I've been wanting to post here for a while. (You'll see, long post.)
I was "Joey" when I was a kid (and still to DH). I think Joely is a nice name that might work for you too, iwrite.
I was TREMENDOUSLY amused last weekend when my DH out of the blue said to me I think Jane would be good for a girl. Now, one year ago he was fighting tooth and nail against the adoption (mainly timing, he wanted to wait). He relented and our son will be one next month. A couple of months ago when I said I wanted to come up with new boy and girl name choices for the next baby, he said, "I don't even want to talk about it. We need to wait until he is at least 4 till we apply again." And then I find out he has been thinking about it ON HIS OWN and decided on a GIRL'S name. It is okay because I am pretty set on a choice for a boy.
And then yesterday, when we were paying for our new water heater
, he says, "I wish we weren't putting all this money toward house improvements. Then, we could put it toward adopting more children." childREN!!!!
One more thing about names, DH and I had a boy and girl choice before we even applied. SO for the longest time, I thought we would have an Art or an Ella. But, now that we have an Art, I don't want to use the Ella. I felt like I needed to have two brand new choices. Almost like Ella would be a castoff name. I know it is weird, but we are choosing new ones. I wouldn't be surprised if we do the same thing for #3.
We tend to like REALLY old-fashioned and fairly uncommon names. Ella was short for Marcella (my granny's name). And, though I know most won't like it, I like Ulysses, Ulee for short, for a boy. I am big on nicknames, what would I do with a Jane?
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