A name ...

We have a couple of baby girl names that we have loved for a long time. It seems lately we haven't had much time to discuss the baby name. Our conversations have been more geared towards raising a little girl and what this will require from each of us spiritually, emotionally, etc. Although both of our roles will be extremely important and influential, as a daughter I feel that she will be looking to her Daddy as she makes some of the most important decisions in her life. Thus, Ethan's rolls in her life is huge and so incredibly important.

I decided today that I'd like him to be the decision maker in naming her. I guess symbolically I'm trusting him to be the Godly man she needs to help steer her in the right direction through life ... so why not trust him up front to choose her name? In telling him this, he did express a strong desire to hear what I thought about names, but I'm still going to ask him to make the final call. In return  I've asked him to every day work towards being the man God wants him to be and through that he'll be exactly the Daddy she'll need him to be.

Awhile back I also decided I wanted Ethan to be the first person to hold the babies after they are born. As the spiritual head of our lives, I'd like him to be the first person they meet when they enter the world ...

It's so amazing to see the love and excitement on his face.  Hopefully ... we'll have a name to announce soon!