A name....oh a name!!!!

Well, it's the eve of my 34th week milestone and my hubby and I are still torn on a name for our Sweet Pea.

With Nya, it just seemed so easy with picking and deciding on her name.

Several years ago a friend of mine's sister had a baby girl and they named her Anaya. The name struck a cord with me when I heard it uttered from her lips. I was newly engaged at the time and I thought 'hmm, that's a really pretty and unique name?! I'll have to put that in my archives!'. Lol

Fast forward 5 years. The love of my life and I were expecting our first baby; we were extatic and over the moon as we had prayed and planned for this baby. We didn't want to find out the gender of our baby until he/she was born, so we began to research both boy and girl names. The boys name we really struggled with. In fact, we still hadn't fully agreed on a boys name even up until the time my water broke at 37 weeks pregnant; good thing we had a girl! Lol
Anyhow, finding a girls name was just so simple.
It didn't take much discussion or thought at all.

One night laying in bed, flipping through the baby book of names, probably around 6 or 7 months pregnant, I came across the name Nya. Immediately I was reminded of the name I heard several years back 'Anaya' that I had liked so much at the time. Anaya didn't sit as well with me anymore; however, the name Nya screamed out at me from the page.

It was love at first sight!  Lol It was original, elegant, classy, feminine and a name that she could grow with. (Some names are cute for babies, but not for grown adults, vice versa)

 When picking a name, I always think about how it will sound for a baby and how it will look on a resume or sound in the workforce.

Truth be told, names make an impression. It's the first thing an employer sees when they look at a resume; so we try to pick wisely. Lol

(PS. This is one reason why I make sure my middle name is on my resume as most tend to think I'm a boy when they see my name on paper; thanks mom and dad! Lol)

Anyhow, I just loved the name Nya. I also loved that it wasn't common; a name you wouldn't hear being called out at the playground or in a classroom with 20 other students.

I looked up the meaning and my love for the name grew even stronger; 'One with a purpose'.
That was it!! It was a done deal for me. Lol Now, to convince my hubby on it! Lol

I brought the name by him one night on one of our regular walks around the block. He thought on it, said it aloud a few times and said 'hmm... I actually really like that! That sounds really pretty!'.

And the rest is history. We had a beautiful baby girl and her name was confidentially Nya Rose Bynoe.

I've been blessed to be pregnant again with another little girl, but picking her name hasn't been as easy.

As blogged earlier in a post, I was praying one AM a few months back and a name came to me. I really liked the name and brought it by Dennard who too liked the name; BUT we are still tossing it around. Lol We both aren't quite sure if it's 'the name' just yet.

We both laid in bed last night at midnight, searching Google for beautiful and unique girls names. Lol
Dennard would shout out suggestions and say 'write that one down!'. As he continued his search, I would look up the meaning of each name. It was so funny.
It all started from us snuggling and discussing our day to me saying 'Sweets,  I'm really concerned we don't have a name yet. Our little girl could technically come at anytime now!'.

That was all he needed to hear. He immediately grabbed his phone and our search began. Lol

I have been on every baby name website known to man and I have scoped the names in my 10,000+ book of baby names; there isn't a name I haven't seen, heard or pondered. Lol

Needless to say, we searched for a good 45mins and then knocked out. I tossed and turned all night, my mind spinning on all the different names Dennard had suggested. When I woke up this AM, Dennard said 'so, has (fill in the blank name) moved this AM yet?'. Lol

He threw out one of the random names we had discussed the night prior.  I responded 'I don't really like that name'. Funny enough he said 'ya, me either!'. Lol

He then started to use the other names he had originally suggested in our conversation; 'so, when does (fill in the blank name) usually start to get active?'.

He, like myself, needs to hear the name and say it aloud a few times before we can give a firm yay or nay on it.

We both couldn't help but laugh.

None of the names sat well with either of us. We seem to keep resorting back to the name that came to me in prayer.

So, long story short, we are still indecisive :/
I've been praying for God to confirm a name to me and give me peace about it. Still waiting on the confirmation and peace...lol

Today:
Today I was craving a steak burrito from Burrito Boys. On our way to Costco to pick up a few things for our church bbq on Monday (long weekend, woo hoo!!) I told Dennard that we needed to stop off their first. It wasn't even a 'can we stop there' it was a 'we must stop there please!!!'. Lol
 Being the good husband he is, we made a detour and stopped in for lunch :)
Ohhhh let me tell you, it was soooo good!! I was one satisfied little mommy!!! Lol

                   Happily awaiting our order :) he he

     
   Isn't she a beauty!! Check out that burrito :D loool