First Look at Brooklyn Nicole

We have confirmation that Baby Lott #2 is indeed a girl! We also decided to go ahead and announce that her name is going to be...

Brooklyn Nicole Lott

Nicole is my older sister's name, and Brooklyn is a name we just like that also nicely fits the family trend of Jacquelyn (my full name), Judith Lynn (Mom), and Evelyn (maternal grandma). With Hayden, we honestly didn't decide on his name until a few minutes after he was born. We liked both Hayden and Isaac and wanted to 'meet' him to see what we felt like his name should be. But this time, Phil and I both love the name Brooklyn and don't have any other names we both love as much. So there it is. Our niece, who is due mid-June, is going to be named Madison, so I guess there's a bit of a New York theme (or just geographical, if you're thinking of Madison, WI) in the Lott family!

At our UltraSound appointment, there was extra time so the technician asked if she could practice a new 4D system on us. It was a little creepy because they looks so alien-ish at this stage, but also cool to see such a more realistic view of the baby. See this short little video:



Here are some standard UltraSound pictures of her profile:


And of her forearms and fists over her face:


Brooklyn and Hayden are going to have to share a bedroom until we can upgrade our house to a 3+ Bedroom (technically, ours is 3 bedrooms, but the 1st floor bedroom would be a terrible baby room because it is so far from the 3rd floor bedrooms, it's cold and has an outside entrance. It is also needed for my office). So, ideally, we would eventually get a 3 bedroom + den or something that could accommodate a work area for me. But that is just a fantasy right now. We have to make do with what we have.

Hayden's room is very small as it is, so we need to get creative with the layout. I think the best plan is to try to move him to a toddler bed for his 2nd birthday. A toddler bed uses the same size mattress as a crib, so it won't last too long with his growing rate, but I don't think a twin bed + crib would work in his room. And I hope that by transitioning him to the toddler bed for his 2nd birthday, he'll have time to adjust to it before Brooklyn moves in and "takes his crib". She'll be in a bassinet in our room for the first couple months anyway, so that will give him more time, too. I just don't want Hayden to feel like Brooklyn is booting him out of his crib and taking over his room.

We're also going to re-paint the blue accent wall to a more gender-neutral light green. I got some cute green, pink, and brown bedding at Target for Brooklyn:


I need to find Hayden some cute trucks bedding for his new bed, hopefully with some green in there to tie it together. I really liked this line from Pottery Barn Kids:


But of course it is discontinued, and it never came in Toddler size anyway (just twin and +). But I'm basically looking for something similar. Well, also cheaper ;)

Update: That PBK line IS still available in the Baby line, so I went ahead and ordered the fitted sheets, quilt, and pillow sham. Yay!!