The Name Game

As most of you know I take after my mom in a lot of different ways. One of the more obvious ways being physically. We look a lot alike. Which I am very thankful for being as my mom looks about 15 years younger than she really is. Hopefully that will be my case as well.

But anyways the point of this being...yes, we may be a like in a lot of ways but we are also very different in many. One way that we have seen recently with me being pregnant is that my mom never once wanted to know the sex of any of her kids. She was quite content in waiting until we came out. (Although I am not sure how well this worked out for her since she was convinced I was a boy and made the doctor double check after I was born.) I on the other hand had to know! I couldn't wait to find out if what she was. I had to know because I had to be able to identify with her. Another thing I really wanted was to decide on and give her a name as soon as possible. I wanted to be able to call her by name and talk to her using her name.

John and I have been talking about names since we first found out we were expecting. The boys names came a lot easier than the girls. So when we found out it was a girl I thought it was going to take us forever to decide. But it didn't and boy am I glad. So for those of you who don't know we have decided to name our daughter Kaley Marilynn Vasel.

It was very important to me that her middle name be Marilynn as that is my middle name and it was my dad's mother's name. However, coming up with a name that flows with Marilynn was not so easy! However we both grew to love the name Kaley. So that is it. That's our daughter, Kaley Marilynn Vasel.