Names

Well, our little girl will be names Eden Cale.

We wanted something slightly biblical (but not an 'out there' blatantly biblical one) to honor DF's Christianity, so we went with Eden - as in: Garden of Eden... Meaning: Pleasant

It's also a name I've loved for a long time.

Cale, is a name that I shortened to suit my needs lol, it's derived from 'Callie'... But 'Cail' is also used as a boys name... The name Callie means: Beautiful poetry...

So our little girls name can pretty much be translated to Pleasant Beauty or Pleasant Poetry. And we can't wait to meet her and put a face to the name! (here's hoping she suits it or else we're buggered!)

If it was a little boy, he'd have been named Lucas James... Lucas being a name that both DF and I loved, but not only that, it was his mother's Maiden name, and there have been no boys produced to carry on the name, so we figured we'd honor it... James is DF's family's middle name used for all first born sons... So gotta stick with the trend It also went really well with Lucas.

hhhm well..

Paris, I was trying out all sorts of names - had i had my way she probably would have ended up Eden Nicole, or Jasmine Veda, but mike knew a girl ages ago named Paris and also knew one named harmony and we became adamant that our little girl would be called Paris harmony (if it was a girl of course, we had no boys name) I tried all sorts to convince him of other names, even suggested Tamsyn, or tried to make it Paris Olivia (but got told no cos the initials would spell POT!) So, out came our girl and Paris Harmony she was.

With Ayja we found out what we were having at the 20wk scan, but before then i had been convinced i was having a boy, and we had decided on Leo Michael, (Leo we were reminded of while watching charmed re-runs one afternoon and both thought that was neat, and Michael because mikes family has the tradition that the first boy gets the fathers name as a middle name) of course it was a girl, so we started on lots of lists of names, again i tried for Eden Nicole, and Jasmine Veda - we needed something different in the same way Paris's was, we knew we couldn't have something plain, we went through all sorts of ideas like Opal and Coral and a few others i can't remember.

We were nearly actually set on Coral until mike told his mum and she said it sounded like an old ladies name, in the end we came up with a couple of names and each time he'd tell her and she'd say something that put me off it (obviously I musn't have liked it that much otherwise i wouldn't have cared).

Finally, one morning i was mulling over our names etc in the shower, and Ayja had been down the bottom of our "maybe a middle name" list cos we knew how much bollocks we'd get for using the name since it would mean we'd have 2 place names, but Mike came in and I said "what about Eden nicole?" he said nope nope i told you, so I said "ok, how about Ayja Nicole" and that was it, from that day she was Ayja Nicole, and he was told not to tell his mum. Ayja was originally from the idea from Aja Rock on treasure island, I decided i liked the name, (not the chick though ) But changed the spelling as Aja has a hindu meaning of Goat, and i knew people would spend her life saying it wrong. So we added a y to get Ayja... which is close to the name Aisha which means woman.. (lol she might surprise us, right now she's not very lady-like) and well Paris definately fits the image of her name with the bossy sophisticated girly girl air about her. She likes the fact that there's Paris hilton with the same name as her, I would be very happy if she didn't turn out like that Paris though thank you very much.

so long story short, not too much meaning, just liked the names. I did finally get my Nicole though

Serenity, I love the name you have picked out, but wanted to point out that if you chose the spelling of Cale to stop it looking like a boys name, all the male Cale's i have taught have had that spelling. Now I am not saying not use it, because it goes so nicely with Eden, just wanted to let you know that as that was how I read the post! (So fel free to totally ignore me, lol!)

italiah:) that's his given names:) he lives in the south island..though nowhere near me thank god:)as he wasnt a long term ex i still considered it but no in the end we both liked Ethan more! and my preg brain isnt working..who was Jake in shorters?

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Bailey Wayne Duncan- well everyone asks if hes named that because that is how he was concieved! but NO! my sis was going to call her girl that but she had a boy and decided to call him oakley so the name Bailey was still floating around, DH and i COULD NOT agree on a name! then i saw Bailey in a baby book and that was it! Wayne is DHs father and Duncan is my mothers father who passed away when mum was 14.

Astin Luke - We couldnt agree on a name for him at all!!! if he was a girl he was going to be Lilly after my grandmother and our wedding flower (meant to be our wedding baby but he took too long! lol). One night i was dozing off to sleep when Astin just popped in my head! so i jumped up and woke DH up to put it to him and he screwed his nose up at first so i said "Astin Luke" and he quite liked it! Luke is after his bestfriend (his middle name) who is also the boys godfather, DH wanted it to be Astin Jason, Jason is his BFs first name but i didnt like the sound of it! so yeah Astin luke it is!

If we have another child i want to try and get a name out of mine and DHs names but so far havnt figured out how! (alan conrad and amber maree! lol)

When if have a boy (because I'm going to) I want to call him Padraic Dene - Padraic because I'm sure he could benefit from 'the luck of the Irish' and I love Paddy as a nickname and Dene after my dad

I love Greer Aimee its gorgeous!