we named our son Markus Ezekiel and his nickname is VierteMarkus – I like the name, also my team lead when I went to Germany for World Youth Day was named “markus”. It’s masculine. Ezekiel – My husband wanted something biblical and it means “God will strengthen” now his nickname has a longer story – Viertehis dad’s name has III and my inlaws specially the lolo wanted na maging IV when he learned that we we’re having a boy. I strongly disagreed to have my baby’s name after his dad and buti nalang my husband didn’t also want our son to be carrying his name so we both agreed to instead give our son a nickname na “fourth” but we wanted na ibang language but we also considered giving him “quatro” as the nickname. and so I asked around PMN for other dialects/language that would mean fourth and got “Vierte” from the Deutsch language.

Vierte sleeps beside me since we got home. He has a crib which was inherited from my cousins and a new one as well a gift he got when he was baptized. When Coy was home for the holidays he insisted that Vierte sleeps on his crib and not with us but I refused too since I can’t sleep well when he’s on the crib. I tend to wake-up every five minutes to check on him and when its feeding time i would have to get up and get him. With him sleeping beside me feeding time is easy, I just need to give him his “nanan” right there and there both of us lying in bed, I get better sleep but not that long deep sleep I wish I could have. I haven’t notice though if he’s now able to sleep through the night as when I sense him moving I either give him a hug or feed him. It would be ideal if he sleeps in his crib though just so he won’t …