I'll call him my Superbowl Baby!

Almost four years ago (it will be in March) we found out we were going to have a boy!  This adorable creature pictured above.  I will be honest.  I was hoping for a girl, so I would have two boys and two girls.  I had taken my three kids with me to the appointment.  Before the doctor told us it was a boy, Ethan was saying, "It's a boy!  It's a boy!"  The doctor commented that Ethan knew more than he did.  In the end, Ethan was right.  We were going to have a boy.

Ethan knew in that instant the boy's name needed to be Hawk!  I knew in that instant that his name would NOT be hawk.  Hawk?  Really?  No offense to anybody, but it just seemed a little weird to be named after a bird.  But, Ethan wouldn't let it go and was telling everybody that was going to be his name.

Two weeks after this doctor appointment, we lost our beautiful Ethan to an Arterio Venous Malformation. This was very sudden and very difficult for us, obviously.  We knew not too long after that we MUST name this child Hawk.  But, I still couldn't do it.  I don't know why, but kept trying to think of names that would go with Hawk and not have it be the first name.

Ethan LOVED football.  It was a new obsession for our little guy just the previous season.  He took a special liking to the New England Patriots.  He is actually buried in a Sunday suit with a New England Patriots hat and a Patriots tie.  Marcus and Parker wore matching Patriot ties to the funeral.  We also decorated for his funeral in red, white and blue.

In deciding a name for our new baby that was still not to be born for three more months, we kept trying to come up with a name that meant "football."  We even looked into other languages to see if football would some how fit, and he could be named football hawk???  (As a side note, Madilyn thought his name should be Sunshine).  We thought Ethan should have a large part in naming this child.

We finally decided that Ethan's favorite team was the Patriots, and his best friend's name was Brady.  With Tom Brady as the Patriots quarterback, and sharing a name with his best friend, we decided.  Our little guy was to be named BRADY HAWK.

We love that the Superbowl is the Patriots and the Seahawks!  It just seems to fit our little guy!!

Brady Hawk