And She Shall Be Called

Before writing this post I went back into the blog archives and I found the post where I wrote about naming M - HERE.  I thought you all might want to check that whole process out as well.

So... We have chosen a name for “Baby Sister”... Finally!!!!  This was not an easy task.  We spent so many hours pouring over name books and naming websites.  Seriously, so many should actually read SO MANY, because friends, I read my first “top 100,000 names”  book during the olympics... in July!  After almost 6 months of people asking if we have chosen a name we can finally say yes! 

Again, I will not be disclosing her name on the blog.  I will post it on FB and if you read this well, you will figure it out, but I just don’t want anyone to search for her and find her here.  I hope that makes sense. 

Her Chinese name (which we have grown to love deeply) will be her second middle name.  This way, if she ever wants to be called the name of her birth country heritage she will easily be able to. 

Her first name starts with a “T” so she will be referred to on the blog as Baby T or T. 
Sweet T’s name means, “song of praise” and it can be found in the Bible 59 times... sort of.  T’s name is in the original language of the OT.  It is our hope and prayer that her life would be a song of praise to the Lord! 

We wanted a very unique name that would work nicely with M and had a rich Biblical meaning.   That shortened the list a little.  For a while we considered the super cool name of the lovely woman who did my hair for my brother’s wedding.  We tried it out for several weeks.  Very frequently I would ask Brandon to remind me of the name we were trying out, because I kept thinking it was “T” (the trial name also started with a T).  We would laugh and then keep trying it.  We didn’t  seriously consider naming our daughter T until recently.  You see, we have dear friends who have a daughter named T.  They went to grad school with Brandon and while we will most likely never live in the same country as them we still felt strange about naming our daughter the same name as their daughter.  We know they took much time in choosing her name and we didn’t want to belittle that in anyway. 

As we researched the meaning of T and we learned about more people who have that name we became more comfortable with choosing it for our daughter.  We feel it a beautiful name. It is tender, yet strong... much like I imagine our sweet T to be. 

We have asked M several times if he has any thoughts on his baby sister’s name.  Besides her Chinese name which he often suggests he has only come up with “funny words” as he calls them which are made up words in a pattern like this: Camer, Tamer, Poner, Moner, BlabeeBlabeeBlabeeBlabee.  It usually ends with a sound or two.  Anyway, one time he said something that actually sounded like the name of female human!  It could be a possible nick name for T so he did his part as well. 

Her first middle name is one of the most simple and complex words in the Bible, grace.  Oh I pray that she will understand the meaning of grace and the cost of grace and that she will live in it from an early age.  I also pray that she would extend it to others quickly, especially her mommy since I need it a lot! 

I find it fitting that once T comes home I will be playing with  “MT” and running on “empty.”  Of course MT will make for a FULL life! :)

Thank you all for your prayers for us as we chose a name.  I was so comforted to read the entry about picking M’s name and how were were going to walk forward with the name, hoping it was the correct choice.  He is such a M today.  I feel we made the right choice.  I pray that as I reflect on this entry two years from now I will again have confidence that sweet T has a name that suits her as well. 

More adoption updates are coming soon.  T also gave me a heads up on the gear she most needs and wants for her first Christmas so I will be passing that along very soon as well.