Due to my husband’s insistence on having similar names for our children, here are a few choices I liked from the baby name finder tool in ParentPlace.com:

1. Edra, a 2-syllable girl’s name of Hebrew/Anglo-Saxon origin, means: Power; powerful.
2. Edel, a 2-syllable unisex name of Hebrew/Germanic origin, means: Gentle; brave; noble.
3. Enid, a 2-syllable girl’s name of Celtic origin, means: Fair; pure; purity.
4. Esme, a 2-syllable girl’s name of French/Spanish origin, means: Beloved protector; emerald. Nicknames for Esme are Esma and Esmee.

Now I need to look for my little girl’s name, which is going to be a nightmare, because my husband would like it to sound similar to Eric and Joel’s middle name that spells *oel, as in Noel and Joel.

Here’s another old entry from Eric’s old online journal.

My Pee-Pee
Date: 19 July 2001

I finally showed off my pee-pee today — look at that! Understandably, since I’ve been a shy baby, Doc managed to get a scan of my private parts only now, during Mommy’s 35th gestation week.

My pee-pee is circled out in the scan. The four-letter word typed in the scan spells “BOLA”, which, when translated from Malay to English, means “balls”.

This is an entry originally posted in my pregnancy journal for Eric.

I’m a S/He?
Date: 05 July 2001

Mommy and Daddy got a surprise from the Doc today, in Mommy’s 33rd gestation week and monthly check-up. This is what Mommy and the Doc said:

Doc: “What gender did I tell you the baby was?”
Mommy: “A girl.”
Doc: “Did I say 100% girl?”
Mommy: “Uh, no, you only mentioned it’s a girl, but you didn’t say it’s 100%.”
Doc: “Because, I think I’d like to reserve my judgement until much later. Looks like I’m seeing a set of testes here…”

Oh, oh! Mommy and Daddy already picked a name for me, but it ain’t a boy’s name! Doc said he can’t be 100% sure now, because it could be due to the umbilical cord covering my pee-pee part. And so, Doc set our next appointment two weeks from now, on 19 July. Doc hopes by then he can confirm whether I’m a boy or a girl.

Mommy and Daddy will have a “wonderful” time deciding on what to name me

This post is taken from the old pregnancy journals I have for Eric.

My First Photograph
Date: 17 April 2001

The Gynae Doctor took my photo when Mommy and Daddy went to visit him for the first time. I was very shy. I turned my back just when Gynae Doctor wanted to take my picture. Mommy and Daddy was very happy to see me move around. Daddy thinks I was skinny, though.

Mommy dedicated this ultrasound poem for me:
Blessings upon you, my baby unborn
Safely inside me, asleep and so warm,
Sleep must come easy to those who are unborn,
As the maker so silently fashions your form.
Sleep, while you can, so watery and warm,
For outside this world is a terrible storm,
Soon you’ll discover the taste of your tears,
So sleep now my loved one, my Baby, my Dear.

taken from Scraplink.com

I wanted to laugh at the name part when I read this old entry for Eric’s baby journal, originally posted on 19 December 2001.

Mommy & Daddy Found Out

Mommy did her testing almost every other day right after Mommy and Daddy got married. Finally, on this day, at 7:30 pm, Mommy tested again. Finally :o)

At this time, Mommy already had a name picked out for me — Dana Lynn if I’m a girl, William if I’m a boy. Mommy loves The X-Files so much that she wanted me to be named after the character!