A New Baby Person!

Some of you already know that our new baby was born yesterday, April 3rd at 12:02am. He weighed 7lb 9oz and was 21" long. Since the hospital doesn't allow children under 12 to visit we were anxious to escape so we could introduce the baby to his many and very excited siblings. So they let us go that day, we got home at about 6pm. The only thing that kind of has been slowing us down is that the dear boy has no name yet. But we have named all the other children and we are confident that this child also will receive a name. . . soon.

The kids went to school today and came home desperate to see new brother! They've had fun holding him and suggesting names. Alana holds out strong in her opinion that his name is "Kermit the Frog"; Tessa really loves the name she gave her chicken "Fish Blob" and thinks that it would work well for the baby too (she's kinda weird); Leah hasn't made too many suggestions, hopefully she'll just support us in whatever name we give him; Jeffer has lots of suggestions, Joseph, Eric, Matthew, etc. but my favorite was that he thinks we could name him "Jeff", apparently Jefferson likes his name and thinks it is suitable for all Livingstone boys.

Tessa and her boys stopped by for a visit today and we got to feel so happy about how we just have one each, but we did try them on as if they were twins. She did much better holding both of them, but I think it's because she's been training for that event.

Ellis is 2 weeks older than little what's his name. The size difference is impressive but not as much as the difference between Brighty and our Tessa at Kirsti & Brad's wedding 5 years ago when our 2 week old girl was scrawny and their 9 week old girl was. . .very well fed. They've evened up a bit since then.