{party of five}

in case you didn't know, our little family of four is soon to be a party of five!!!

in january, we found out we were adding a little baby cakes to the harris party.  it was kind of a surprise, but after the shock of it all we were and are very excited :)

i'm kind of a weirdo and like to wait forever to tell people, including our families... it's just how i roll.  i get pretty sick during pregnancy and feel miserable a lot of the time, so i feel like it goes by faster when people don't know and aren't always asking about it.  (although, i do appreciate that people are concerned and that they care.)

i first went to the doctor when i was 11 weeks pregnant and the ultra sound tech asked if we wanted to know what we were having.  both matt and i can't handle not knowing, so we of course said yes!  she told us that she was 90% sure it was a boy even though it was SO early.  in fact, she asked if she could do a trans-vag ultra sound to investigate more and once again, it totally looked like it was a boy.  

right then and there in the ultra sound brooks decided that this baby boy would be named cosmo. (he has a little obsession with BYU and cosmo the cougar.)  the ultra sound tech told us not to announce it was a boy or go buy all the boy things just yet, but she was pretty dang sure it was a he.  from that day forth, we have been calling our little babe cosmo.

we went back in at 16 weeks for the official gender check and within 30 seconds she said, "yep, he is all boy!!" and we were stoked.

brooks asks about baby cosmo every day.  when he will come out, if he can talk yet, what he eats, can he say hi to him, etc.  it's pretty cute.  i think brooks is going to have a rude awakening when he finds out that we aren't actually going to be naming him cosmo. haha whenever we talk about any names (boy names are HARD... we've got nothing!)  brooks gets so mad and says, "no, it's cosmo!"

remi is still pretty clueless as to what's going on.

like i said, i've been pretty sick with this little one, especially the first trimester.  i wanted to say it was a boy from the beginning because my sickness was so comparable to when i was pregnant with brooks, but i know it really has no correspondence. luckily, it's been about two weeks since i've thrown up so i think it may be coming to an end.  i still feel sick throughout the day and have a hard time eating because everything sounds like death, but i'd rather feel like poo than throwing up all the time.

also, my fantastic sister in law, trina,  was kind enough to take some pictures of me to help announce the pregnancy.  could you die over this dress (similar here & here)?!  pink blush maternity has so many options and i pretty much want everything.  i LOVE that this dress can be worn pre-pregnancy, during pregnancy, and post pregnancy while nursing.  i am totally a dress girl, so any dress that works for nursing is a win in my book.

we are so excited to see our family grow and feel very blessed.  little cosmo is already so loved and we can't wait for his arrival.

almost half way done, woot woot!

throwback thursday: remi jayne-newborn shoot

in all the hustle and bustle of the holiday season and life in general, i never got around to posting remi's newborn pictures.  they are too good not to share.

remi was about 2 weeks old when these were taken.

photo credit: tregani haslam

it is pretty great having such talented friends :)

without further ado, one precious picture overload...

they grow much too fast.

how she got her name.

it's kind of a funny story on how we decided on the name remi.

we went to the hospital knowing that her middle name would be jayne, but undecided about her first name.  jayne has no significance to us and is not a family name, we just think it's cute.

when we got to the hospital i told matt to write our two options on the board. 

remi jayne

& 

harper jayne

we told our nurse how we were undecided and she brought in a huge book of names for us to look through juuuuust in case we wanted more options.

matt's choice was always remi.  when he was on his mission in tacoma, washington, there was a sister serving with him who had the first name remmy.  he suggested it long ago and i said it could be in the running but i would spell it "remi."  to say he was stoked that i would even consider it was an understatement :) haha

my first choice was harper but it is becoming quite popular and that was a turn off for me.  a week or two before giving birth, i was starting to get on the remi train but i couldn't admit it to matt because i didn't want him to win... hahaha for reals though.

anyway, we passed the time reading funny names in the name book, but not adding anything to the list.  we decided that once she was born, we would choose a name.

well she came and she didn't immediately strike us as one name or the other.  at one point matt said, "if you want to do harper, let's do harper." and i'm pretty sure i said the same thing to him about remi.  when all of the first visitors had left and we were alone, we were both leaning towards remi.

our nurse came in to check on us and asked if we had decided on a name.  we told her we were thinking remi, but not yet 100%.

as more people came to visit, matt asked me if we should announce that her name was remi and i said not yet, i still wasn't ready to commit.

a little while later, we took our baby girl into the nursery to get her first bath and as we walked in the nurse said, 

"is this baby remi?"

and she turns around holding a sign that she had made for her hospital bassinet.

matt and i looked at eachother and said, "sure! this is remi."

and that is how we decided.  the nursery nurse decided for us.

we told her we were undecided up until that point and she assured us that we could change the name and she could make a new sign, but we stuck with remi.

and i'm sure glad we did.  she is totally a remi.

also, we were so lucky to have our sister in law Trina come later in the afternoon and take some lifestyle photos after our little princess had her bath.  i'm so lucky to have so many photographers around me that take our pictures.

and you are all so lucky to see all 100940348 that i post all the time :)