We're blessing Sally tomorrow
A. I'm a Kelly McCaleb fan. I found her while doing a little blog-stalking one day. She's the one that took our family pictures in Utah last summer. And she also has the cutest Etsy shop where I found these hand-knit newborn blessing slippers. Here's her
blog and here's her Etsy
shop (where I stole the above picture).
B. I'm anal about names. Here are my baby naming rules that only apply to me so don't be offended. And also I'm allowed to break my own rules:
1. All family members names should start and end with a different letter. I think this came from my family where none of my 4 brothers and 3 sisters share the same first letter.
(BROKEN: Shauna and Sally both start with S; Justin and Owen both end with N)
2. No 3 syllable names (the last name is a mouthful).
3. 3 syllables total allowed between 1st and middle names (the last name is a mouthful).
(BROKEN: Justin's 1st 2 names = 5 syllables and mine = 4 (my maiden name was also a mouthful). But we didn't name ourselves so it's okay)
4. Names should be obviously masculine or feminine so that if somebody has never met one of my kids but they see or hear their name they would know if it's a boy or a girl. No unisex names.
(SEMI-BROKEN: Drew Barrymore is a girl named Drew. That name is 75% male so there are a few girl Drews out there. But Drew Alan is obviously a boy name. I hope. And Michelle Branch is busted for naming her DAUGHTER Owen)
5. The middle name should have some family meaning.
(BROKEN: Sally's middle name Belle. I'm sure one of us has a Belle somewhere but we don't know about it. Our friend Elizabeth threw out the name and the more we thought about it the more we liked it. Think Southern Belle (we ARE in the South), not Belle from Beauty and the Beast
. We did find out after the fact that one of Justin's great-grandpas nicknamed his wife Sally which is cool)
6. The names need to sound different enough so that when they're yelled they don't get confused. Not that I would ever yell! But my brother Derek and sister Karen's names sound the same when yelled. Not that my mom ever yelled! But we did have a basement that got hollered down to a lot.
7. And lastly, a kid's first name not only needs to sound good with his own middle and last name but ALSO his siblings names. Drew's name was the toughest ever to come up with. We knew his middle name would be Alan before we had chosen a first name so his first name had to be one syllable and sound good with: Alan, Hollobaugh, and Owen.
It's a miracle any of our kids have names at all with all my rules.
O(wen) - One
O(wen), D(rew) - Over Dose or Oh Dear
(Now that Owen's pink-eye is gone he loves to hold Sally, get her out of her carseat, carry her around the house, etc.)
(Trying to make her smile by tickling)
O(wen), D(rew), S(ally) - Okie Dokie Smokie, Operation Desert Storm, or Online Dating Service
Mema & Baby Owen
Mema & Drew at Bear Lake in Utah last summer.
Look who we saw at the beach today!
We're blessing Sally tomorrow
While the boys were at church, Sally & I had church at home... kind of nice in my pj's. I wanted to go, but not on 4 hours of sleep. So I read a couple Ensign articles, played some Easter songs on the piano. No singing though. I don't sing unless with a very large group.
This is the size basket Drew needed w/all the eggs out there... way too many for the 3 kids that hunted.
Chocolate face.
The mother lode of eggs.
Sorry for decapitating you Aaron.
Owen was way into it and wanted to sleep w/his colored eggs.
Drew was into it, too... he drank a gulp of the colored water, vinegar and all.
Are you so comfortable in my belly that you don't want to come out?
Drew may go to the bathroom on your head once or twice.
The kid needs his own sunglasses.
