Drum rolllll!!

Last night we settled on what we thought his name should be. Every time we got to see him we would try to call him some of the possibilities, and kept narrowing it down.

We prayed for some help knowing his name, it just felt like a spiritual matter.

We thought we had settled on the matter right before we went up for Kristen to hold him for the first time. It felt a little funny to be calling him that name. We weren't sure why. We thought maybe we just got too used to "Wolverine"... then the nurse spoke to him, and used the name that we had told the NICU, and we both, we found out later, thought, "Why are you calling him that, that's not his name." It took someone else using it to realize that we hadn't got it yet. We figured we needed to keep thinking on it to see if we wanted to change it or not.

When I went home last night in my prayers I asked again to help know his name.... looking back now it is so apparent that the weird feelings we had were to help us know that we didn't have it right yet...

I got the strong feeling after I prayed that I should read the scriptures some...

Now, I'm not very good about reading my scriptures, so a midnight scripture reading isn't part of my normal routine, plus I am still trying to catch back up on my sleep, but I figured, sure, why not. As I got out the scriptures I remembered that's where we kept the little notebook we used during church to play around with name possibilities. I read through them, and the name that had ended up second on our list the day before, (same middle name), just seemed written bigger than everything else, we had even written a star next to it.

Not sure if reading that list was the only reason I was supposed to do some midnight scripture study I decided to let them fall open to wherever, and read the first highlighted scripture. The scripture said that once you have heard "these things" you could ask God in prayer if they were true, and that he would confirm. So I had another little prayer, and went ot bed. Knowing I had something worth talking to Kristen about.

Without claiming I KNEW his name, I mentioned this one again, and Kristen agreed. She wanted to try it out in person again.

Today Kristen and I both felt like we had it this time. We went up to see him before I took off to class, it felt so natural to call him by his name this time. I asked the nurse to use his name, since that was what underlined the mistake last time, and it sounded perfect.

So with no further ado, may I announce....







I have some more pics to post and little details to share, I didn't want to make this one any longer though.

Tune in tomorrow.