Kate Has an Announcement...

In case you need a translator for Kate's video, she is trying to tell you that her baby sister's name is Emily! We have finally decided after changing our minds several times, debating over different names and living with Emily for a little while to make sure it feels right. As with Kate's names, we really wanted to try to use family names if we could agree on one. Emily is after Nonna, my Mom, who is actually Emma Lee. She was named Emma after her maternal grandmother and Lee was after her Dad, Leo, who was often called Lee.

Kate has been referring to her baby sister as Sissy for a while now but pretty recently has been able to tell us that her name is "Emma-me". The video clip at the end where she is banging the spoon she had spontaneously broken out in an "Emma-me" chant that night that was pretty funny.

Of course now that Kate is comfortably in her big girl bed, we have been able to get the nursery set up with her old furniture. Here are some pictures of the nursery in progress. It's in pretty good shape, just a couple more pictures on the wall are needed and it will be done. Next we'll need to start getting clothes, swings, bouncey seats, etc out of the attic. We're really getting ready for our newest little girl! I had an appointment with the doctor this week and there's not much to report which is a good thing. We should be a little over 5 weeks from a scheduled c-section date but we haven't scheduled anything definite yet. We'll have an ultrasound in about 3 weeks and then maybe we'll start to firm things up with the scheduled date. Of course Miss Emily could decide she needs to meet all of us on her own schedule too so we'll see!

The name just went up today