Our Baby Boy's Name...

As many of you know, at the beginning of the pregnancy, Kyle chose for our baby's name to be a secret. Well, when we found out our baby is a boy we didn't have much of a secret because we didn't even have a boy's name chosen...only a girl name. After lots of time, we finally decided on a name. Then during my 6th month Kyle decided he didn't want to keep it a secret anymore so here we go...

Axel Austin Tillman

Axel (derived from Absalom in the bible meaning 'Father of Peace'): Kyle and I decided that an easier way to look for names is by meaning, not names themselves. We began looking at names that meant liberty. Didn't work. So then we chose peace as our second important meaning and we immediately loved and agreed on Axel. Wow...it still puts a huge smile on my face to think of us choosing this name together and how much the name and our baby Axel already means to us! What a great experience.

Austin (meaning 'great, magnificent'): This is Kyle's middle name. We decided when we found out we were pregnant that our child would have one of our middle names. The meaning fits perfectly into the whole name!

There you go!! We took months deciding on a name and we are very excited to now meet our baby Axel!

I pray that he learns from his name and treasures his name and the place his name comes from.

Easter and 29 weeks pregnant

 EASTER

For Easter this year, Blondie and I were able to go to Mom and Scott's lake house. It was such a relaxing trip, neither of us wanted to come back. Blondie actually was carried to the car by Scott because she did not want to leave the door of the house! lol As you can tell in the pictures the wind was so strong that no boats were out and Blondie couldn't go swimming...Scott's new golf cart was great to drive around and sit by the lake in! BTW, Mom was able to feel our active little baby move for the first time today! What a joy and blessing!!

29 weeks pregnant:

Things went very well this week. No braxton hicks and lots of movement!! It's crazy to think that we're at that point now where doctor's appointments are every other week, so we only have one more week and we get to hear his heart beat again! This is always a very exciting time for Kyle and I both. Here are some pictures of the lake and of the baby and I.

28 Weeks Pregnant

We're getting there!!!! Finally, we have begun the last trimester of this awesome new beginning. 28 weeks and here we are...

Kyle and I were talking about this last trimester; our hopes for this last portion of such a fun time! One of our hopes was that we could treasure this last time of it being just US. Taking time for purposeful interaction and acknowledgment of each other. What can we say...we love each other! =) Another hope was that our baby boy would come early...late enough that he's fully developed, but early because we are so ready to meet him. As Kyle said, "We've waited this long and now I'm just ready!" I mean, we have so much control over when he comes and all, I'm sure this hope will be met! lol

A little catching up to 28 weeks: weight gain (yuck) - no matter how come I am gaining weight, it stinks! and braxton hicks... our first experience of braxton hicks contractions wasn't to bad...tears were shed, yoga positions used and little sleep AND we made it through. When the baby finally moved, he moved onto my bladder - so to help me feel better, at 2 am Kyle brought me gelato and we sat on the bathroom floor eating gelato together!! I'm telling you, through the morning sickness to the false contractions we have many memories - many of which are funny...now!

Here we go: