It's A Boy and He Shall Be Named...

Cohen William Harden

We will call him Cohen. I just remembered that I had not even posted the announcement of the sex and his name! We were between two boy names for a while before we knew the sex. When we found out, we decided a few days later on Cohen. It is not a family name (it's a Jewish surname...so obviously, not a family name; I just googled it too and it's also Gaelic..but not from Jonathan's stint in Ireland). We just liked the name for a long time. Back in 2006, we we first started trying we were talking on Google chat one day while I was at work (hope my old Stern boss doesn't read this). When were both looking at a baby names website and discussing names. I saved the chat and have referenced it for our child namings and laughs for the funny banter that went back and forth. Cohen was high up on the list on that chat. Jackson was never discussed, but Jackson was only picked for the "JDH." Neat thing about the chat: at the end of our convo, our #1 name was Reese for a boy or a girl. However, our friends the Greens named their 2nd child Reese (unknowing our like for it, of course). Boy, they have really good taste in friends and names ;)

And William comes from my Mom's maiden name Williams. She is very special to us, and we want to pass that along to our little Cohen!

Well just wanted to keep you all up-to-date on baby Cohen. The baby belly is ever-growing. It is amazing how much more I am showing with this second one. I guess the ab muscles didn't have time to recover just 6-7 months after Jackson!

BTW...Jackson had surgery yesterday for tubes in his ears. They ended up taking his adenoids also. Today is is great and back to normal, minus lots of thick nasal drainage and very TERRIBLE breath! Now maybe he will sleep through the night for the first time in his life!