Names

If this was a blog only about how I am spending my days right now, it would be a quite boring read to most people. It would go something like this: Changed my sons diaper again, then made him food, then fed him,  felt really tired because of lack of sleep, changed his diaper again, bla bla bla. Highlights would be information about his new tooth (It looks so cuuuute) and his new skill: Raising himself up everywhere (He is so clever. And cute) Sometimes the practical repetitions are boring even for me, but the fact that he is so cute and lovely makes it kind of wonderful anyway.

Look! New tooth!

Anyway, this means that most of the adventorous stuff in my life is happening inside my brain. Lots of less adventorous things are happening there too, like LISTS. As I have written about before, I love making lists..One of my favourite lists at the moments is the name-list. As you know, we are expecting a new baby in february, and this little person is going to have a name. We also recently found out that we are expecting another boy. :-) So now it is more concrete, and feels more real.

So, I made some lists, with boys names. (Not that I hadnt done before. I think I started it already 15 years ago, haha. But now I made a new one, where I tried to shorten it down a bit..)
Luckily my husband thinks it is my task & pleasure to find the name, and as long as he has nothing against the name it is all ok for him.

I dont know why, but boys names are just so much more difficult to find than girls names. I have names ready for 20 daughters already. But for boys it seems as if you have to choose between a not nice name, or a nice name which is too common. Since we are an international couple we also have some "rules" to follow. One rule is that it needs to be possible to pronounce it in both Norwegain, Danish, English and Nepali. And this creates another rule: The name should not have an R in it, and it shall not end with a J.

Finally I had a list with four names, and in  addition I found a Nepalese name which I liked. (After a long search, because even there it was more difficult finding nice boys names than girls names) When I told my husband the Nepalese name I had found he told me that name is almost too common, even though I have never heard it before. He said that if we named our son that, and then gave him his fathers surname, he would sound like a very average and traditional Nepalese person. We then decided it could be a middle name, and find another main name/first name.

I then went back to my list with four names:
S or I or V or D.
(Sorry, I am a little bit supersticious, so I cant tell you the whole names until he is born)

S =  Maybe my favourite among the four. But I dont know if it sounds weird in other languages/countries, I could just imagine it would sound really weird when being pronounced by Nepalese people. In addition this name didnt fit well with the second name (The nepalese one) When I said them both together it sounded weird.
I: Ok, but not my favourite. But this sounded really nice and right with the Nepalese name.
V: Deleted because it ended with the same letter as the second name started with, and it sounded weird.
D (Dante) Deleted, because when I told my husband about this name he said it is basically the same as tooth in Nepali! (Danta)

So, we ended up with I, because it sounded nice with the second one, and harmonious, and so on, and could be pronounced in all languages.

Then....two weeks later my husband suddenly said: Is the name really finalized? Because I really want all of my children to start with an S. Cant you find a name starting with an S? (He has a daughter from before, and her name by coincidence also starts with an S) The funny thing is that the only name on my list which was not deleted was actually starting with an S. This was also my favourite from the beginning. He repeated it and surprisingly it did not sound weird from the mouth of a nepalese at all. So, now that is finalized! His first name will be S, and it will sound weird together with the second name, but at least it will sound nice with Silas, and thats what we will hear in our daily speaking.


I promise that my next blogpost will be either shorter, or more interesting, or at least not include codes and secret names.