BLT with lots of lettuce
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
After a lot of deliberation, Tomoko and I have finally come to a decision on first names, now Tomoko has to figure out what the kanji should be, and I have to think about middle names. The naming process for the girls went much the way it did with Lincoln, except that Tomoko’s early hospitalization delayed the process. What do I mean by that you ask? First let me congratulate you on following on with the narrative so well, that is exactly what I wanted you to ask at this stage. What I mean is that we had narrowed down a long list of names to a shortlist which, through careful consideration and a very scientific process, we then threw out and came up with entirely new names.
We decided in the end to name them after two very important women to us, our mothers, and then we had to find a way to do it. Kathy is a name that just doesn’t work well in Japanese. Tomoko’s mother is named Yuri, and we didn’t want to use the same name, nor did we want to go the traditional Japanese route of using one of her kanji in the new name. So what did we end up doing you ask? Give yourself a gold star and a pat on the back, you are really helping me out with this.
Let me present to you from left to right:
LaeAnn and Lily formerly Thing 2 and Thing 1
How do those names relate back to our Mothers you ask? You are so much smarter than you look, excellent question! My mother’s name is Kathy Ann and so we decided to go with the Ann. Yuri means Lily so it was fairly straightforward to make that leap.
Now do I hear you asking whether we gave all of our children ‘L’ names on purpose? You offend me sir or madam, that would be tacky, I assure you that it came about naturally, and that we debated with ourselves whether to scrap it all and come up with a new idea because of the fact that they ended up that way, but in the end we decided that on the whole it was a much better idea than a run-on sentence as ponderous as this one, and I’ve gone on with this heedless of the danger so what the hey. Since you’ve done such a good job asking the right questions up to this point, I shall leave you license to ask your own.
Yay! the names are announced at last!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE the names and I promise not to show favoritism to LaeAnn:)
AND I am so VERY, VERY honored!!
Love the names. YAY! Now, when do I get to take them home with me? Also, how did you come up with the first part Lae before Ann?
Those are beautiful names for a couple of beautiful girls. I love my adorable nieces. They just might be my favorite set of twin nieces.
Excellent post, I must say--you really had me laughing.
I will admit that I was expecting at least one, if not both, of the babies to be named after me--so way to take me by surprise and come out of left field with this one (or two as the case may be).
And I would be interested in hearing the answer to Heather’s question as well.
Heather ask again in a week if you want the answer to be earlier I would guess. As to the LaeAnn part, we considered LeAnn, but we already have too many lee sounds and were going to run out of kanji, and we wanted something unique. One of us suggested LaeAnn and after confirming that there seemed to be only one other person in the world with that name, and that the other person was a vaguely adult oriented rap model, we really had no choice but to go forward with it. Chenoa, I think you’ll find that both of them are either middle-named in your honor or they aren’t.