What's in a Name, Part Deux...

Now that Cecily is ten days old, it's probably time to address the name change... After all, wasn't this blog called "The Magic of Maia and Evie" for the last few months? It was kind of a surprise to us that we actually named a baby in utero and then made it public... We're guessing it was probably a surprise to most of our family and friends as well. We both really loved Evie as a nickname, and thought Evelyn went beautifully with our last name. We know, literally!, eight families having girls in April, May, and June of this year; and we figured since we had a name we loved, we should stake our claim to it. And we thought it would make the whole "there's a baby growing in Mommy's belly" concept more accessible to Maia if she had a name to go with baby. And so, we went with Evie and let it be known.

We have a wonderful friend named Cecily, and kept talking about what a beautiful and unique name it is throughout my pregnancy. After we settled on Evelyn, Cecily stayed in the back of my mind. About a month and a half ago, I finally admitted to Daddy that I wasn't really feeling Evie, and that I thought we should put Cecily, and some other names we liked, back on the table. Much to my relief, Daddy was feeling the same way. And so, we just decided to wait and see the baby. Would she be an Evelyn? A Cecily? A Tuna? (Maia has a baby named Tuna, and we promised Uncle Ad and Sam we'd keep it under consideration.) She turned out to be a Cecily. (And we're really glad... there were three Evelyn's at the playground the other day!) We hope our family and friends think it's as lovely as we do.

Cecily's first ten days have been really wonderful. Maia adores her, and has been very excited to hold her, help us change her diaper, give her sponge baths, etc. We've been making sure she gets to do all her normal activities, and between that and all the special attention she's getting from Daddy, Nonni, Uncle Adam, Grammy and Grampy, etc., it's been a pretty smooth transition to sisterhood so far. Cec is a very calm baby, and we've been enjoying every minute with her. Here are some more photos: