May 2008 Weddings
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fraire
not sure i missed a post but it looks like you resolved the naming issue? how did that come about?
Me:39 Dx LPD, Fibroid, AMA and all that goes with that. H:37 Dx low motility and low morphology. TTC since 3/12. Clomid 8/12 and 9/12: BFN. 11/12 on a break for Myomectomy sched. 11/26. Resume TTC early 2013.
Re: fraire
Yes, we finally did. But in order to tell you how we resolved the issue I have to explain a few things before you all say, "that's tacky" lol. I guess now is a good time to let you all know since most of you are fb friends with me and you will see pictures when it happens.
Ok so, since I started reading postd in TB, I've noticed that having two baby showers is tacky. Well, since Alessandra and Gael will be very close in age I guess having a baby shower will fall into the tacky category. BUT, I come from a mexican family and things are viewed diffrent. You get to have as many baby showers as many times as you have babies haha. I guess we just find excuses to party. Well, with that being said, I still never asked for this second baby shower. My mom started planning the shower a few months back, but since we have two busnisses that we run and with so many changes happening to them she asked for my help. My sister lives 5 hrs away and so it's just me and my mom around here to help each other get things done. One of the things she asked me to help her with was making the invitations to the shower. So I did, and that is how we decided on the name.
Since before we got married J had told me that he loved the name Manuel Alejandro and if we ever had children that was the name he wanted for his baby boy. Well, we were dating and not thinking much of it I agreed and said it was a nice name. I mean it sounds nice, but I'm not crazy about it. Well, we get the BFP and he brings back the name that by now I really don't like, so I start looking for names. I come up with Andre Manuel and he agrees. So we have a name, or so I thought. The day we found out it was a boy, everything changed. He went back to wanting Manuel Alejandro. With time conversations about naming our baby boy turned into arguments and he became the bigger person by saying he didn't want me to be upset and cause any harm to the baby by that and, to name our child as I wished. I refused to name him alone so I gave him a few options and he said that his second choice would be Alejandro Manuel, and I agreed. Thinking we had a name I started calling the baby Alex and even bought the letters to put in his room.
Well, the day I was done with the baby shower invitation, J came into my office and I showed it to him. He went crazy!Crazy I tell you! He said that wasn't the baby's name and that if Manuel wasn't the first name that he didn't want it to be his name at all. He would rather wait for the third child and hope it's a boy to pass on his and his father's name. He said that if I named the baby Manuel I would get to choose any middle name I wanted and the third child I would get to name all by myself. By then, I had already realized that naming this baby Manuel meant the world to him. Finally, he told me that he had asked my dad if he would of liked my brother to be named after him, and how my dad said he would of loved it but my mom refused. Well, I actually heard that conversation and eventhough I pretended not to pay attention to them at the time, the truth is that I did and it just broke my heart into a million pices. Yeah, so now I'm crying as I type this haha. Anyway, I know that naming this baby means alot more to him than it does to me. I can't seem to make up my mind and I really don't LOVE boy names. So since my biggest problem was people calling my baby "Manuel" I told him that I would agree to name the baby Manuel if he would promise to call him by whatever second name I chose. He agreed. I started looking for names and came back to Gael. I retyped the invitation, showed it to him, and he said he loved the name. So my baby's name is Manuel Gael.
Wait, but what happened to Alejandro? Well, he started telling me that I would rather name the baby Alex after a "friend" that I had. Ugh. That just really bothered me because I hate that guy. This guy was a person we both new when we were dating and before I met J I knew him. Well, we did kiss a few times but I knew what he wanted and I just didn't feel right around him. So when J brought that up, I was like forget it! That name is out.
I know this is super long and probably the worst writting you've read in a while. Sorry.
Back to work I go.
wow that was long...as long as you are happy with it then it's good but I would remind him that he totally picked out Gigi's name so it would only be fair you pick out the boys name. haha
I'm not in with the spanish sayings so excuse me but how do you pronounce Gael?
But as long as he calls it the middle name then I think that's a good compromise.
And that is very silly that he thinks you'd name your child after a guy you kissed a few times.
I really liked Alexander and calling ours Alex if we weren't having an Allison haha but H didn't care for it.
Wow that is intense!! And exactly how I think picking names for any of our future children will go. Its insane to me how stuck on names guys can get. I really do not care for B's girls name at all. I love Alexander though and have already told B that if he gets his girls name then I get my boys name hahahaha.
I was wondering how you pronounce Gael too?
Oh and the two shower things pssssshhhh whatever. If your family wants to do it let them do it. So many people have "Sprinkles" now anyhow. I just think its tacky if the mom expects a second shower.