Liam Jakob

The week of Christmas 2009, Josh and I found out we were going to have another baby. It has been a whirlwind pregnancy....completely different than the two before. I wasn't sick, I haven't gotten very big, I have craved ONLY apples and oranges, and have been EXHAUSTED! We just knew that these differences were because we were having a girl. On April 1, 2010, we found out that we were going to have another boy. The day we found out, we didn't have a name, had NO idea what we were going to name the baby other than we wanted the middle name to be Jakob..so..the name HAD to go with Jakob. The rest of the day was spent tossing names around. Finn, Liam, etc..I liked Finn but we had a little chuckle over Finn Griffin...and Josh liked Liam..but he said he would be fine with whatever I liked. That night, I went to bed. In my sleep, I had a dream, I was having a conversation with God. He was in front of me while I spoke with him. I asked him, "God, why couldn't you have sent me a girl? You know we are done after this baby, why couldn't we have a girl this time?" God said to me, "Misty, I sent to you the baby that your Grandfather chose for you." I said, "but why couldn't it have been a girl?" God said, "Misty, I am sending the child that your Grandfather and I chose for you." The next morning, I felt in my heart that this baby, this little miracle inside of me, his name was Liam. It just felt right in my heart. Later that day, I texted Josh a picture of an outfit that I had bought and I wrote, Liam's first outfit. He replied, Love it, the name and the outfit. When I got home, I decided that Britton's name means of British decent, Aidan's name means born of fire, I needed to know what Liam means. I looked it up...Liam means "the one who protects". Grandpa and God sent me a child and gave him the name "the one who protects". Then I got to thinking about it and realized that his middle name Jakob, and God appeared to me the same way he appeared to Jacob in the Bible, in a dream!

I have no doubt that God wants me to have this adorable boy in my tummy...Liam Jakob, I cannot wait to see you face to face. I love you,

Mommy