| Baby Girl Cox's Name Bracket | ||||||||||
| Elizabeth | 1 | Pink Division | ||||||||
| Sutton | ||||||||||
| Sutton | 16 | |||||||||
| 1 | ||||||||||
| Faye | 9 | |||||||||
| Faye | ||||||||||
| Preslee | 8 | |||||||||
| 9 | ||||||||||
| Karsyn | 12 | |||||||||
| Karsyn | ||||||||||
| Hazel | 5 | |||||||||
| 2 | ||||||||||
| Addison | 11 | |||||||||
| Addison | ||||||||||
| Londyn | 6 | |||||||||
| 13 | ||||||||||
| Claire | 7 | |||||||||
| Paige | ||||||||||
| Paige | 10 | |||||||||
| 3 | ||||||||||
| Natasha | 14 | |||||||||
| Mallory | ||||||||||
| Mallory | 3 | |||||||||
| 10 | ||||||||||
| Parker | 4 | |||||||||
| Natalie | ||||||||||
| Natalie | 13 | |||||||||
| 4 | ||||||||||
| Channing | 2 | |||||||||
| Channing | ||||||||||
| Marshall | ||||||||||
| Lucy | 7 | Purple Division | 15 | |||||||
| Lucy | Champion | |||||||||
| Wilma | 16 | |||||||||
| 5 | ||||||||||
| Paisley | 9 | |||||||||
| Paisley | Tie Breaker: | |||||||||
| McKinley | 8 | |||||||||
| 11 | ||||||||||
| Vivian | 12 | Lbs | ||||||||
| Adley | ||||||||||
| Adley | 5 | |||||||||
| 6 | Oz. | |||||||||
| Brooke | 11 | |||||||||
| Brooke | ||||||||||
| Sage | 6 | |||||||||
| 14 | ||||||||||
| Bridget | 7 | |||||||||
| Peyton | ||||||||||
| Peyton | 10 | |||||||||
| 7 | ||||||||||
| Atalie | 14 | |||||||||
| Madalyn | ||||||||||
| Madalyn | 3 | |||||||||
| 12 | ||||||||||
| Harper | 4 | |||||||||
| Harper | ||||||||||
| Piper | 13 | |||||||||
| 8 | ||||||||||
| Morgan | 2 | |||||||||
| Morgan | ||||||||||
| Campbell | 15 | |||||||||
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Round 1 Results
The big day is FINALLY here! Say a prayer for us and check out your Round 1 brackets!
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Waiting for a little lady
Speaking about my family of origin, the Jeffers family, we aren't huge advocates of being on time. I guess it's not that we don't enjoy it, it's more that we're unable to do it. Some kids win perfect attendance awards in school, I won the "late most days to school" award. I have proudly carried on our tardy tradition throughout my own adulthood and walk in late to most events in my life with my head held high. I once heard some TV therapist say that people who are late are attention seeking. I certainly hope that's not the case.
But if that IS the case, then Miss Wilma (not her real name necessarily) Cox is a very attention seeking person! 7 days...and counting since as I type this I don't feel the foggiest bit close to going into labor! That's a long time to be late. I tend to err on the 5-15 minutes kind of lateness, so 7 days is a little extreme even for me. The other day my husband and I (and when I say husband and I, I mean me) contemplated talking in British accents until I went into labor to perhaps convince her that we are much cooler people than she might think that we are. I mean, wouldn't it be cool to think that you're being born to a family of internationals? For some reason Matthew didn't really go for this, so we have been talking normally. For the most part.
But we have been doing some very fun things to prepare for Baby Girl Cox's arrival. Things like getting a GIRL's room ready!
When we first found out we were pregnant we decided we weren't going to go "over the top" with a room. We decided to do "something easy"- like not painting all four walls. Hmmm. I'm not sure if what we did falls into the category of that exact expectation. Well, I take that back. All we had to do was
- pick a damask stencil out of hundreds of cute ones with the perfect dimensions and design that we were looking for
- go to Lowe's 4 times to pick out the correct swatches of paint that would accent the current room colors since we didn't want to be too "complicated" and paint the four walls that were already painted
- once the stencil arrived perfectly diagram the walls so that it would look completely random and asymmetrical
- carefully select how we would pick each color of our finally decided on palate to be represented on the wall so that no color was repeated in too close a proximity to it's color counterpart
- paint each color grouping so that after each grouping was finished we could clean off the stencil, wait for it to dry and to it again with the next color- except for any stencil that we thought might be a partial which we had to save to do last, but again in color groupings due to the fact that we wanted to save money and only buy one stencil
- find a perfectly matching bedding that would perfectly go with the colors that we chose specifically because they were "non-traditional" girl room colors.
Another way that we have prepared for our baby girl is have immortalized the pregnancy in professional photography fashion. For this project we chose our friend Melinda Hunley with MelHun Photography. Melinda is one of those completely annoying people that is good at all of the cool things in life, is a wonderful mama, finds the time to work out...and always has her hair done by 7:15 am. One of the things that she's good at is photograhy, so she captured our little family on a day we thought was narrowing closer and closer to our little girl's arrival.
And finally, when we're not going to the grocery store "for the last time" or trying for the one millionth time to get the house clean (we've given up on that one, by the way)..or repacking our hospital bag because we actually had to wear all of the clothes that we had already packed..we're just enjoying our last few days as a family of three by:
Hanging out on the birthing ball
teaching Gavin how to cook
eatting as messily as we possibly can
playing our little bracket name game
and knowing that God is the Giver of all good gifts, our Maker and our Sustainer...and when with every passing moment, you're wondering if this is the day that could change your life forever, knowing those things are good enough...even for two late ladies like Wilma and her mama.
Friday, April 13, 2012
Getting ready to be a big brother
Gavin's days as an "only child" are numbered. Any day now, his little world is getting ready to be rocked by a little sister. Somedays I'm so excited for him and can't wait until he gets to meet this little girl who's bound to be one of his best friends, his partner in crime, his conspirator in mischief and a fixture in his life. But there are other days when my heart feels a little tinge of sadness for him, hoping that he'll understand why mommy and daddy might be a little distracted for a few weeks or why he has to be more quiet in the house than he used to or why he's not the only main event any more. I know he has to take one to get the other...and I know that overall it's going to be a completely wonderful transition. He's already started doing some big brotherly things to get ready for the new lady of the house. Things like:
Getting used to her gear:
This won't only be a hard lesson for Gavin- I think that Matthew has been a little overwelmed at how much more gear a girl brings than a guy as well. Bows, ribbons, tutus- for every 1 thing Gavin had as a baby, this little gal has 4! Gavin definitely knows what to do with her bloomers though! I LOVE this- we didn't even do this for him. One day we were going through a box of clothes, he picked up the bloomers, look at them a little curiously at first- and then with conviction and gusto, he put them exactly where he knew they belonged. On his head.
Gavin has also been a big helper getting her room nice and ready.
Gavin loves spending time in "sister's Room". At first I think he liked it because it had lots of tools and painting equipment in it. You better believe he loved helping put down that drop cloth! But now that it's a bit tidier, he still loves to help put things away in her room. He knows right where to go when we ask him "can you go put this in sister's room?"
He's also spending a lot of time serving as our quality control coordinator by making sure all of her stuff works. I love this pic! I came home from one of my showers and laid this blanket out to show Matthew the gift someone gave us (isn't it cute!) and he immediately made a beeline for it and laid down on it. Since then, every time we get it out he comes and lays down on it. We'll have to remember that for "quiet times" here in a few days.
Working on becoming a little gentleman:
Okay, so this pic doesn't have a lot to do with being a big brother..but how cute is that? Doesn't he look just like a little man? He's really gotten into wiping his mouth lately. If he sees any type of towel, napkin or washcloth, he'll go over to it and wipe his little mouth off. So sweet. Unless it's the washcloth we used to wipe his feet off with the night before...and then we make a mad dash to get it from him. Sick.
The other morning at breakfast we sat him in a real seat and gave him his plate and fork and napkin like a big kid. Neither of us could believe how grown up he looked!
And he was pretty proud of himself too.
He's also been learning very well that you're "gentle" with the baby.
Okay, so our genius plan was to get Gavin a baby doll and have "family time" with the doll so that he would know that you "love the baby" and how to be gentle with it. Secretly my two biggest fears are that he'll either try to poke her eyes or feed her real food. Surely a doll can help with those two worries, right? Well, the thought didn't occur to me that he plays with dolls at church, so when we brought the doll home, it wasn't the unfamiliar wonder that we thought she'd be. He made a beeline for her, grabbed her and carried her upside down across the living room floor. So much for my romanticized ideas of getting used to the baby.
But he has had some super cute moments, including changing her diapers, wiping her bottom with dryer sheets instead of wipies, making sure he knows where her belly button is and occassionally we've seen him rocking the dolly and patting her back.
How can that not melt your heart?
Yeah, I think he's gonna be an okay big brother.
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