what's in a name?
well, for those who voted and have been anxiously awaiting to find out what our little baby is (hehe), here is your answer!
drum roll please....... it is a..... girl!
yes, i was completely wrong, and have lost some confidence in my own maternal instincts - haha. while i truly was happy with either gender, i did not realize how much i was convinced that it was a boy until we found out that it was a girl, and suddenly i realized that every image i had towards the future, every article of clothing i had looked at, and every name that had run through my mind was all geared towards a boy! after also getting over my initial panic as i thought of everything that i had put my parents through as their oldest, strong-willed daughter, true excitement set in as we have begun to look forward to life with a little girl!
as we went through different name ideas, it was important to us that our daughter have a name that carried a good meaning behind it. leslie also lent us a book that talked about how throughout the bible times and in the hebrew language, a name is more than just a title for an object, but actually carries with it the "being" aspect of a person's identity and character. we loved this concept, and it encouraged us that much more to look at the significance behind the name that we chose.
so we have decided to name her catherine anna ficker, and we will call her anna. catherine means pure and also carries with it in this specific case the fact that she will be the fourth oldest child and daughter in a row on my mother's side of the family to be named catherine! however, we also have about a million catherines and all the variety of nicknames that go along with that on both sides of our family; we were unsure of what to do with that until one night we came across the name anna as we were reading the bible. a prophetess whose story is found in luke chapter 2, anna spent most of her life interceding in prayer and worship in the temple after she was widowed at a young age. she was one of the first two to greet jesus at a week old of age, rejoicing over the birth of the savior she had prayed for for so long. she is also linked to hannah in scripture (which also happens to be our anna's aunt's name) as in the same way, hannah spent hours int he temple praying for the gift of her son samuel. meaning gracious and merciful, we both felt right away that this was the name for our little daughter.
so in february we will welcome little anna into our life... only 2 1/2 months away and counting :) as her kicking and squirming becomes more and more frequent (and more and more forceful), we get more and more excited to meet her, see her face, and hold her.
thank you to all of you who have been praying for her... in times when we cannot see those we love, it is such a comfort and encouragement to hear of and feel their prayers.
p.s. the post below this one is also new and accounts for the long gap in my blogging :)
drum roll please....... it is a..... girl!
yes, i was completely wrong, and have lost some confidence in my own maternal instincts - haha. while i truly was happy with either gender, i did not realize how much i was convinced that it was a boy until we found out that it was a girl, and suddenly i realized that every image i had towards the future, every article of clothing i had looked at, and every name that had run through my mind was all geared towards a boy! after also getting over my initial panic as i thought of everything that i had put my parents through as their oldest, strong-willed daughter, true excitement set in as we have begun to look forward to life with a little girl!
as we went through different name ideas, it was important to us that our daughter have a name that carried a good meaning behind it. leslie also lent us a book that talked about how throughout the bible times and in the hebrew language, a name is more than just a title for an object, but actually carries with it the "being" aspect of a person's identity and character. we loved this concept, and it encouraged us that much more to look at the significance behind the name that we chose.
so we have decided to name her catherine anna ficker, and we will call her anna. catherine means pure and also carries with it in this specific case the fact that she will be the fourth oldest child and daughter in a row on my mother's side of the family to be named catherine! however, we also have about a million catherines and all the variety of nicknames that go along with that on both sides of our family; we were unsure of what to do with that until one night we came across the name anna as we were reading the bible. a prophetess whose story is found in luke chapter 2, anna spent most of her life interceding in prayer and worship in the temple after she was widowed at a young age. she was one of the first two to greet jesus at a week old of age, rejoicing over the birth of the savior she had prayed for for so long. she is also linked to hannah in scripture (which also happens to be our anna's aunt's name) as in the same way, hannah spent hours int he temple praying for the gift of her son samuel. meaning gracious and merciful, we both felt right away that this was the name for our little daughter.
so in february we will welcome little anna into our life... only 2 1/2 months away and counting :) as her kicking and squirming becomes more and more frequent (and more and more forceful), we get more and more excited to meet her, see her face, and hold her.
thank you to all of you who have been praying for her... in times when we cannot see those we love, it is such a comfort and encouragement to hear of and feel their prayers.
p.s. the post below this one is also new and accounts for the long gap in my blogging :)
posted by katie at 5:01 PM
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Hooray!!! Girls are so fun and so strong willed. You will have your hands full. But you will love it.
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