..Girl!
So, I am a little (ok… very) late in delivering this, but we found out our baby (still affectionately known as “Munchkin”) is a girl!
We do have a couple names we’re considering, including Nayla & Nyrobi, and whole bunch of other ones.
But those are our favourites right now. You can see pictures of her here!
We drove out to Ohio this past weekend, to join Tamika’s old roommate Vinny and her fiance Paul for their wedding. Vinny was Tamika’s roommate in college, and she also lived with her after she graduated.
Cleveland is beautiful. Very very flat, but pretty. Rolling countryside, with lots and lots of trees, and Amish carriages every 500 feet. We were introduced and welcomed in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Miller, a couple that Vinny had gotten to know.
They reminded me a lot of my parents; just really nice welcoming people. Both in their 50’s, (though you’d never guess), she loves baking wedding cakes and cooking, and he loves archery, woodworking, pool, and makes his own wine. Yeah, you heard me. His own wine. He grows fruit trees in his yard (which is huge) and mixes it in with a “grape base” as he called it, and makes specialty wine which he stores down on enormous wine racks he also made himself. Very cool people.
We were miles from anything too, and it was the first time in a long time I really felt peaceful. I slept like a baby while we were there. It was just… quiet. It reminded me of home.
I miss home.