Baby Names

A - "Stop asking"
A - "We are not going to tell you"
A - "Yes we do have the names..."
Q - "but if you do not know the sex how can you have a name???? AH HA.... you know the sex but you do not want to tell..."
for the millionth time
A - "NO WE DO NOT KNOW THE SEX, NOR WE WANT TO KNOW IT. WE WOULD NOT LOVE THE BABY BETTER OR MORE DEPENDING ON ITS SEX"
Q - "So the names??? do you have 2 names??"

I lost count of how many times we have this conversation, and every time i am so so excited that people are actually interested in what we have chosen, on the fact that so many people want to be part of this amazing experience we are going through...

We do have the names, we like our names and we would love to shout them... but .... have you ever notice how whenever a friend or someone you know chooses a name for a baby you immediately think about how not nice It is and how can it be changed by mini bullies at school???

So we have decided not to tell you, not to tell anyone, not even the baby knows as we have made our decision long before it could start hearing what is going on outside his domain (season of the tummy).

However we would like you all to be part (even if just as a spectator) of the process that we followed to make this terribly important choice....
we started off with something like this:

And then i remember one of my favourite movies, Aprile by Nanni Moretti where he and his wife are expecting a baby and they need to decide on a name so they go through a process of elimination very similar to a sport's tournament ...

So we begun by writing down all of the names we wanted 

Names for boys included :
Edward, Edgar, Edmund, Henry, Harry, William, Charles, Andrew, Philip, Alexander, Arthur, Francis, Frederick, Laurence, Lucas, Tarquin, Humphrey, Percy, Cecil, Quentin, Tristan, Victor, Godfrey, Winston, Pierce, Maximilian, Duncan, Theodore, Bartholomew, Julius, Clarence , Quentin
Names for girls included:
Beatrice, Francesca, Camilla, Elizabeth, Victoria, Cordelia, Miranda, Eleonora, Georgiana, Madeleine, Alessandra , Helena, Penelope,Diana, Amelia, Harriet, Clarissa, Audrey

ETC ETC  - believe you me we had a lot, A LOT of names

and by the power of VETO we brought it down to 16 boy names and 16 girl names and from there we just did the "Ottavi di finale", the "Quarti di finale" the "semifinale" and the "FINALE"

so i thought every week i will just post the results of our Name Matches....
this week I SEDICESIMI DI FINALE
(i have chosen to represent me and Richard with characters from Hello Spank, I am Micia and Richard is Torakiki)

so with no further ADO

And

See you next week to see who went trough to the "OTTAVI DI FINALE"