With the pressure mounting we have finally decided on a name! If you don't decide before you leave the hospital they told me you will get buried in the paperwork that normally the hospital fills out. After today I can attest that playing the name game is not as enjoyable after the birth. The pressure really builds and you start to make spreadsheets that cross-correlate first and middle names to come up with the perfect name. You write each name out and compare how they look and sound. And then you try to come up with all the reasons that it isn't a good name. It really is horribly stressful. And we had a name by the way. We had a name that we liked and that Chrystal had picked out like 20 years ago. But when we met baby sister the name just did not seem to fit. We still really like that name, but we know now her name fits her. And it's important for a name to fit. After all people change their names if they don't fit when they become adults...I wonder how their parents feel about that?
The process was also funny as we got the whole of friends and family providing recommendations. Here is our list of unsolicited suggestions. ;-)
Serious Suggestions
Eden
Ava
Aria
Jo
Abigail
Kaitlyn
Brenda
Beatrice
Lindsay
Lisa
Cassandra
Sister
Pauline
Champagne
Cinderella
Maybe? Serious Suggestions
Sweet Pea
Olive Oyl
Wimpy
Jonne Beach (from uncle Jonathon Beach Mathis)
Dorkus (Biblical apparently)
Boo (like on Monsters, Inc.)
Scratches (Brody's personal favorite)
The "Rhyming Names"
Marmaderm Sturm (my favorite submitted by Papa Joe)
Burn Sturm
Sharlum Sturm
Rowandurm Sturm
Can y'all tell I'm stalling...oh the anticipation!
Mianna Leta Marie SturmMianna - (me-ah-naa) We really felt like she looked like a Mia and fell in love with Mianna. There are a few meanings here. We really wanted to have her name incorporate Great Grandma's name Anna Maria. Mia is short for Maria so we switched them and created Mianna. In my previous post I asked "What's in a name?" and we liked the meanings of this name. Mia being short for Maria is a Hebrew name meaning "Wished for Child" and Anna is a Hebrew name meaning "Grace of God". We love that Mianna is our Wished for Child provided by the Grace of God.
Leta - (lee-taa) Leta Rue was Chrystal's other grandma. She was a wonderful woman. Leta is a Latin name meaning "Glad".
Marie - (ma-rie) Marie is Chrystal's middle name and is also a derivative of Maria. Again a Hebrew name meaning "Wished for Child"
Thank you all for your well wishes, kind comments, and funny responses. We feel very well loved.
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