Bumble Bean Fort... Kind of an Odd Name for a 1st Grader

It's funny how nicknames evolve... one of my girlfriends started calling her baby "monkey bean" and I really liked it and so I started thinking about what I would call our baby between the time that I found out I was pregnant and we find out the sex... somehow "bumble bean" stuck. The first time you see a baby on an ultrasound (about 6 weeks) they are just about the shape and size of a kidney bean with a tiny little heartbeat. So the bean makes sense, but what about the "bumble"

When we were trying to concieve, I would often joke during the two week wait that I was trying to stay "As busy as a bee"...

When I announced I was pregnant I used this ecard (BFP stands for Big Fat Positive), here's a list of all the pregnancy acronyms... http://www.twoweekwait.com/ (third one down)

But where it really comes from is my last ballet performance. I had this wacky director who didn't believe in doing The Nutcracker (which is crazy) and so she created her own holiday show. I was cast as The Bumble Bee and danced to "Flight of the Bumble Bee"... it was the hardest dance I've ever done, but also the one I'm the most proud of. I had a black tutu and a little stinger and I was a fierce bumble bee!

Now I promise we are not going to name the baby "Bumble Bean", but I'm afraid I've started something that I cannot stop. I've already received recommendations of doing the nursery bumble bee themed

and recieved our first onesie, which says "Bee Happy" with a cute little bee.

I just pray this doesn't turn into the pig fiasco of college. By the time I graduated college, I think I had 50 stuffed, porcelin, or otherwise pigs! All because I thought it would be cute to decorate my dorm room with the Miss Piggy Victoria Secret poster and a string of pig christmas lights!

But until August, our baby is named Bumble Bean.