November 2011

I can't believe November is almost over and Christmas is right around the corner! I'm 19 weeks now and nearly half way through. I've got to get better about updating post and pictures so we can remember this time in our lives--and just maybe one day our little boy will have some interest in reading about our lives while we awaited his arrival.

This has been an eventful month, here are some of the highlights:

• I had a nice Thanksgiving surprise--I felt the first flutters and kicks over the thanksgiving break. It was very faint, but I knew immediately what it was. I was laying in bed catching up on episodes of Gossip Girl when I first felt a kick--so apparently our baby boy has the same feelings about my taste in TV shows as his dad : )
• Baby Alderman also completed his first half marathon this month--although I must say I did most of the work! Brandon and I started training in June for the first annual Savannah "Rock & Roll" Marathon--but I found out not long after that I was pregnant, so I decided to just run the half rather than taking on my first full. But, Brandon trained and ran the full 26.2 miles--I'm so proud of him for finishing his first marathon in just 3 hours 59 minutes!

Early morning pre-race pic w/ some of my favorite savannah friends!



After the race w/ our medals



• And last but definitely not least, we have officially decided on a name for our little boy.....William Baylor Alderman. We had 5 or 6 names on our list, but we kept coming back to Baylor. William is a family name on my mom's side, and a classic name that I have always loved. But we will call him Baylor. It just fits, and it makes us smile when we say it! We wanted something more special and unique--not a name that is too trendy. I love the fact that it's not on any of the "most common names" lists or "trendy names" lists like some of the other names we were considering. It will be interesting to see if that changes over the years.