The Name Game

Now that we know the new baby is a girl, the next question everyone asks is, "What are you going to name her?"  Well, we don't know quite yet.  I have learned that I have an affinity for names that end in "a", so that's where we've been doing most of our speculating, although I'm not totally hung up on that.  I like Marissa or Jenna.  Ry won't let me use Samantha or Cassandra - girls he knew and didn't like.  

It would have been easy if it was a boy.  I was gonna name him Joshua Ryan, and Ry was gonna like it.  See how lovely that would have been?  Why is it harder to name a girl?  I've been joking that we would name her Gertrude, Helga or Bertha, but Becca couldn't figure out why that was funny.  She likes those names. (No offense to those whose gma's bear those lovely names)

The other thing is that I want to use the middle name Jo, if I can.  Becca's name was supposed to be Rebecca Jo, but a 4 a.m. conversation in the hospital resulted in Rebecca Sarah, mostly because Ry was too groggy for me to read.  I learned only days later that he would have been fine with Jo, but, alas, it was too late.  Oh well, we love the name Sarah, and since Brandt married cool aunt Sarah, Becca has decided that she loves her name, and won't let me change it, thank you very much.  

So this time I kinda want to have a name picked out while we are both coherent.  Marissa Jo sounds okay.  Jenna Jo sounds like a hillbilly name.  Last night we joked that we should name her Chiquita Banana.  There's two names that end in "a".  Or we could name her Alaska.  Ry said, "Yeah, that would be great.  When she starts school, the roll will read 'Fairbanks, Alaska."  We giggled for a long time over that one.  Needless to say, we don't want our kid suing for emancipation when she is 6 years old.  So, suggestions are welcome.  This could go on for a while...  :)