Found 'the one' - and it's not Beauden [grin]

[arizonagirl]

Hi everyone,

Well, after a few days of constant name games, me and dh are sorted. Thanks to everyone's help we have decided not to go with Beauden after the BAD reaction on here. Or Indigo or Lyric or Soren. Lots of you still will hate our choices but I think you know when you have decided because you don't care less anymore what others think (in a nice way).

Soooo. our final choices are:

Girl: Sonnet Melody
Boy: Winter Beau Alexander.

See, I still have my Beau in there .

I think these fit in really well with our other dc. The only big problem is that we have an Autumn so it may well sound contrived. But they aren't going to be joined at the hip and will have their own identities.

One last favour!!!

Can anyone suggest a nice third name to go with Sonnet Melody? (Our other three have all got two middle names so I want to do the same).

Was thinking perhaps:

Sonnet Melody Grace
Sonnet Melody Eve
Sonnet Melody Erin

Want a classic name she can fall back on if she hates her other two names.

Anyway, thank you for all your help. I think I can almost leave these boards in peace now

Ooh, I'm liking Meadow and Acer. Not for my own child, obviously, but I think we're all agreed that the benchmark of bonkers-dom is considerably higher when applied to the progeny of the wonderful arizonagirl.

Nickname Ace, now that's ace.

Janoschi - do you know what? I wholeheartedly agree with you. Every name was new once and at least they are not over-used a dull dull dull. I've had someone with a Jodie turn their nose up at my son's name and accuse me of making it up to be different! Jodie is about 40 years old and my son's name is a few hundred! Just because they'd never heard it doesn't make it made up!

Having said that, some made up names are really beyond the pale, let's be honest.

(mostly the ones on Jerry Springer.)

I really like Cypress, Heath, Sage, and Aspen.

How about Jem? Different spelling to the 'nature word' I know but it sounds nice!

Or Dale? I quite like this because it reminds me of the dwarves in LOTR.

Dylan?

Laurence (crowned with laurel) is a fabbo name too. DD1 would have been Laurence, had she been ds.

I WISH I could convince you to like Rowan though - it's a great name.

OOOH I LOVE Acer for a boy! Also loving Dale, makes me think of blowsy, windswept landscapes, out there in the wind and the rain and the... stoppit. Running away with myself again

Have now read thread and realised you have already thought of Aspen but don't like the nn of Ass, understandably. But Ace is pretty cool.

Love Cypress and Cy

And have to agree with some of the others on here - arizona you are so mellow in your responses where many, many others would have stropped off ... and you asked for opinions and actually listened and took note. Is this a MN first. You sounds like a super mum.

I think your name choices are fantastic and baeautiful

Ooh I like Jem.

Logan, Autumn, Ocean and Jem..... Lovely!

I CANNOT wait to find out what this baby turns out to be called

janoschi Arizona hasn't taken offence, so I'm not sure you need to on her behalf, she has posted on here for opinions, which is what she's getting. I think most people have been quite helpful actually, and not just flamed her.

Anyway, can't you tell? We all love her!

Dale makes me think of Dale Winton.

Acer works.

Acer is a laptop!!

I LOVE Logan :) And I think Jem would go really well with your other chn's names.

Also liking Cypruss. Cy is an awesome nn!

fellatio re yr 4 seasons plan, when I was a child I planned to have triplets and name them Faith, Hope and Charity!

(apols to anyone on MN who has done that! )

Anyway. As you were.

Liking yr attitude tho Arizonagirl!

Arizona with all these new names, I'm actually beginning to like Beauden... Was that your intention?
Jem is nice (very To Kill A Mockingbird).
I'm fascinated what name this baby ends up with!

Thanks for making my weekend so much fun . Have loved reading your comments and you have taken me on a long journey:

From Beauden to Soren to Indigo to Winter to Snowden to Cypress....

But I think.....wait for it.....we have got there (thanks to you wonderful people). Unless, of course, you all veto it in abundance. And you are all right - love our new boy's name far more than Beauden, whilst Winter would have been a bad bad move.

So...... Take four......the final name choices are:

Sonnet Melody Rose

Cypress Beau Alexander (nn Cy)OR
Cypress Jem Alexander.

I love your idea of Jem although I have to admit I have never heard of it before. Mentioned Acer to dh and he immediately said it was a computer (news to me).

Can't believe you guys have influenced me so much but I love this choice soooo much more than Beauden. So I owe you.

Is this acceptable with you lot out there or are you still going to send social services over???

hiya, can i just say i love/loved winter and think it would be kind of cool to have an autumn and a winter. they are the best 2 seasons after all! cypress just makes me think of cyprus the place? girls name is great.i think u will ultimately love whatever u go for though. let us know the final name!

I think Cypress is nice, different, and goes well with your other kids' names without sounding matchy! Now all you need is the baby to fit the name! Have you got long to go?

Jem's a really old name. It's been used for another literary character as well as the one in To Kill A Mockingbird, though I can't remember now where it's from.

Good move on ditching Winter. Just not good with an Autumn. Would be like Nicole Kidman having another daughter and naming her Monday.

I meant all the above about Jem approvingly btw. Like it.

So glad you like Jem! Much better as a first name though!

jem is LOVELY.

yy to Cypress Jem Alexander (love the Jem Alexander)

Nice choices!

Whaaat? You mean you don't like Meadow? And Acer is a compooter?? Neverheardofit.

I love Sonnet Melody Rose, it has flow.

But I can't choose between Cypress Beau or Cypress Jem. I like them both for different reasons. Beau is.. possibly more elegantly refined, but Jem has a certain irresistable, insousiant, je ne say kwoi.

jem far nicer than cypress, cypress hill anyone?

please ditch sonnet its horrible.

these are children you're naming not toys for you to play with. you seem like a nice person but i think you're crazy lumbering your children with names like 'ocean' and 'sonnet', so 'try hard'. sorry

Yes, I thought of Cypress Hill. Not a good thought.