Mike & Cami Peterson: Franklin Ace Peterson

So I know I am horrible at updating our blog, new goal... update at least once a month. But the past year has been spent for the most part preparing and getting ready for this little guy:

Franklin Ace Peterson
Born October 8, 2011 at 8:32 pm
Weighed 7 lbs 12 oz and was 20 inches long.

I would not let many people take pictures of me pregnant but this is one Caitlin snuck in at one of my showers. It was exactly one week before he was born.

We got his nursery ready pretty early, but once my mom got her at the end of September she helped me put up some final touches. We got all of our bedding and such for free from Mike's boss which made it so much easier to pick the jungle theme, because that was what she gave us. If she hadn't, I think I would have probably given myself an anurism trying to decide what to do.

This was the first day we brought him home. Sydney loves him and is very protective over him. She will not let the cat get anywhere near him and is the first to his side to respond to his cries. When we go for walks she has to periodically jump on the side of the stroller to make sure that he is okay before she continues.

This is the first picture that was taken of our new little family, obviously neither me or Mike were paying attention but I like it just the same. It's pretty adorable because Mike was actually talking to the nurse already worried about the little noises he was making, sounding like something was in his throat, and was making sure he was okay and if there was anything we should be doing.

It suprised us both that he has such light hair, and it looks super red when put in the sunlight.

We named him Ace, after Ace Enders who is our favorite muscian. Mike and I have been to a few of his concerts together. It was the first concert we ever had gone to together, where Ace Enders held my hand and make preceded to tell me that I wasn't allowed to wash it and he was going to chop it off and hang it on the wall (romantic from the start I tell ya!) ;) I was also wearing an Early November shirt the first time that we kissed, and it was one of the only things that Ace responded to in the womb when I played music for him. Mike told me when we first got married that's what he wanted to call his first kid, and this whole time we were trying to pick a name he only liked names that he could get "Ace" as a justified nickname. So finally, after much deliberation and us being to of the most undesicive people I asked him what he would call him which was Ace, no matter what his name was so we decided to just go ahead and use that. A lot of people don't like it but it has meaning to us and we like it which is all that really matters. We also used Franklin, which is Mike's dad's name. We figured since he was the first grandson we would name him after his paternal grandfather as well.