Sugar, sugar!

Well, thankfully sugar is no longer a concern for us!

After failing my first glucose test, I had to go back in for a three hour gestational diabetes diagnostic test where I drank a super concentrated sweet drink and had my blood drawn four times over three hours. Slightly felt like a pin cushion, but it was well worth it to find out that I am diabetic free! Whew!

So, barring no other unforeseen issues or complications, we should be coasting through these final two-ish months (hoping for more like two months! :)). We count our blessings daily for how smoothly this pregnancy has gone.

We had a sonogram at 28 weeks (now mostly through my 29th week), and everything went well. B-cubed looked great weighing 2lbs, 13 oz. and measuring 14.9 inches long. His size was in the 72nd percentile, and his head was in the 83rd percentile. (Large heads are certainly a 'Person' trait, and from the looks of my husband, I wouldn't put it past it being a 'Bronson' trait, too!) He is doing well and is learning to push from both sides of my stomach at the same time. His newest pushing exercise has found its way under my right-side ribs...good times when I am sitting down! :)

And, did I mention that we chose a name? We started the name journey thinking that we wouldn't share anything until he was born. We put all of our choices into a list on a website called nameberry.com. It is a great website that tells you name origin, a description of the name, and other forms of the name. We had several names to choose from, and each week we would try out a new one. There were only two names that actually made it into the "keepers" list, and we would take turns pairing them back to a name on the other list to see if we liked any first and second name combinations. Finally, we asked ourselves why we weren't just using our two favorite names together?

When we actually made our decision, we shared initials with a few friends and family members. Then we decided that we were being silly, and that we were probably going to let the name slip out at some point. So we shared the actual name with that same group of family and friends, but it is time to share it with you. After many months of pouring over family genealogy, we chose Andersson Keene Bronson, and we will call him Anders.

Andersson appears many times in Adam's paternal grandmother's Swedish side of the family. (Nanna was a genealogy fanatic, and kept amazing records so it was easy to find information and stories.) In Swedish tradition, the father would be named Anders, and his son would be named Andersson. In fact, Mark and PJ (Adam's parents) met a relative named Anders on a trip they made to Sweden many years ago, and said he was an adorable man with a wonderful personality! Am sure those are family traits that will be passed on to our Anders, as well. :) And from nameberry.com, we learned that Anders is the Swedish version of Andrew, which happens to be Adam's middle name. We decided that it couldn't be a more perfect fit!

Keene appears six generations back on my maternal grandmother's side of the family. My Gran is also a genealogy fanatic, and had told me about a relative named Benjamin Franklin Keene that was a doctor in Georgia and was bitten by the Gold Rush bug of 1849. He headed west to California before giving up mining to go back to medicine. Today he is known for being the Founder and First President of the California Medical Association. Adam and I both latched on to the name Keene early on so it stuck around until the final choice!

Mom, Adam, and Anders continue to do well, and we are all excitedly anticipating these next two months.