What's In A Name (part deux)

You can find the post about Drew's name here.

Settling on a girls name was much harder than Drew's. We had loved Andrew for a boy for years before even conceiving the kid and despite exploring tons of other names, we kept coming back to it. For Deuce, we literally had lists and lists of girls names. Derek and I would text a new name almost daily and really didn't finalize Adalyn as the name until about a month before she was born.

Reasons why we love this name for her:
     - It can be shortened to a nickname just like Andrew. She will go by Ady.
     - It begins with A. Although we weren't only looking at names starting with A's, we think it's adorable.
     - It's somewhat of a classic and elegant sounding name to us just like Andrew.
 
We are also somewhat big on the meaning behind names. Adalyn means 'noble and kind' which we hope she'll be someday. Andrew means 'strong and manly' so they even kinda go together.

Now for the hard part; the middle name.

Derek always wanted our first born son to carry his father's name and because we're both traditional, that happened. If our second child was a boy, I was dead set on the middle name being Lawrence after my father. But then we found out she was a girl. {cue the misery of months of internal debating... seriously months}

Here's what cycled in my head daily.

In order to honor my father since I've always been a daddy's girl and Derek's dad got Drew, I was going to go with Adalyn Lawren (pronounced Lah-wren, not Lor-ren, with the emphasis on wren) which I loved. But then, if it was about who I was closest to in our family, and who she would be closest to in the long run, that would be my brother. So then I wanted Adalyn Ryan (Ryan is his middle name). Super cute right? But then I thought my mom would be crushed if I went with a boy name instead of just going with one of her names. For a while, I was then set on Adalyn Marie. Marie is my middle name, but also my mother's first name (Mary) in French, which she studied for years. So in a way, it would be a piece of both my mother and myself. But then I was back to the fact that I was a daddy's girl meaning I was back at the start of this paragraph. #superstressful

If you asked me on any particular week which one I was set on, it would change often. I struggled and struggled with it, but ultimately chose to go with Lawren. This was partly because I'll always be a daddy's girl, but also because everyone who ever comes in contact with my father ends up loving him. He is always making others laugh and doesn't have a mean bone in his body. It would make me so proud to see Ady grow up a people pleaser and always happy just like my father.

The final touch to her nursery below thanks to TweetHeartWallArt on etsy. Sunny is the owner of this shop and she's super sweet to work with and has some awesome decals. Go check her out!