Showing posts with label Baby naming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baby naming. Show all posts
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Sometimes I'm crafty
The other day I went to Micheal's and bought some wood letters that spell out our baby's name and some acrylic paint. I'm still not sure what I'm going to do with them, whether I'm going to put them on ribbon and hang them on the wall or just stand them on one of the floating shelves we have but I LOVE how they came out and wanted to show them off! We still aren't telling anyone the name but obviously there is a Y and an M!
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Three in one day
Ok, I've had time to reflect a little bit on my day.
1) Hopefully my brainfart doesn't mess up my 1 hour glucose screening results, they will let me know how it went in the next day or two. Good news: they think the baby is head down now!
2) I'm very upset about the whole baby name thing but I have no one to blame or be mad at. I'm disappointed and sad that we can't use the name anymore. Some might say to go ahead and use it but this situation is different. Probably the most significant reason is the fact that my cousin's wife and I used to be best friends. We met in 9th grade and were the best of friends for about 10 years. We had our ups and downs but we ended up growing apart and had a big falling out about 2 years ago. Shortly after our falling out she started dating my cousin. My family is big, 21 grandchildren with all but 2 living in Syracuse, but we see each other a lot. They had a quick-ish relationship and got engaged about 2 months after Bill and I did and got married this past July. Things are awkward to say the least between us. She has not earned many brownie points with my family and not many of us like her. I can't use the same name as them. I'd feel like I was trying to steal their thunder or something.
I know that we will find another name and that the important thing is that our baby is healthy. He will be our son regardless of what name we choose. We'll end up liking the name we choose better because it will be his name.
I know all this but it just hurts so bad. She and I have a major history of her screwing me over and I feel like she did it again, even though she doesn't know it.
I told my sister and my parents about this and that's it. No one else will know. I don't want to make their exciting news about me and I don't want to give her the satisfaction of knowing that she got to me again.
It's time to move on and go back to the drawing board.
Our baby is no longer, Owen.
1) Hopefully my brainfart doesn't mess up my 1 hour glucose screening results, they will let me know how it went in the next day or two. Good news: they think the baby is head down now!
2) I'm very upset about the whole baby name thing but I have no one to blame or be mad at. I'm disappointed and sad that we can't use the name anymore. Some might say to go ahead and use it but this situation is different. Probably the most significant reason is the fact that my cousin's wife and I used to be best friends. We met in 9th grade and were the best of friends for about 10 years. We had our ups and downs but we ended up growing apart and had a big falling out about 2 years ago. Shortly after our falling out she started dating my cousin. My family is big, 21 grandchildren with all but 2 living in Syracuse, but we see each other a lot. They had a quick-ish relationship and got engaged about 2 months after Bill and I did and got married this past July. Things are awkward to say the least between us. She has not earned many brownie points with my family and not many of us like her. I can't use the same name as them. I'd feel like I was trying to steal their thunder or something.
I know that we will find another name and that the important thing is that our baby is healthy. He will be our son regardless of what name we choose. We'll end up liking the name we choose better because it will be his name.
I know all this but it just hurts so bad. She and I have a major history of her screwing me over and I feel like she did it again, even though she doesn't know it.
I told my sister and my parents about this and that's it. No one else will know. I don't want to make their exciting news about me and I don't want to give her the satisfaction of knowing that she got to me again.
It's time to move on and go back to the drawing board.
Our baby is no longer, Owen.
Baby Name
My cousin Casey and his wife had their baby boy today. I'm so happy for my cousin. They used our baby name. They didn't know we had decided on it and we don't own it. I'm devastated anyway.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Secrets, secrets are no fun...
Bill and I decided before we even picked a name that we were going to keep it a secret. We wanted to make sure that the name we picked was the one we really loved and needed to sit on it for a while to make sure. We also didn't want the comments that our families are known to make, anything from "oh I hate that name" to "I knew someone with that name who was a _____" to "oh that's a great name but did you think of _____? That one is so much better." My poor cousin and his wife went through all of that and more while expecting their first child. Finally they just closed their mouths and announced their final decision once Henry David was born.
We love the name we picked and aren't keeping it a secret because it's strange or anything, it's a top 100 name, we just don't want the comments. The thing I'm struggling with though, is now that we've picked our name, I like to talk to him and call him by name. When he kicks really hard I find myself saying, "ouch _____ that hurt!" I like to call him by a human name, not just the baby. But I know myself and if I get too used to it, I'll slip up in front of other people and my family and friends just suck at keeping secrets.
So for now, we just tell people that we haven't decided yet. No one has really pushed it, probably because we just found out we are having a boy 2 weeks ago. I'm sure once my due date starts getting closer, we'll have to come up with a better line. I plan on denying that we have a name for as long as possible, I hate lying but if people know we have a name, they will push so hard and I know I'll break at some point!
We love the name we picked and aren't keeping it a secret because it's strange or anything, it's a top 100 name, we just don't want the comments. The thing I'm struggling with though, is now that we've picked our name, I like to talk to him and call him by name. When he kicks really hard I find myself saying, "ouch _____ that hurt!" I like to call him by a human name, not just the baby. But I know myself and if I get too used to it, I'll slip up in front of other people and my family and friends just suck at keeping secrets.
So for now, we just tell people that we haven't decided yet. No one has really pushed it, probably because we just found out we are having a boy 2 weeks ago. I'm sure once my due date starts getting closer, we'll have to come up with a better line. I plan on denying that we have a name for as long as possible, I hate lying but if people know we have a name, they will push so hard and I know I'll break at some point!
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