Okay, everybody is wondering about the name. We are most likely to name her Ava. Before we got the picture, Brian and I never could nail it down. He didn't show too much enthusiasm over any of the ones on our list, so I wasn't sure for a long time what'd it be. I always like Ava the best. So when we got the picture and new documents I said that we need to decide on the name, and he told me that he likes Ava. Ava means, "like a bird", so that's pretty fitting, huh? So, unless we have a change of mind, which I doubt, that's what it will be. Sorry Jennifer. But you know Brian, he likes to keep his options open. So you never know, you never know. There is a document that has to be sent back out in in a couple of days and on it we have to write her American name. So soon it will be official and I'll let you know for sure.
I also wanted to explain the Vietnamese name. We read about this the other night b/c we didn't understand it at first. The first name, Nguyen, is actually the family name. And over 40% of the Vietnamese population have Nguyen as their family name (Interesting. Just one big happy family?). Her middle name, Thi, means "Poem", but this also is a VERY common middle name. It also distinguishes the gender of the baby. The last name, Hoa (pronounced Hwa), is her given name. It means "flower". (Brian bought her a pink fuzzy pj outfit that has "flower" written across it. So cute). So we may use Hoa as a second middle name. Right now we are thinking about Ava Lynn Hoa Dempsey. This full name would be on all her legal documents but for everyday use, school and such, she would just use Ava Lynn Dempsey. But as she gets older, if she wanted to use her Vietnamese name, there would be less difficulty since it would already be on her passport, and other legal documents. So that's the story there. Like I said, nothing is certain yet, but we're pretty sure. Clear as mud?
4 comments:
That's very clear to me, and it all sounds very well thought through and absolutely appropriate. I don't know why I had not thought about Lynn, it's a perfect fit. I think the last name you had talked about was Ava, but for some reason I had kind of forgotten about it. It's really pretty, and I think it suits her. I was really wondering what you were going to settle on, so I'm glad to know.
Gotta get to bed. Thinking of you, and praying for little Ava.
Love,
Mom
Beautiful! I love it!!
Jen
So fun!! Ava is precious and I think she looks like an Ava!! And yes, I need to know specific initials as soon as possible!! I'm just itching to monogram stuff. Hey, can my sister sign up to visit your blog? How does that work?
Ashlie,
Your sister is absolutely welcome to visit. She just needs to go to the blog and enter her email address as her user id and then make a password. I believe that's all there is to it. If she already has a google password from doing something else she will use that one. It will be attached to her email address. does that make sense?
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