Names

I remember years ago my parents telling me that my dad wanted to name me Rose after a small dinky place called Rose City. If you know what I am talking about you would know that you wouldn't want to be named after such a thing. If you don't know Rose City its a small little town in the middle of nowhere that has about 10 houses now, a little bar and a church. Nothing to get too excited about. A name is something you are given at birth and its yours to carry with you forever. For however long you are here celebrating life! So yes, it should have meaning.

When I was pregnant with Sweet Baby Girl we at first wanted to give her the name Hannah. Then Hannah Montana got so popular that I just couldn't have my child thinking that's how she got her name. I also had a daycare child say "We could call her Hannah Montana". Umm, no. So we came up with the name Maddison Marie. Marie is my middle name and also Danny's grandmother's first name. I have never seen Maddison spelled anywhere else with 2 D's but I wanted it to be a bit different. Now both the older girls where named by their birth mom. Jade Lynn got her middle name from her mom. That is her middle name as well. Then there is Abbygail Rose. Sadly I have no idea where or how she got her name. Hubby said he had no choice in the matter.

When I was little I was given the name Amy and I wanted my sister to be called Rainbow. Now can you imagine if my parents would have granted me my wish. Can you imagine what my sister would think of her name? I am sure she would have been teased. But hey I was little, what did I know about names? My mom wanted her to be an Abby. However dad said no. Its ok though because we have our Abby in the family now! My sister ended up with Molly as her name.

Now my husband ended up with his dad's name Danny. He also ended up with 2 middle names which he refused to do with Maddison. I wanted to name her after my great grandma Agnes. I was even willing to use Maddison Marie Agnes. He as 2 middle names and is surviving it well why wouldn't she? He refused. So we didn't do that. His name is Danny Jason Christopher.

My dad was adopted as some my readers probably know. Its not something we talk about alot but most do know it. Now when he was adopted his adoptive parents gave him the name Roger. His birth mom had named him Ralph. Now of course to me he was always dad and still is but I could not imagine his name being Ralph. He just doesn't seem to fit the name Ralph. I think Roger is a better fit.

So a name should have some meaning to it. It should be something you think your child will someday be thankful to go to school and tell everyone they meet what their name is.

I guess what I am getting at is what am I going to name my unborn baby? We had a boy name picked out just in case they were wrong when they said we were having a girl when we had Maddison. However my mother made fun of the name. We had Christian Harvey picked out. Harvey is my grandpa's name. Maybe it just struck her as not a name we'd pick. She said our child would be called Christ. So after all that I don't want to use that name this time around if it happens to be a boy. We have pondered the name Aiden, which is something I like but Hubby hates it. We have pondered the name Mason, Hubby hates it. I have told him we could just name a boy Danny since his name is Danny and so is his dads, he hates it. That's ok too because I don't like that idea either.

We seem to be able to come up with girl names a bit easier. We have pondered names from Allison, Keira, Alayna, Madeline, Marissa and a few others. I still want the middle name Agnes. He wants to use Lee which is his mom's name. Her first name is Lydia.

No matter what we find out at our ultrasound on Friday I want to have boy name and a girl name picked out. Just in case they tell us one thing and it turns out to be different.

So in the end if we end up with a boy we may have to call him Boy and if we end up with a girl we may have to call her Girl! I think this time around we won't have a final name until that little Baby Wynn is born.

Happy 2 years!

I got 3 pink roses for my Anniversary today from my Hubby. Now I am wondering if he just got 3 because that looks better than 2 or if he was thinking it was our 3rd anniversary!?! They were even delivered!

Sweet Baby Girl

Easter 2009 Almost 13 months old!

Easter 2008 6 Days old!

Sweet Baby Girl sure did change in a years time! She slept in the basket last year at Easter. This year we knew that wasn't going to happen. We also had to use a bigger basket!

Easter Fun

Pictures from our Trip!

We're home and thankful to be!

Well it was an interesting little trip! We arrived Thursday night at the hotel around 7:30pm. We all got ready to go swimming. We weren't as excited about the room we had compared to another hotel we've stayed at in the area. Just a bit smaller and no frig for drinks. Thankfully we did have our small cooler with. The pool area was also a bit smaller. The girls enjoyed swimming. Hubby went looking for snacks after swimming and didn't think we'd like the nachos or other appetizers from the hotel restaurant so he headed down the street to Denny's. We ended up not getting our snack until 9:45 so it was a late night.

Friday morning we had a great continental breakfast at the hotel. We went to Babys R Us and saw tons of cute things. The baby clothes there are to die for! However I wasn't able to buy the baby any since I don't know what it is. I did however pick up one little outfit for Sweet Baby Girl for next winter. I love clearance. Oh and a girls outfit just in case its another girl or my sister has a girl. Its jeans and a flowery top for $3.00! Can't turn down a deal like that! We decided to wait to purchase our double stroller like we had first planned to do. I just don't think I want to spend as much as they want so I will keep looking around to see if there is something I like better.

We headed out to find a hobby shop that Hubby wanted to find. However we took a wrong turn. We stopped at Starbucks and ended up in a small fender bender. My Hubby was driving and went to back out and hit an older lady driving a 2003 station wagon. He said he looked and didn't see anyone and is thinking because her car sits lower to the ground that is why he didn't see her. Everyone is ok! That is the main thing. Our wonderful 2008 van does however have a scratch on it. Hubby felt we got the worst of the damage.

After getting over the fender bender and being thankful it didn't happen on the road we headed to Chucky E Cheese. The girls loved it. They played games and ate more pizza than I expected.

We didn't get home until about 9:30pm Friday night and Sweet Baby Girl was so happy to be home and out of the van she scooted all around the living room. She scooted further than she ever has!

I will post pictures later. Just got a call my little brother M got in trouble. I must get details. Thankfully he called his other sister because I don't think I would be as nice about it as she is being. Kids these days!

What's in the suit case?

Now Rose is only 5 years old. Its funny to see how she packed her suitcase which she is really supposed to share with The Dancer. Since Rose is at preschool I felt it was important to see what she had packed. In the smallest pocket she had her PJ's, Swim Suit and the old smelly blanket (she so needs to get rid of this). Then in the biggest pocket she had the hugest stuffed bunny we own, her little container of Polly pockets, a pair of underwear, and of course the most important thing her purse! I don't even want to know what's in the purse (Ok I went and looked and its empty)! Now to a 5 year old it's probably very important to have your Polly pockets with you at a hotel. The empty purse most likely won't get her anywhere and it actually looks kind of like mine! So together we won't be going too far. Here is a picture of the inside of Rose's suit case. She is a sweetheart! She has her daddy rapped around her finger. He came home early today to arrange the little trip to a hotel. We did find a hotel for less than $100 with tax! So not too bad.

Thanks to TV advertisements we hear about Chucky Cheese all the time. I have been there enough to know I don't care for their pizza but the girls want to go so badly (when I worked as a Nanny we went there alot). They don't know it yet but we will take them there tomorrow for supper when we leave for home. We'll let them swim tonight when we get to the hotel around 8pm! It will be a late night but we can sleep in tomorrow. Ok maybe not we'll all be in one little room. It was a good idea though. We will bumb around the cities area tomorrow. My Husband of course has a fish shop he wants to visit (of course him main reason for the little trip).

Hopefully we can make it home Friday night in time for 8:30pm bedtimes. Saturday morning we have an Easter party to go to at Rose's school. Sunday we are headed to eat breakfast with Hubby's dad at his church and then to my grandparents for Easter Dinner. Its going to be a busy weekend.