The Baby Name and the Baby

I'm sorry. This apology is necessary for anyone who's taken the time to contribute a baby name for our nameless little girl yet has not seen any evidence to support the fruits of their labor. 

We had some ideas for names going in, but thought she might "tell us" who she was once she came out. Now we're pretty certain she doesn't want to be saddled with whatever the name is for being cross eyed and making tiny growling noises. 

She seems as disappointed as many of you (and if any of you knew my dear Grandma Mac you might recognize that look.)

She's also got a scream that could be banshees being attacked by zombies, or vice versa, or the terrifying chorus of their unholy alliance. She's not as crazy as Quin was in his first seven weeks of psyche-shattering shrieking, but she's nearly as nuts...in the most adorable way possible. And I'm telling you, this girl has got me somewhere primal. I mean I see her curled up and nuzzling and I'd cut down the last redwood to make her a papoose. I'd leap across a flaming pit for an ice cream cone. Somebody show me where a dragon is because I'll vanquish the fire-breathing bastard! 

Right now I'd sprint through a war zone to get her a binky she likes. But that would really be more for me.

Here are pictures from a more peaceful time.

Destroyer of reasonable men.

She has one ear that looks like Spock's. Apparently perfection comes with two different ears.

A brief update on the name: the birth certificate people have said we need to get something to them TOMORROW MORNING (Friday, December 6th) or it will get much more difficult to process our little lady into the "system". Sounds terrifying. Here's a list of the most popular names suggested.

Oh, and I should add a thing about my mother. Greatest lady ever? She'd laugh and point to the woman who's wrestling an angry infant on the couch. Besides, my mom's busy. In a scandal that has rocked the ether, her energy has been eternally entwined with that of Gregory Hines. Also, with our first born we paid tribute to her in the kind of surreptitious way she would enjoy (or I'm left to guess.) Quin comes from Quintanamos, the name of my mom's imaginary friend--also a renowned chef-- who lived in her world until her passing in the summer of 2005. Some people would say she was delusional; others might say she cracked the code to the good life. Regardless, we have Quin, this person that was born in the deepest part of a brilliant person's imagination, and now has come to life as only a mother could bring him.

So...The Baby Names* that have been suggested on Twitter, Facebook, at work...I mean I'm really going crazy searching the 'net (the fifty most successful women may be talented but their names are lame,) asking strangers and interrogating children for ideas.

Good Ones

Dashielle, Mirabelle, Lailah(lay-la), Allegra, Ariah, Cello (chello),Melody, Rhapsody, & Symphony

Alberta. Bertie for short.

elle or ella 

Annabelle! 

Henrika

Ann, Anne, Freya, Saga, Laura, Sofia

Priscilla

Jamie... Sadie...Bailey

Sydney

Amelia; Sophia

Mae West

Camillla, Chloe, Ayla, Noelle, Isabelle, Lillian, Eliana, Opal, Lily, Layla, Mallory, McKinley, Nathalie, Valerie, Isolde, Ilona, Lorelei, Isla, Scarlett

Penelope or Prudence

Chicco

Layla

Seven

Paola

Amelia, Ava, Addison, Harmony 

Anne

Lira 

Sarah II

Billy

Billye

Nizhonie

Violet

Ann

Spot (Six Pounds of Terror)

Petunia

Hallie

Veronica

Isolde

Lily? Abigail, Giselle, Clarissa, Madeline, Sophia or Grace

Olivia Ann

Lyssandra

Zyrah

Kattarina

Pearl 

Tesla 

Electra Lee Ewy

Delilah Ruby

NoName (pron: No Nah May)

Carter

Drucilla, Aurora, Charlotte

Lucy

Laila

Lucille

Eerie, Dove, Lovey, Texi, Chestina, Odell, Leafy, Ova, Tiny, Buelah, Barna, Pearly, Flonnie, Classy, Lavada, Almeta, Dimple, Merry, Gaynell...

Ida... Mabeline (Mabel)... Madeline... Zelda... Ethel... Izzy... Hazel... Just for some Runs with Brothers

Ella

Emma

Elizabeth

Mable

Louise, Eleanor, Avery (means Elf Ruler!), Evelyn, Eliza B

Erin Carter

Pearl

donatella alexandria ewy

Shira

Alice

Elsa

Ellis

Sutton

Hudson

The ones that would take some drinking:

Plix Rounds Dove Peeveless Flerror

Elliot "Your Friend Stewie Griffin" Ewy

NameDotCom

Gooey

Skeeter

Hildred

Runs with Brothers

Pizza

Elizabeth Borden

ABCDE

Michonne

Jaredina

Eliot Riot Ewy

Starbuck

Eliot Daenerys Stormborn Targaryen Ewy

Sarah is passed out right now. Our baby is finally asleep, too. I've told Sarah that when she wakes up to feed our gal at some awful time in the morning (the hour of the Zombanshee,) to take one good, long look at her and lock it in. Draw a long maternal glance and make it stick. It's time. 

*I wish the phrase "baby name" weren't so annoying. For one, it's not a baby name, but a person name. If it really were a baby's name, then we could lose it like we do our teeth and grow into something new. "Yes, Turdell**, you're supposed to change your name when your 12. Unless of course you like it."

**There really was a guy named Turdell who played for the Oakland Raiders. So whatever we do we could do much worse.

Comments

[Jack Kacik]

Daenerys Stormborn Targaryen Ewy has such a nice ring to it!