Audrey's Blog

    Yes finally, almost a month after he is born we finally have a name for him. The story as to how he got his name will take a mini novel which someday I will write about. But for now, I am just happy to say he has a name and we can move on to sharing it with all our friends and family. That was a tough process, poor Mom and Dad. Though thank you to Di Thu for coming down this weekend to visit and pushing for my brother’s name. I love my brother regardless of what his name is, but I like Oliver and am learning to pronounce the word. Parents call him “Olie” for short which works as well, though I like saying his full name. Oliver came from the word olive which means “peace”. Dad wants to remember Ong Ngoai and choose an English name in honor of him, thus Oliver it is. His Vietnamese middle name “Nguyen-Khai” was also picked by Mom to honor ong ngoai too. She says she told Ong Ngoai about that name when he was ill in the hospital so that was picked out a while before he was born.

Dear all, I am thrilled to introduce to you my little brother, Oliver Nguyên-Khải Mesic. Little Oliver Khải was born on January 10th at 9:42 AM and weighed in at 8lbs 4oz and 21”. Although I didn't get to visit mom and little Oliver Khai in the hospital due to changes in visitation rules, I fell in love with my brother the first day I saw him. I am loving my new role as a big sister. I hope you’ll have a chance to meet my new baby brother sometime soon!

        My brother came home from the hospital without an official first name. Well you can say that he didn’t have a real name for the first few weeks of his life. Mom and Dad referred to him as “Khai”, “sweetie”, “baby”, and Grandpa’s favorite is little “Jimmy”. Though Mom and Dad are trying to figure out and finalize what he should be legally named, I refer to him as my brother. While everyone is patiently waiting for a name so we can announce my brother’s arrival, Dad has not been able to finalize one yet. He wants to find the perfect name and figures since he has to submit paperwork to get my brother’s name changed in his birth certificate anyways, he minus well take his time. Since we don’t have a name, not too many folks know about my brother being here. I will just have to be patient and wait a little longer.

        Mom managed to land herself in the ER this weekend after spending the past few days with me and my brother all on her own. I guess all those times I asked to be picked up and held is finally taking a toll on Mom. She is feeling miserable and may have to be in bed for a while. Poor Mommy, we are going to get some help so that Mom can stay off her feet and get some rest. In the meantime Dad is taking extra care of my brother and I. He is so small and tender, I try to be gentle and just touch him softly. I have a baby doll that I have been carrying around and it helps with how I should hold and be gentle with my brother. This is his first week home, isn’t he sweet?

Although I look forward to meeting my little brother and being a big sister. I will miss having my parents to myself. Mom talks about my little brother and sometimes I just get mixed feelings about the whole thing. Dad did a good job capturing those moments during our family photo shoot to document our family of "three" right before my brother's arrival.

It's 2010! My New Year started with a day at the park with Daddy. My little brother is coming in about a week so we want to go and document some pictures of our family of three before it becomes a family of four. I will have those pictures in a different blog entry. Thanks to aunt Thu we were able to have a few family shots. Once again Dad did a fantastic job capturing all the Kodak moments. I hope to blog more frequently this year.