I wrote all the names on our white board.

You will notice some that were not on the comments of the other post. Those came to me through text messages.

Dave & Little Bug voted for Cowboy while Sweet Pea & I voted for Beau.

Then, Sarge was the tie breaker. I laid out the vanilla toy ice cream cone (Beau) and the strawberry toy ice cream cone (Cowboy) and told him to get one.

He picked vanilla!

(This was my attempt to chase him down and get a picture of him with the vanilla ice cream)

So Baby 4's blog name will be...

BEAU!!!!

A dear friend text me the idea of "Beau". It stands for Beauty because God has taken ashes and made beauty in more ways than one during this journey.

Please step up your prayers for us this coming week and pray for a peaceful process.

I will be back with an update as soon as I can.

This is the baby doll I bought when we were waiting for Sweet Pea. I would tell Little Bug I had to "feed the baby", "change the baby" to get her used to the idea that I would have to care for the baby as well as her. I brought it out again last week and started doing the same with Sarge. This boy is a big Mama's boy and he isn't so sure about this baby doll, although he loves to crawl up in the chair with me while I am "feeding" the doll. Then he proceeds to stick his little finger in the doll's nose and eyes. That's a promising interaction right there!

I keep referring to this baby doll as "his baby". Even at under two years old, I want him to know Baby Beau will be our baby to love and hold.

- Elaine