Thursday, September 20, 2012
Help, I am drowning...
There are boxes everywhere in my house. E.v.e.r.y.w.h.e.r.e. The picture below is from a corner in our bedroom. If you look hard enough you can see that the closet is even full of boxes. Boxes even took over Bryce's playroom!
Saturday, September 15, 2012
What's in a name?
First let me say that I am terrible at keeping up with this blog... I need and want to get better!
What's in a name?
Naming our little girl has been so hard for me. My poor husband just wants to know what to call her and I have been dragging my feet. It was so much easier with Bryce. Alexander was supposed to have been my middle name if I had been a boy. Will and I both loved the name but could never agree on a nick name. I liked Alex and he did not and he liked Lex and considering how much we were into Smallville at the time, it reminded me of Lex Luthor. So Alexander became a middle name.
As we were driving down to Oak Island for the annual Mewborn beach vacation, we came across a neighborhood called Rice Plantation. Will looked at me from the passanger seat and said, "What about Rice?" My response, "What about Bryce?" We knew right then and there that our son had a name, Bryce Alexander Boone. Will of course fought me on the spelling, he wanted an "I" instead of an "Y" and thankfully I won- Bryce you can thank me when you get older.
In 2007, before we knew if it was going to be a girl or boy, we had been thinking of names. Of course we had a girl name that we loved, Madison Grey. However, my sister-in-law beat us to the punch and had a girl first and since she had already claimed that name a year before, we graciously bowed down and let her name her daughter Madison, Maddie for short. I am just kidding, we had nothing to do with it but my neice is the perfect Madison.
This time around, I absolutely refused to think of names because I knew I would jinx us. However, 2 months later, I still just don't know! Of course I knew of a second boy name that I loved, Timothy Gordon, mine and Will's middle names combined. I think I panicked when the sonographer annouced that the baby was a girl. I was so scared when we were pregnant with Bryce, I had always been around girls and girl toys and bows my whole life. Now I had to learn how to be a mom who played with trains and trucks and cars. Not to mention, changing a boy diaper can be intimidating.
I still cannot get over the fact that we get to have pink in the house! Finally, some feminimity!
Anyways, back to her name. I love my daughter and love feeling her grow everyday inside me. I get her for nine months all by myself! What a blessing it is to be allowed such a thing. I cannot blame Will for wanting to give her a name. I feel like boys have such strong names, I wanted to make sure to give her something strong. I also wanted a unique name. Picking out the name of your child that he or she will have for the rest of their life is a huge burden! I know we grow up with our names and we don't know anything different but that still does not stop us from liking or disliking it.
I have spent so much time stressing over her name. My baby name book was packed away and I cannot locate it and searching online is so much harder for some reason. However, I have searched online. I even found an inspiration name page that included Disney Princesses but that list was a complete flop. I also have a list of names that I have made on my phone. There were three names that we loved but never could find a good arrangement for them. My husband finally gave me an ultimatum, I was not allowed to purchase anything for our little girl until she had a name (luckily at this point I had already purchased the crib).
I am happy to say I purchased the cutest pair of pink shoes and white tights with frills on the bottom for her the other day because we do have a name! I am absolutely refusing to announce it just yet. Sorry family members but I may just make you wait till the day she is born. We have told Bryce his sister's name but he gets it confused so don't even both trying to pry it out of him!
The bottom line is, we do have a name for her, I think...
What's in a name?
Naming our little girl has been so hard for me. My poor husband just wants to know what to call her and I have been dragging my feet. It was so much easier with Bryce. Alexander was supposed to have been my middle name if I had been a boy. Will and I both loved the name but could never agree on a nick name. I liked Alex and he did not and he liked Lex and considering how much we were into Smallville at the time, it reminded me of Lex Luthor. So Alexander became a middle name.
As we were driving down to Oak Island for the annual Mewborn beach vacation, we came across a neighborhood called Rice Plantation. Will looked at me from the passanger seat and said, "What about Rice?" My response, "What about Bryce?" We knew right then and there that our son had a name, Bryce Alexander Boone. Will of course fought me on the spelling, he wanted an "I" instead of an "Y" and thankfully I won- Bryce you can thank me when you get older.
In 2007, before we knew if it was going to be a girl or boy, we had been thinking of names. Of course we had a girl name that we loved, Madison Grey. However, my sister-in-law beat us to the punch and had a girl first and since she had already claimed that name a year before, we graciously bowed down and let her name her daughter Madison, Maddie for short. I am just kidding, we had nothing to do with it but my neice is the perfect Madison.
This time around, I absolutely refused to think of names because I knew I would jinx us. However, 2 months later, I still just don't know! Of course I knew of a second boy name that I loved, Timothy Gordon, mine and Will's middle names combined. I think I panicked when the sonographer annouced that the baby was a girl. I was so scared when we were pregnant with Bryce, I had always been around girls and girl toys and bows my whole life. Now I had to learn how to be a mom who played with trains and trucks and cars. Not to mention, changing a boy diaper can be intimidating.
I still cannot get over the fact that we get to have pink in the house! Finally, some feminimity!
Anyways, back to her name. I love my daughter and love feeling her grow everyday inside me. I get her for nine months all by myself! What a blessing it is to be allowed such a thing. I cannot blame Will for wanting to give her a name. I feel like boys have such strong names, I wanted to make sure to give her something strong. I also wanted a unique name. Picking out the name of your child that he or she will have for the rest of their life is a huge burden! I know we grow up with our names and we don't know anything different but that still does not stop us from liking or disliking it.
I have spent so much time stressing over her name. My baby name book was packed away and I cannot locate it and searching online is so much harder for some reason. However, I have searched online. I even found an inspiration name page that included Disney Princesses but that list was a complete flop. I also have a list of names that I have made on my phone. There were three names that we loved but never could find a good arrangement for them. My husband finally gave me an ultimatum, I was not allowed to purchase anything for our little girl until she had a name (luckily at this point I had already purchased the crib).
I am happy to say I purchased the cutest pair of pink shoes and white tights with frills on the bottom for her the other day because we do have a name! I am absolutely refusing to announce it just yet. Sorry family members but I may just make you wait till the day she is born. We have told Bryce his sister's name but he gets it confused so don't even both trying to pry it out of him!
The bottom line is, we do have a name for her, I think...
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