The Decision

I left the powder at home.





Man, this whole pregnancy experience, looking forward to it.





This process has been everything I've thought and more.





I have enjoyed it. And I want to thank my wife. And our doctors, also.





It's been an unbelievable experience, a real humbling experience to be even to be in this position...





No one knows our decision right now.





I think we decided this morning. I mean, we decided this morning. It went day to day. We'd wake up one morning, it's this name. We'd wake up another morning, it's that name. And it's a process that we felt was the best opportunity for us and our son.





No. We don't have any doubts at all.





In this fall, this is very tough, in this fall we're going to name our son...Ryne Bailey Ewald





That was supposed to be a parody of the Lebron James "Decision" that ESPN aired this past July. Lebron James was criticized a great deal for how he handled his decision, and therefore it has been mocked at great lengths. If you are interested in seeing Lebron's decision, I'm sure that you can find it on YouTube. So I realize that not many of you probably realized where I was going with this, but I really enjoyed it and thought that it was clever.





Seriously though, Bailey is a great middle name! It is my middle name, and it is my mother's maiden name. James was a front runner for Ryne's middle name until July. I really liked the name James, and so did Amy. James is my mother's father's name (whom I unfortunately was never able to meet). James is my brother's middle name. James is Lebron's last name. Lebron, before he made a fool of himself with his "Decision," was my current, favorite basketball player. If Lebron had taken his "basketball talents" to the Chicago Bulls, I would have pushed EXTREMELY HARD for our son to be named Ryne James Ewald. However, that didn't happen.





We are happy to announce, on this blog, that our son will be named Ryne Bailey Ewald.