The Hixon House: It's a BOY!!!

July 10th was the day we've been anxiously waiting for, the day to tell us whether Baby Hixon was a boy or a girl! I was really getting tired the past couple weeks leading up to this day of referring to my child as an "it". Really there's not much option since I didn't know, but "it" got old after awhile. Plus, it's hard to do too much shopping when you don't know, which may have been a good thing. We could have found out earlier than our 20 wk. appointment, but I wanted to know for sure what "it" was. I'd heard too many stories of people that found out at 16 wks. or earlier and then were told at their 20 wk. appointment that they were having the other gender. For Casey and I, we decided we would rather wait and have that certainty.
The ultrasound tech took some other measurements before and then she says "Here we go!". Before she said anything else, Casey looked at the ultrasound and said, "And that's a penis". The tech replied back, "Yes it is", so WE ARE HAVING A BOY! Thankfully, it was very obvious we have a boy, so there were no doubts in our minds. I had tried the night before to talk with Casey about boy names since that had still not been decided, but he did not see the point of doing so because we both thought it was a girl. I honestly wasn't too shocked it was boy, Casey is 1 of 3 boys after all. Casey was thrilled to not have to pay for a wedding, go to dance recitals, and to teach his son baseball (they were said in that order). Not having any brothers, I'm looking forward to having this little guy and know what it's like to have a son. Most importantly, God gave us what we needed. The Hixon name will continue for another generation and hopefully he'll be and look just like his Daddy!
So the bright pink onesie Casey's Pawpaw bought on the cruise because he was so certain it was a girl will have to be stored for now. Knowing what to buy/look for and refer to the baby as a "he" was so nice! It took us awhile to decide on a name. We both went through the baby name book quite a few times trying to find just the right name. All I can say is naming a person is serious business and not something we took lightly. What I wanted for my child as far as their name was it to be common enough that it was not unheard of, but not so common that there would be 3 other kids in their class with the same name. Plus, you've got to take out family/close friend names that have already been used. There's no rule that says you can't repeat, but my main point in doing so was to minimize confusion when there were get together's.
We knew for the middle name we wanted that be a name after someone in our family. We were able to narrow that name down to 2 possibilities very quickly. His first name took some discussion. Though I wanted to pull the "I'm birthing him" card to give me at least a 60% say rather than the fair 50-50, I knew that was not the right way to go. After much talk, we came down to one name that we could both agree upon. The name we have chosen for our son is....

Caden John Hixon

We didn't want to experiment with any funky spellings and Casey was very adamant no feminine spellings. I've seen Caden spelled with either a C or K, but since we decided his middle name was going to be John, Casey wanted them to have the same initials. As someone who had the same initials as their Dad, I thought that would be special too. The middle name is sentimental to us both for 3 reasons: it's Casey's middle name that he wanted to pass down to his first son, Casey's father is named John, and I have an uncle on my side of the family that I love/admire also named John, so it was a perfect fit for us! Here are some pictures of Baby Caden at 20 wks 2 days: