extremely belated birth announcement

[dustthouart.livejournal.com]

So uh, about three months ago I had another baby.

Mary-Alice Edith is a little sister for Philippa Jamie (nickname: Pippa or Pip). She is mostly called Mary-Alice, but sometimes just Mary, just Alice, or Mim (or Mad Madam Mim when she's cranky).

Mary Alice (no hyphen) was my grandmother's name, and my husband has aunts named Mary and Alice, so it's a family name on both sides. She was born on August 9th which is the feast day of St. Edith Stein, whom I admire.

We decided to use the hyphen because it makes it more obvious that her name is double barrelled, in contexts like school and so on.

The main runners-up were Josephine and Beatrice.

Comments

[quinnthevixen.livejournal.com]

I love the nickname Mim, that's adorable! You have some beautiful kids.

[sweetest-asylum.livejournal.com]

my new kitten's name is Edith :)

[nobodynomore.livejournal.com]

Adorable! And your older daughter's glasses <3 So cute.

[ohhvelocitygirl.livejournal.com]

Mad Madam Mim is awesome

[sarahmarie.livejournal.com]

i love their names! and your new addition was born a day after my birthday.. aww! congratulations!!

[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

Love, love, love your choice! And both your girls are absolutely adorable. :)


Can I ask about Alice, are you getting a lot of negative comments? It is currently our front runner, and I've been kind of scared at the number of ugly comments I've gotten about it. (Old lady name, contains word "lice", spinster name, dowdy, etc.) I'm kind of shocked at the number of people who seem to hate Alice!

(I'm in a conservative state in the US, though.)

[dustthouart.livejournal.com]

I live in Vancouver Canada so people are a lot more likely to sideeye the Mary than the Alice lol. Most people my age, while they don't hate it, they aren't enthusiastic about Mary-Alice, but older people (like 60+) LOVE it, lol.

Pippa gets tons of enthusiasm though from all age groups, and so does Mim. I like spunky nicknames.

Isn't it odd how the more conservative, the more likely they are to pick untraditional names (like Sarah Palin's kids) whereas the liberals are picking Elizabeth and James? Baby Name Wizard has studied this extensively, it's a real phenomenon.

[hermione-vader.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Both of your girls are beautifully named! I love that you used a Mary double-barrel---the world can always use more of those! :D

And Mim is so cute! I had a friend in high school who went by Mim (she was Miriam, though).