Sunday, May 15, 2011

What's in a name?

I love having a three year old and their very good imagination around! Before we knew we were having a little girl we would ask Joel what our baby was doing to be. Every time he said a girl (sometimes it comes out as a grill). Then we would ask him what we should name the baby. Depending on the day his answer would be either Snakey or Wormy. We always laughed and thought it was hilarious! So sure enough -- he was right on one account! We're having a girl. However, we are not naming her Snakey or Wormy. We were shopping for little girl things after we found out and I told Joel that we need to decide on a name for our baby girl. He replied with (in his most know it all voice) "Mom, we dooo. It's Snakey!" I came home and told Mike that we needed to decide on a name so we could get Joel to think of a different name other than Wormy or Snakey. We have had a name that we have liked for over a year now, but were hesitant because Mike's cousin used it a few months ago, but after a LOT of looking nothing else seemed right so we decided to go with it (at least for the time being with the prerogative to change our minds). So now we have Joel saying that we are having baby Lilah. Which in my opinion, is a much better name than Snakey or Wormy!!! Even though at first he was very opposed to our choice in names and thought his was much better. And we still have a lot of fun hunting for all these cute baby girl things that I can actually look at now! Its so fun!

7 comments:

Chelle said...

Oh come on, Snakey is an awesome name! You guys need to be more open-minded. :) j/k, Lilah is a very beautiful name, and I'm glad he's accepted that.

Bradbury Bunch said...

I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE the name Lilah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I am SO excited for her arrival to get here!! :)

And SO excited to hear more stories about big brother luvin' too!! Definitely something they'll laugh at when their older! XOXO

Gurr Family said...

I am excited for you. And the name Lilah is adorable.

Allison said...

Copy cat. JUST KIDDING. Seriously though, had you had a girl first and named her Lilah, our Lyla, would still be Lyla. There is just something special about that feeling when you just know a name is right :).

Poor snakey. Our Lyla was named Nemo until she was born.

Hope everything is going great!! We're super excited to welcome her to the world :).

*LaUrA* said...

Nu uh!!! that is my top baby girl name right now...though I just spell it Lila. But I LOVE IT!!! Excellent choice. I think it is so feminine and pretty. So excited for you!!

Angela said...

I don't know. Snakey and Wormy are both unique. She would never meet another girl with her name. She would also never find a little license plate or key chain with her name on it as well :) Lilah is very pretty. Good choice.

Lisa said...

Beautiful name. And what a cute kid! Garrett was buckethead until he was born...