We finally have agreed on a name!!!

Anyway onto the name for our baby girl. And coming to this name has been a very long, progressive and interesting journey. I have already had names that I liked for a girl and since my name is fairly unique I wanted to stay with something fairly unique. My initial name options were Alexia (Alex for short) and Kaylin....there was a third but cannot remember it at the moment. Preston almost immediately shot down Kaylin and I think the only reason he kept Alexia on the table was because he knew I really loved it. And of course it took him a while to pitch in a name that he liked. However, pulling teeth and constantly dodging his attempts of silly names such as 2 X 4 and beefowitz (thanks kyle), I got him to say the name April.

Now, I like the name April, even though it does remind me of the Teenage Muntant Ninja Turtles and it is the name of a month I didn't say no because it was the only name he had pittched, and doing so would shut him down from pitching others and thinking I was closed minded. Meanwhile, I kept looking at other girl names from infinate lists and lists of baby girl names.

There were days where I would come home with a post-it note with names for him to hear or sometimes I would just e-mail him. Names such as Kira, Alana, Isabella, Taylor... I can't remember them all now but you get the picture. So, when he didn't shoot down a name and showed some interest in it, such as Kira, I would spend prescious time on thinking of a good middle name for it. Middle names are important to me, I don't want any words made from initals and I want the whole name to have a good general flow when it is said alowd.

In keeping with my inital name I came up with Alexia Lorraine (which is a family name for him) and Kira Belle, but he didn't seem to like anything. After general frustration because I am 7 months now and she is coming soon he told me that he really didn't like Alexia and didn't like the flow of Kira Belle. I asked him why he didn't like Alexia; he basically didn't see his daughter when he heard that name, which is something that I can understand perfectly he needs to be happy with the name as well. At least now I can let go of thinking of middle names for it.

But then something unexpected happened, he told me he like the name Alana, a good name and something I really liked as well. With renewed hope I started to think of good middle names for Alana. I tried to incorperate family names:

Alana Lorraine
Alana Kay
etc...

All of which I liked but didn't have a flow I could get used to and Preston wasn't too happy with either. Finally we decided and agreed on a middle name of which I love personally and I think flows well with Alana

Alana Laine

It is a cute and fairly short name, and I can call her Ali because I think it is cute!!

So that is the general story of how we agreed on a name for our first baby, it of course is subject to change because when she comes out she may not look like an Alana but I don't see that actually happening, I really love that name!!