Belly shots and baby names

I was going to have B take a belly shot, and Liv really wanted me to hold her so I thought she could be in there too :) 

Its gotten kind of hard to put her to bed at night because a large part of her going to bed is rocking and cuddles in the rocking chair. My belly gets in her way. I miss being able to hold her so close to me and rock her. When I'm standing I can just lift her over my belly, but when we're sitting in the rocking chair she fidgets around for awhile trying to get comfy and ends up laying her night night blankie over my stomach and her head on my stomach. Its really kind of adorable, but at the same time, I miss actually getting to cuddle with her up close.

I'm so excited to see her as a big sister! I have loved all the time we've had to be just a family of three, and for Liv to get so much time with Mommy and Daddy, but now as I see her personality come out more and more I know she was meant to be a big sister and she will be a wonderful one.

She loves her already!

As soon as we found out this baby was a girl we naturally started thinking of names.

We had a small handful of names that we had thought of naming Olivia that we still loved and wanted to use. With Olivia we decided fairly early on. This time we've had a harder time deciding which name to use. We narrowed it down to 2 names that we both just loved and couldn't decide because any time we picked one, I got sad that the other one wasn't going to be used, haha. 

So we said we'll just let those 2 names roll around in our heads until we feel which is right. As months passed we threw in a few more names to the list, and then {in time} crossed off most of those names, we have finally come to the decision of what this baby will be named. If you already guessed that it is the same name that we liked from the very beginning then you are a genius and absolutely right! Her name will be Scarlett Emma. I guess we should just go with our gut next time because even after months of mulling it over in our minds that was the name that we both felt would be right for this baby.

Part of why I think we just kept coming back to this one is because of Olivia. Every time we came up with a new name we would test run it with Liv and make her say "baby ____" just to see how cute it sounded coming from her mouth. After giving her so many different names to call baby, I started just asking her "what's the baby's name?" because I was curious to see which out of the lot she would remember, if any. She would always (and still does) get the sweetest smile and say "baby Sca-ret". It melts my heart and I love that she seemed to already have a preference as to what her sister's name should be.

 I kind of have this feeling we are destined to be a family of girls (I totally had this conversation of why we would be a family of all girls after I found out Olivia was a girl, haha and so far its coming true!), so I think we might still get a chance to use our other names :)