The Peanut

As I start this ninth and last month of pregnancy, I thought about how the Peanut will soon be referred to by her name, and not as the Peanut.  It makes me a little sad that we are already closing one chapter of her life and opening a new chapter.  I don't think I've told the story of how Peanut got her in utero name.  Back in December, BA and I came home from the doctor with some life-altering news.  I was pregnant and I was 9 weeks along.  We had both seen the evidence on the ultrasound, there was a tiny baby in there.  As we sat on the couch that evening chatting about how unbelievable this was, BA looked at my belly and said, "where's that little Peanut?"  I pointed at the center of my flat stomach, and he leaned down and kissed it.  From then on, our baby was known as the little Peanut.  And even though she will soon have a more "human" name, she will always be my little Peanut and hopefully we'll still call her that as a nick-name.