Thanks for the suggestions. I appreciated all of them! Elvin and I got together last night and went over our separate lists. Here's what we narrowed it down to:
We have six weeks to go until our baby girl arrives, but we still don't have a name for her. I realize that I just need to settle down and choose something, but it's a lot harder
than it sounds.
Elvin's grandma's name is Emma, and we always planned to use it for our next girl, but I just can't do it! It's too popular! I almost just swallowed my pride and did it anyway, but one of our friends, who is a nurse in the St. Marks Nursery, told us that they see at least 2 Emma's a night!! I don't want our little girl to be "Emma A." her whole life...
So now we're starting from scratch. Elvin and I are making separate lists of at least 10 names and are going to compare them sometime this weekend to decide on a name. The strategy is great, but it only works if you have good names on the list in the first place and I'm drawing a lot of blanks!
So I need some help. Does anyone have any names that they like, but can't or couldn't use for some reason? I like the idea of giving her a Hawaiian first name, but I'm definitely not a Hawaiiana expert, and have no solid ideas about what even makes a good Hawaiian name...
Other than that, I like pretty much anything (no made up names please. I don't think my daughter would forgive me if I named her Jolissa, Caslynn, or Skyleigh).
Thanks!! We'll get her named, I'm sure. But if not, I'm pretty sure the lead character in Dirty Dancing is named "Baby," maybe it will make a comeback...
For the Jazz home opener this year, they did a whole warrior theme for the intro. The guys who were in charge of it asked Elvin if he could read a script for the opening light show. They went all out -- even had guys come in to do the haka. Elvin went to a recording studio for a few hours to portray the script in his best "Polynesian warrior" voice. He did a great job. I got to be there to see it. I didn't take this video (Elvin got me much better seats :), but I forgot my camera. Check it out: It's Elvin's voice right before the haka.
We found out this afternoon that our #3 is a girl! We are surprised, but very excited. For some reason we thought it was a boy. She'll be here middle of February.
Elvin and some of his co-workers from the Jazz signed up to be a team at Kyle Korver's and Deron Williams' charity dodge ball tournament last Saturday. It cost $400 a team and spectators paid $20 to watch Jazz players battle it out with the winning team. I don't know how much money they raised for the Christmas Box House, but it probably was a lot. Elvin's team (The Bone Crusherzz) didn't win, but they got to play the Jazz players anyway. They lost 2 games to 1, but not before Elvin knocked Ronnie Price off his feet (or so he bragged to me). Here are some pictures:
I Finally talked Elvin into cutting Kaleo’s hair. We did it Sunday night in the backyard. I cut and Elvin held Kaleo on his lap. Kiana took the pictures. (I didn't have very many clear ones to choose from, but I should be surprised we got decent pictures at all. Good job Kiana.) Kaleo looks so old now!
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