What's in a name?

Christian and I had a girl's name picked out almost immediately after we found out we were pregnant.  But, we were sure we were having a boy!  Anyway, when we found out we were having a girl we immediately started calling her by the name we picked out months prior.  Though we haven't seen her on the outside yet, we know it fits her perfectly.  We had expected to wait until after she was born to announce her name, but we've given up on that.  We love her name and are happy to share it.

Sara Rocio Malvaez

Sara: after my amazing, loving sister.  We hope she inherits her fun-loving attitude, her friendliness and openness, and her giggle:)  She's already a dancer like her aunt, hopefully without the self-injury!  Since it's confusing to have the same name as someone else in your family, she'll go by her middle name.

My Beautiful Sister

Sara, the original, totally owning it on the dance floor.  

Rocio (pronounced ro-SEE-yo, extra points if you can roll your RRRs): after Christian's mom.  Sadly, I haven't met her.  But she raised an amazing son. In Spanish it means "dew".  The nickname for Rocio is Chio.  We've been calling her Chio since we found out we were having a girl.

This is a little art project Christian and I did last night.  This is above where her Co-sleeper will be.  It gives off a nice, soft light for late-night feeding and diaper changing.  Also, we just think it looks cool.

So, we had quite a bit of discussion on Hawaiian names.  It seems somewhat odd to me that my daughter won't have a Hawaiian name.  Her family will most likely give her one unofficially.  Dew in Hawaiian is "hau". Not too pretty.  The Hawaiian equivalent of Sara is Kala.  I like that better.  We'll see.

Here are some songs about our daughter (or my mother-in-law?).  They basically talk about how amazingly beautiful she is.  Yeah, obviously!

Flamenco
Cumbia