The Name Debate

Seven weeks and counting, no name yet. By this time with the last two we had a list of names Kirk and I were both willing to accept - this time, nothing. Kirk REALLY likes the idea of calling my daughter Cat/Kat (I've never let the conversation go far enough to find out what spelling he has in mind). The idea would be to name her Katherine/Catherine or Kathleen and then call her Cat/Kat for short. I'm really not a fan of this, and I don't really know why. The idea of naming my daughter with the intention of calling her an animal is not appealing, and especially the spelling "Kat" conjures up images of promiscuity that I don't want associated with my daughter.

Anyway, the point of this post is to consider the possibility that I'm overreacting - not trash my husband's opinions. Believe it or not, I'm prone to stubbornness and overreactions, and I like to blame the current intensity of the situation on the fact that I'm the size of a whale and getting new aches and pains everyday :)

I googled "Cat/Kat" to see if my suspicions were correct and of course "Cat" brought up images of a cat and for "Kat" - well let's just say don't google it. But then I checked Anna and Natalie, and those images weren't any better so I suppose any girl's name is going to bring up trashy photos - sad world we live in.

Anyway, like I said, Kirk loves the name, and I have names I like, but nothing I love. Should I be less stubborn and consider Cat/Kat or do you all agree that this name should be overlooked?

Funny Kid

Me: "Ok Dominic, let's go get in the bath"

Dominic: "No, go away mommy, I sleeping". (snoring noises as he lays against the wall).

Finally an Update

We had a great couple of months at the end of 2009. I had a birthday, we celebrated the holidays with family, and Kirk and I celebrated 6 years of marriage. Below is all the pictures I have from Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years etc. (Pretty sad, I know. At least we do have some video of the kids on Christmas morning which includes their new kitchen set falling on top of them :)

Things at the Pavkov house are a little crazy. I am still trying to dig out from Christmas and I think nesting is setting in since our new baby should be here in about 9 weeks. I am trying to figure out how best to fit our growing clan in our home, which will include Talie and Nic sharing a room which likely means no sleep for me...

I started my third masters course last night and it looks like the professors I have this semester are going to be pretty flexible with me having a baby in March which is great!

Kirk will start his final semester at Akron next week and we are pretty excited that he's almost done!

Dominic has become obsessed with cows - the best we can guess is this stems from meeting a cow at chick-fil-a - but he is pretty funny always talking about cows and barns, or "cow houses". We are working on moving him into a toddler bed, so far, not so good. And, we're going to get a little more aggressive on the potty training soon. I am really hoping not to have 3 kids in diapers.

Natalie is a little spit fire. She is learning quickly and is very smart. She is starting to say more, learning most of her vocabulary from her brother, including things like "tractor". Her hair is growing in as a total mullet. I've been dying to put this girl's hair in bows and pony tails and it will not grow on the top! Natalie also has perfected the tantrum, I think 15 months is a little young to be throwing yourself on the floor screaming just because you can't do something, but what do I know? While she has quite the temper, Natalie is also very sweet and will give you hugs and "kisses" which are more like a lick. It sure is fun to see my kids grow.

Baby girl is closer to getting here, will hopefully have a place to sleep when she does, and will hopefully have a name - but as of right now - we're not any closer on that note. The pregnancy is going well and even though I'd rather skip the last trimester, I really can't complain too much. Considering how busy we all are I feel great.

Thanksgiving Day

These two pictures above were taken Christmas morning and are a pretty good indication of why I don't take many pictures. It's almost impossible! Dominic will not look at the camera no matter what and Natalie tries to attack the camera...

Natalie with her new baby and stroller.

Dominic with one of his fav. Christmas toys. A cheap plastic cow that "moos". Notice he won't look at the camera :)