What should we name our baby BOY?

(A profile picture of the little guy. Looks like maybe he is growing a goatee.)

We finally (now that I am 29 weeks along) had our ultrasound recently and found out we are expecting another BOY! We are really super excited. Graham kept telling us all along that it was a boy, and we agreed with him. He is quite an intuitive child. We have yet to agree with him on names for this new little boy, however. From the beginning, Graham has said that he wants to name the baby Pirate. Now Pirate Hatch does have a nice ring to it, but would a child really forgive us for doing that to him?

Here are Graham's other name suggestions:

-Michael Jordan (his current favorite)

-John Stockton (probably Alex's favorite)

-Buckeyes (which he thought was really hilarious)

-Pig (which was Emma's favorite. Lately she says we should name him Hatch.)

At least Graham has been contributing his share of suggestions.

Autumn

We are really enjoying the onset of fall in Columbus. Here are a few pictures/videos to give a taste.

These pictures were taken at a little park close to the Scioto river, about 10 minutes from home. We live between two fairly decent sized rivers. The Scioto is larger and more scenic. If you look closely in the first, we caught a little friend (only in the camera, none of us were really in the mood to catch the slimy guy with our hands).








We've been having a lot of fun going to the "softball game," aka, the park next to the library which also has softball fields.










There are a few farms in the area that allow the public to come in late summer and early fall to pick fruit from their orchards. We went this weekend and picked a lot of apples and picked up some other produce at the same time. The best part was they encourage taste testing while you pick.








We also tried to grow some tomatoes and peppers in the little patio behind our townhome. Graham and Emma love to play out there, and we love that they can't open the back gate.




And of course, you can't talk about Columbus in the fall without also addressing football at OSU. I won free tickets to a game so Graham and I went to get a firsthand experience. Here are 105,000 people converging upon the OSU house of worship. The football was okay, but we went mostly to watch the marching band. Just kidding, but really they were pretty impressive (the band, not the football, they deserved to lose but won anyway; I might get expelled or tarred and feathered for saying that). Graham's favorite part was the stadium hot dogs (he had two).