Our Little Man, Vlad

Thanks to our creative UF Nav students, Baby Nugent has a temporary name. It began during our Martin Luther King weekend trip to North Carolina. Everyone wanted to know what we planned to name our son, and then proceeded to start making suggestions (of course!). Eventually, "Vladimir the Impaler" was thrown into the mix. And for some reason, it stuck! Now Ben and I both refer to our son as "Vlad," as do the students. It makes me smile when we are praying with them, and a student prays for Vlad in Russia. It does make him seem much more like a real little boy, then just calling him "Baby Nugent." The problem will be when we have to pick an actual name... We'll be so used to Vlad by then!

Oh, and another process update: This Wednesday, our social worker will make her first visit to our home. This will be our second home study meeting, but the first one on our turf. She said it should last about an hour and a half. We're not exactly sure what we'll be talking about, but we're not too nervous. We met her a couple weeks ago during our first meeting in Orlando, and we really like her. She was even involved with The Navs when she was a student at Auburn: what a small world! We look forward to letting you know how it goes.