His Room

The guest room is now officially a nursery!  We purchased the crib and dresser when we were expecting Owen, and it was one of the very few items we kept in the house, intending at some point to give it away.  The dresser had been in the basement and the convertible crib was serving as the bed in the guest room since we moved back.

Shockingly, after moving across the country, I located 6 of the 8 supplied fasteners to assemble the bed back into a crib! The remaining two were standard 1/4-20 screws, so a quick trip to Lowe's solved that issue.

I put up a new curtain rod and some darkening navy curtains to match and help block light.  We reused some stuff from Owen and Molly's nursery rooms as well.  The quilt rack holder that Ken Wolfskill gave me before we had Owen, and a shelf to put over the changing table.  I painted them to match the curtains so it all works.  Allison found a lamp shade and base at Pottery barn outlet, and a matching wall art set from home-goods with the Alligator theme from the bedding we built the room around.

Molly has had a pink version of this sea pony, and this was a gift that she really wanted to give her little brother... the boy version though.

One very excited little sister....

It's December 4th as I'm writing this post, and we really waited until the last minute to pull this all together... I think we're both playing equal nesting roles trying to get everything organized before the boy arrives.

The significance of a name....

For most of the pregnancy, we didn't really even talk about names.  Mostly just the reality of coming to grips with the fact that "this is actually happening."   But at the end of the day, we've created a pattern for our kids names and we decided to continue following this pattern.

Finn Edwin Horvath

1. The first names are Irish in origin.  Partly because of my maternal extended family history, and partly because we just like the Irish names.  Finn is a name with enormous energy and charm, that of the greatest hero of Irish mythology, Finn MacCool (aka Fionn mac Cuumhaill), an intrepid warrior with mystical supernatural powers, noted as well for his wisdom and generosity.

2. The middle name will be from Allison's Family.  For Owen, we chose to use Donald Ney, who was Allison's Mom's Father.  Molly has the abbreviated middle name of Lin, after Allison's mom, Linda.   Finn has the middle name of Allison's Dad's father, Edwin Stapler.

3. And of course, the last name will carry my family name of Horvath.  The surname Horvath is a common Hungarian, partly Jewish name for a Croat, derived from the Hungarian word Horvath. They were Slavonic people who settled in what had been the Roman province of Pannonia in the 7th century AD, and who were therefore the southern neighbors of the Magyars when they settled in what is now Hungary in the 10th century.