Belly Watch Alert! Twenty-seven Weeks

Here she is in all her gestational glow. Bring on the comments!

Baby Registry

The baby registry is up and running. We're still figuring out what we'll need, but we think we have a good representation of staples that will help us get Chili-bee off to a great start. I've heard talk about showers coming up and we've had requests to get this together so here it is:

http://www.myregistry.com/public/babyGV

Thanks for checking it out and let me know if it needs maintenance, clarification, or anything else.

Eastern Phoebe by Dan Lane

A friend of ours Dan Lane is a world-renowned bird illustrator. We work together at the LSU Museum of Natural Science and have a shared interest in Peruvian birds. Well, Kimberly and I asked Dan if he would paint an Eastern Phoebe for us and this is what he did for his first painting of 2011. WOW! Thanks for helping us decide on a name. We're definitely locked in now.

Name Decision

We have plodded through the baby name book, mined the baby name websites, and called out candidate names in our best you're-in-trouble voice. We think we've finally settled on a name for the baby girl that is increasingly making her presence known.

Phoebe Kay Gibbons will most likely stick. The abbreviation doesn't offend or lend itself to any more teasing than usual and most of all, we like it.

From the Baby Name Wizard website, Phoebe is Greek for bright or shining. In poetry, Phoebe is the moon personified. In Greek mythology, she was a Titan. It is a genus of plant, a common name for the three Sayornis flycatcher bird species, and a moon of Saturn, which was named after the Titan.

In the US it barely breaks the top 400 most popular names, but in England, it's in the top 40. Nicknames include Phebes, Bee, Chili-bee, Phee. PK could be used too. Well, what do you think?