava are really getting excited too. I've noticed Ava playing with her baby's a lot lately and feeding them, and putting them in Addison's crib to take naps. She keeps telling me that she is going to take care of Addison (she always sounds like she's saying Allison) , that she wants to feed her, and hold her. She kisses my belly and hugs it...really sweet. Alec isn't quite as talkative about it, but when we ask he says that he is really excited and is even excited that her birthday will be so close to his (she will be born Jan 6th, just 3 days after his 6th birthday)! He said "Oh, cool that means we can have birthday party's together!" I won't do that do them!!! I don't think it would be too fun for a 7 year old boy to share his birthday with a 1 year old baby girl! Anyway...it was sweet that he offered!

Here is a picture of the crib and bedding with the name above it. I love how it turned out.

Punkin Pickin...

Well...we did our annual trip to the pumpkin patch last weekend. It was a really warm day (upper 80's), but that's just fall in Texas! We went to a different patch because Eriik had off on that Friday, and Moore Farm isn't open to the general public on Friday's. So, we went to Pappy's Pumpkin Patch which was a little closer, and I think we may have liked it better! It didn't have all the farm animals like Moore Farm, but it had plenty of things to do and the kids had a great time. There was a barrel train, fish feeding at the pond, a huge playground with playhouse, a hayride, and my favorite part...plenty of photo ops :) So, here are the pics:

Ava the ham..and Alec at the zoo!

Well...some of these pics were taken last month, so I wanted to post them before putting the pumpkin patch pics up. I went with Alec on his field trip to the zoo with his school. It was a fun and exhausting day! I also wanted to post a few pics with Ava...she really loves to pose for pictures, although she almost never does what you want her to do..oh well...shows her personality! When she got her school pics taken last week the photographer had trouble keeping her from holding out her tunic top like a princess. When she get's something in her head it's not easy to sway her.

I just thought this was a sweet pic of Alec and Ava together...it's very rare that both of them are cooperating on the first try! Normaly it takes about three pics to get them both looking and smiling. (You might notice that Ava has a spider man watch around her ankle...funny girl!)

Before school one day I decided to grab a picture of her and so here are a few of them...she couldn't hold still...just wanted to show me all her poses. This one is the mid jump pose.

The princess pose.


The "Ta Da" pose.
She also does the "muscle man pose" in alot of pics but didn't do it this morning.

Alec went to "Touch a Truck Feed a Family" with his daddy and came home a tiger! Scary!

Here's the group that I got to spend a day at the zoo with...they were a very lively group of boys!

We ran into Mrs. Ferrill and grabbed a quick pic!

Alec imitating the Cheetah!

Yes...that's a bird on my shoulder...

Got one!