Ball, Cap

Yep. That is how Cap's name will look on an alphabetical name chart one day. Ball Cap. We didn't know that before, but it is kind of funny. I put much thought into all the names we came up with to make sure to cross out any obvious and not so obvious options that could be made fun of later on in life. Not catching Ball Cap...well, not so bad.

Since in high school, I have secretly jotting names down in my journal as possible options for names for my future children. Seems silly I am sure, but I knew I wouldn't remember them. I will admit, my taste has changed a lot since I was 16! Thank goodness the Lord gave us our first child when I was 29.

I look at naming your child as a pretty big deal. In the Bible, names significant and were always given for its meaning.

Jacob: supplanter, follower

Matthew: gift of God

Josiah: supported by God

Mara: bitter, sad

So we wanted a name with great meaning and of course something we liked as well.

Cap: Comes from El Capitan, a 3,000 vertical rock in Yosemite National Park. This amazing piece of granite is extremely popular among rock climbers around the world. Generally called 'El Cap'. Bryce has climbed to the top on 2 different occasions. The day Bryce and I started dating we climbed just a couple of pitches on El Cap that morning. Yosemite is where we met and fell in love. The Sierra Mountains in general have a big piece of both of our hearts. How fitting we feel to name our son Cap. It is a name with adventure and we hope he has many with and without us!

Elias: This is a form of Elijah which we went back and forth on. We both love the meaning " The Lord is my shepherd". Our prayer before he even came to be with us in person is that he would have ears and a heart that hears and follows the Lord. We pray that he would follow Jesus' teaching at a young age and be a world changer (in whatever way that means).

There you have it. I already call him many names, but mostly Cap.

We visited cousins these past couple of days while Bryce went

out of town on a backpacking scouting trip.

I love gowns for night time. Makes it easy to change diapers

at 3am. Thank you Aunt Tammy!!

First road trip of many!

Sleeping in the sun with cousins Graeme and Miri

during PC tennis match. No worries, Cap was shaded just

not for the pic.

This was his going home from hospital outfit.

Already getting hard to snap the bottom.

He was sleeping in a laundry basket next to our bed.

Out grew it quickly.

Switched to co-sleeper thing on the ground.

Almost too big for it, so now we are on to our crib.

No problem switching to it.

This just makes me laugh!!