Shelley is now in labor and we are expecting the baby today. We'll announce the name when the baby is born, but here are some hints.
it's a girl
the name is both that of an island and plant
the following is the distribution for the name's popularity in the US (the higher the shape, the more popular the name was that year)
Email Kendall your guesses (if you want) or reply to this blog post.
Update:
Thanks for all the name guesses. Hazel Island is Located Here Hazelnut Tree
The name Hazel peaked in popularity in the 1890's (an 1890's typical Hazel shown below)
Shelley is now past her due date and very ready for the baby to come out and enjoy an external Christmas. Shelley has been awesome. She has been walking, cleaning the house, and even doing Pilates, via Jessie her sister/instructor.
We also got a zoo membership and Cayman and I went today and checked out the petting zoo. Cayman first made sure he pet each animal exactly once in frantic around the stable frenzy. He then found a beautiful white goat sitting on a box and quietly climbed up and sat next to it. He sat there with the goat for almost 10 minutes. He occasionally pet it and even kissed the goat a couple times. The goat gave gentle goat noises of approval.
At the zoo, Cayman also got to go on his first Marry-Go-Round. He choose a fiberglass panda, but that turned out to be a slightly scary experience. Cayman was brave, however, and made through all six revolutions.
So Shelley went to Big Bear with the girls so it is just Cayman and Dad this weekend. Here are our adventures.
Friday afternoon we went a 6 mile bike ride and played in the park. Cayman went down the slide so many times he turned red so we headed home to get some water. After changing we headed to BJ's to eat good food and watch the Dodger game.
Road Trip!
More Pizza Please
More Burger Please.
More French Fry Please.
No Lettuce Please.
More Ketchup Please.
Why are we out of Ketchup?
Awesome shop Dad, buy more Magic cards.
Saturday we got up at 5:00 AM and did some laundry and watered the yard. Then we headed to the Burbank High dance programs pancake breakfast. The pancakes were great and we even got to see a dance performance and sit with the principal. Cayman fell asleep on the way home:
After Cayman's long nap we headed to a rock yard to look at large rocks, trucks, and forklifts. Then we went to Bob's with Sparkey.
Sunday morning we played in the yard and then went on a bike ride and Cayman fell asleep.
