Here are the pictures of my belly! The first one is at 22 weeks and the second at 26 weeks pregnant. That was just a month difference! I didn't even realize it got this much bigger until I took these pictures. I keep feeling her rolling around in there so it not for nothing. :) I can't believe how big it's going to be at the end.

Our favorite name

We have discovered a name both of us like a lot. We are considering Avelyn Marie Shanahan as a name for our daughter. We found the first name on an Irish names website http://www.babynamesofireland.com/pages/girl-names-d-g.html and it was spelled in Gaelic. That spelling is Eibhleann, which would be very confusing to English speakers to figure out! So we are considering other spellings like Eihvlyn, Avelyn, or Avelinn. The meaning of the name is "pleasant, beautiful, radiant." There was a 17th century love-song composed by the harpist Cearbhall O'Dalaigh that uses a variation of Eibhleann in the title and it is still a popular piece of music at Irish weddings. We really like the meaning of the name and that it is irish like our last name.