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…And the name is…


We don’t know! You may all be very surprised to hear this, especially since we’ve practically told everybody it would be Mason, but Mason is no longer in the running. Sorry everybody! We just decided it’s a little too popular right now and we don’t want him to be one of 3-4 other children with the same name in his class. Not to mention the Kardashian baby is Mason, and we just don’t like that connection! So hopefully no one has bought or made anything with the name Mason or the MTG initials yet.

Even though a few months ago I said it wouldn’t happen, we’re leaning heavily towards Collin for the first name. Middle name is still being decided. We hope to have a firm name for you soon. Fingers crossed!

Lots of changes in the Greer household the past few weeks, trying to make room for Baby. Jiggs made Max a new platform bed (will post pictures as soon as I get the bedding for it!). Max’s bedroom will remain a nursery, and Max has moved into the space formerly known as the guest bedroom on the queen sized bed. Last weekend we let Max sleep in his “big boy bed” for the first time. We were terrified that he would be upset about it, or love it so much that he stayed up and played all night. And I’m not sure why we even worried! Our robot baby had no problems at all getting used to the bigger space. In fact, we think he’s been going to sleep faster – either because he has more room to spread out, or he doesn’t have the animals on his bumper pads to talk to! Either way, we’ll take it! Even with a fairly bad cold the last week or so he’s been sleeping like a champ. This morning I came in to find him laying under the 2 pillows at the top of the bed…not sure how that happened. And I am convinced that one day we’ll walk in there in the morning to find him curled up in a corner of the bedroom in the floor…once he figures out how to climb out of the bed anyway.

We still have a lot to do to get ready for #2, but at least that big hurdle is out of the way. We’ve done some rearranging with the bonus room furniture and downstairs living room to make extra room for double the amount of toys/clothes/books, etc that we know will soon take over. We still have to move all of Max’s clothes over to his new bedroom (as soon as we figure out where we’re going to put it!) and bring down all the little baby clothes, but at least we have a few months for that still!

I’m posting this from a computer other than my laptop, so I don’t have many pictures to share this time – except this one. Max got a surprise Christmas present all the way from Germany yesterday and here is the picture of him opening it! He was so excited to unwrap another present…I think he went into withdrawal after having so much fun with it at Christmas. Thank you so much Nicola and Thomas for sending the gift (and the chocolate, especially) all the way to Nashville! Max loves his toy motorcycle – and baby #2 loves the chocolate! :)