Due in December 2014 - Jan/Feb 2015

[lala22]

I love hearing names! My hubby and I enjoy unique names too. Our daughter's name is Diella. We actually found the name Dielle but hubby liked an a at the end and there you have it. She's Diella Emmary (Emma was my great grandmas name and I wanted an element of it in there somewhere). Boy names are SO much harder. For the longest time we were dead set on Leonidas (Leo for short) but it's just too big of a name for our measly last name- lol. Needles to say we are working on it. If we had another girl she probably would have been Ophelia Scarlet (Effie for short).

[crazycatcouple]

MumofSix, I love those names, especially Zachary :-) They are more traditional, but not in a super common way - very strong names!

Yahmama, I think Quinn would be cute for a boy or girl, but if you have your heart set on Natalie, you gotta go with that!

Lala, your hubby sounds like mine. He wanted our girl name to be girly and loved most names that ended with an a for that extra girly flare :-) I absolutely love Ophelia!! That may have to be added to my list, if you don't mind :-) Scarlet is another I love, but we have a friend who just used it for her daughter. If we had a girl, I'd love to try and find a name that could somehow honor my mother, but I just really don't care for her name, lol. It's Carol Bernice, which neither really do much for me. I've thought about doing Coral as a play on Carol, but I don't really love that either, and my hubby is pretty against naming a child a "thing". Oh, and Leonidas is pretty freaking cool! I can imagine he would grow up to be quite the ladies man :-) I agree though that boy names are really tough!!

[lala22]

crazycat- yeah he liked really romantic girly names. Luckily I did too- haha. What about Bernadette or Bernadine instead of Bernice? Bernie for short? Or you could use one of those variations as a middle name. Agh- names are hard...you want them meaningful and true to who you are as family but not so out of the norm that your kid hates you for it. I'm totally blanking on that boy name you mentioned crazycat but I too have a hard time with the word tit coming to mind- but if you start feeling uneasy perhaps you could use as the mn? You could use Bruce as a first or Bryce or another variation as a take on it. Just shots in the dark. Lol

[lala22]

And I like Quinn a lot but for me it's more feminine sounding. I thought about it for our first daughter.

[LilithWiser1979]

Haha, Yahmama, I never worry about what other people are naming their kids around me. If I want it, I'm taking it!

Having said that, I'm an insane person who blacklists all baby names on the Social Security's top 100 baby names for the past 5 years. I have a top 5 name for the year I was born and I HATE it!

I haven't really bought much for my DD, except for an awesome wrap and a diaper bag (black backpack type that DH won't complain about carrying.) DH and I haven't even started the name discussion yet, but I'm dreading it. We always fight until the baby's born, and his choices suck.

I like Tierra. We're half Latino, and I'm full hippie, so having a Spanish name that means "earth" and isn't common sounded crazy cool to me! I also like Rhiannon, Leiana, Illari, and Kaya.
I also like Elysia for a middle name. It's a derivative of the Elysian fields that are part of the afterlife in Roman Mythology. If I pair Elysia as a middle name with Tierra, her name would literally be "heaven and earth," albeit a pagan heaven, and a hispanic earth

He likes a lot of hispanic names that sound great in Spanish, but lame in English. I'm hoping he'll give in and let me name her, but I also feel kind of bad because I named the boys.

[lala22]

What are your boy names Lilith? I love all of those girl names!

[angielorna]

we haven't discussed names. We talked about girl names BEFORE we got preggo. I said I liked Charlie for a girl or boy -- he thought that was funny. Short for Charlotte. He likes Catherine, but that's my bosses name...um, that would be weird. I tried to throw in a few boys names and he wouldn't hear of it because we were "thinking positive" before conception (lol).

DS1 is Alexander Maurice Nicolaas. I wanted Alexander for my great-grandfather (and bc I like the name), DH wanted it for Alexander the Great (history buff). Middles names are my father and his - in alphabetical order to avoid whining from my dad.

DS2 is Thomas Theodore Roland. I've always loved Thomas but DH hated it. We were due in October and I thought he was going to born 10/10/10 and since DH is a computer geek, he wanted to find out if that meant anything in binary. he just kept adding 1010 until it came up to a letter -- which was T. He then agreed because of Thomas Payne (I believe). Theodore is a masculine version of his mother's name (Theadora) and Roland is my grandfather.

We are running out of male family names to use!!!

For a girl, besides Charlotte, I like Natalie, Annalise, Anita, Lorna .... lots to choose from. I like Delilah (but we have a D last name and I refuse to name our child a D name -- DD is just bad for initials IMO). If I'd go with D, I'd probably name my next boy Dante. I love that name!

Anyway, had my first prenatal appointment today. All seemed to go well. She did not try to find the HB with the Doppler (good plan, since I can't find it with mine yet, lol). I have to figure something out to get my weight under control. I've gained back almost all the weight I lost from dieting and then LE. So on Monday I will start making better choices. Fruit, veggies, whole grains....you know, all the boring stuff.

Angie

[angielorna]

as a random observation -- I haven't been paying attention to my ticker! Almost 25% complete. Awesome! Almost 1/4th of the way there :P

Angie

[LilithWiser1979]

I didn't pick out any boy names this time around, since I knew she was a girl from so early on. The leftover names from the boys were Tiernan, Kieran, Valkyr (Val for short,) Aurelio, Locke, and a few others Ive forgotten.

[lala22]

Lilith- I meant what are you current boy's names:-)