Caeden is home now

As soon as the boys saw their new brother they couldn't wait to hold him. We knew that Tre would be very sweet and happy since he was when Beckham was born, but we didn't expect Bex to be quite so gentle and excited. Even today, three days later he says, "baby, baby, baby!" whenever he sees him as he jumps for joy.



My parents flew in to have some dental work done and see the new baby. It was great to have them here.


Tre loves to help out as much as he can with the baby.


Here is a pic from a couple of weeks ago. You may remember how we have struggled for weeks with him to go into his new bed when we took him out of his crib after falling out onto his head a few times. Every night he would cry forever. No, he is not the kind of kid to learn and give up, very dedicated. I hope he channels that dedication correctly later in life. Anyway, this is a picture (the worst it ever got so we had to take a picture) of what we find when he finally falls to sleep. About 2 weeks ago I came up with an idea. He has been doing a lot more if...then type of things. So I decided to try telling him that if he stays in his bed, I will leave the door cracked open. It worked! He stays in his bed most nights and falls asleep so that we don't have to return to this anymore...

Caeden Pond Calderwood

After 2 contractions and six pushes Caeden slipped into this world at 7:21 pm weighing in at 6 pounds 7 ounces. Marisa went to her Dr. appointment this morning and was told to go to the hospital and have her water broken. Once there and settled in she had her water broken and the contractions slowly built up to a regular pace. She had an epidural and everything went great.





More dark hair than either of the other babies.




Letting the world know that he is baby boy number three!

No baby yet...

Marisa is very ready to have the baby. She is tired of being sick, having a sprained ankle, no comfortable position to be in, constant hard contractions that never get regular enough to be labor, etc, etc. She is ready to trade all of that for a new baby. We are pretty set on the name Kaeden Pond Calderwood. We haven't decided on spelling so this is how I want to spell it. We like the name Dawson also, but I think Kaeden has edged it out. I definitely like the ae since the origin of the name is Gaelic and it means "spirit of battle" or "companion." And we wanted to give our third son a heritage name as well. Tre's middle name is Ben. That is Hebrew for "son of" and it is also the middle name of my father and his grandfather. I thought it would be cool to continue that on another generation especially as a middle name...Trevor - son of - Calderwood. Calderwood is a Scottish name (If eets not scoht-eesh, eets crrrap!). Beckham's middle name is Scott. We really like mono-syllable middle names with the long last name and two syllable first names. Finding a name for baby boy number three was very hard. We loved the originality and sound of Beckham so much it was hard to follow it up. If Kaeden/Caeden sticks then it already has its male heritage name so we chose Marisa's maiden name as his one syllable middle name. So much stress for a name, and as Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" I guess if the Rose had a name that rhymed with more pleasant words than dose and foes, the poems would more often refer to the flower than its color...