On January 28th, we gave birth to one sweet and awesome lil’ baby; a girl named Moxie Jain Bergan.

People kept asking me where we came up with the name. Well, we had a baby name book with something like 100,000 different names in it. In the front, before the alphabetized list, there are all these inspirational little sections like “50′s names” or “redneck names” or “popular automobile manufacturers” with girl and boy names below like “Bobby” or “Peaches” or “Mercedes”. Ryan wasn’t a fan of Peaches, unfortunately, but while we were glazing over them we hit one category titled “Mob Names”. Under the boys side, we found names like “Freddie” and “Vito” and on the girls side, the very first one, was “Moxie”. I voiced it to Ryan and he responded in an approving way, so I jotted it down on our list of prospects. Over the next few days, after letting it set, we both revisited and almost instantly agreed and decided that this was for sure going to be the girl name, if it was in fact, a girl.

I’m extremely glad we decided not to find out the sex. To me, it took what was already a big surprise and added a new dimension to the whole event. Immediately after she came out, Ryan and the midwife looked at me with baited breath, because when they placed her on my chest, they didn’t know what the sex was. The whole thing happened so quickly, no one had a chance to peek. With an excited and joyful look, I exclaimed “I dont know!!!” At that moment, I could not have cared less. I was holding my baby, who looked up at me with HUGE  blue eyes, and the world kind of stopped. My midwife, Amy said “Well, peel open the legs!” and I’m like “Oh yeah! Duh!” I yelled “It’s a girl!!” Ryan and I couldn’t have been happier than to get to use the name we had been sitting on for months.

So far, her name fits. When I took her to the pediatrician the nurse asked the doc “What does Moxie mean?” and he goes “It means balls! You know, “the kids got Moxie”" It was awesome. He was right. She’s got a lotta noive that Moxie!

These photo’s were taken from somewhere around her 1st week to 3 1/2 months of life. We have toooooons of photos and vids via iphone that were taken, but these are the more fancy ones. They are all special to me of course, but I figured I’d share to show what I’ve been up to. She’s kinda my everything, this kid. It’s been a difficult yet very worthwhile endeavor, learning how to take care of a baby, and I’m so glad I have this one. This post has been a long time coming, I know, but as you can see, I’ve been a bit tied up.