Ingenue Mom

Lux Violet Born Friday, October 12 at 3:56pm 7 lbs 15 oz 20 inches long I've been enjoying the last week or so & haven't taken the time to blog about everything. Lux finally arrived & it has been really amazing! Welcoming a second child into the world was extremely challenging, but also so fulfilling! I have loved adding a new member to our family & seeing how it changes the dynamic between all of us. It has been a really enjoyable change & I'm happy to say that Isis is dealing with it really well! She loves helping & holding her & always wants to tell me how pretty she is.   I've been working on my birth story. It's a little long, but I think I'm just going to leave it as it is. I want to remember it fully. I also had a birth photographer this time & I'm excited to share some of her pictures! All of that is coming up in the next week!

We find out on May 29 whether we are having a boy or a girl. I am very excited to know & to start preparing! I get so much more attached to the baby in pregnancy when I can call the baby by name. But speaking of names, we've made a decision this time that is different than what we did with Isis. We have decided not to reveal the baby's name to anyone until they are born. I wrote this post right after I found out Isis was a girl. We had chosen her name and were very excited about it and were surprised to find out that people had some very strong opinions against unusual names.  We have a boy name and 2 potential girl names picked out for our baby and all of them are unusual, along the same lines as Isis' name. We are super excited and look forward to the big reveal when the baby comes! It'll be fun to tell everyone this time because nobody is going to be rude when they are holding my beautiful baby! Isis has totally grown into her name and it is perfect for her a...

So we've come up with some names... For a girl, we love Isis . Maybe Isis Aurora. It's different without being super weird and I don't know of any other baby girls named Isis around here!! For a boy, we like Knox . But here's my problem: that is what Angelina Jolie named her son. That annoys me to death!!!! Is everyone going to think I named my kid after her son? Because she's okay and everything, but I like that name DESPITE OF the fact that she named her kid that. Not BECAUSE she did. I don't know...what do you think? We're pretty much sold on Isis. You can probably bet on that being the girl name if it's a girl. We are not 100% sold on Knox, but only because of the Angelina thing. We also like the name Jett. But that's a celebrity's kids name too!! Grrrrrrrrr.