April 21

April 21 is Lyla Joy's due date. This is the first time I've actually had that due date in my head. It happens to be Easter time, so there have been a lot of jokes about Lyla being our little bunny. It's so nice to know the baby's gender ahead of time and to call her by name, which is nothing we were able to do for our kids. In the video we took just before Kelsey's birth, Kris says her name will be Kelsey Barbra or Kyla Ruth, or Jonathan Daniel if it's a boy. We just lived with the uncertainty. It's so nice now not to call Lyla "it" or "the baby", we can call her by name like the person that she is. Mark and Katie has a block letter sign in their street-facing window that says "JOY". I wonder if this just because of Christmas or on purpose because Mark's mother was named Joy and Lyla's middle name will be Joy....