Nursery kids

[smileygoldfish.livejournal.com]

My husband and I volunteer in the nursery at church. They're 1.5 to 3 year olds.
Their names:

Mylee
Ruby - siblings

Natalie
Mara - siblings

Evie
Kelly
Malory
Monique
Moriah
Sara
Marcella (hispanic family)
Andrea
Dionysis (I think i may have mispelled this one - like the greek goddess, her brother's name is Thor)

Zach
Chase
Brigham
Cameron
Ethan
Justin

Lots of M girls names. I call Malory and Moriah by the wrong names quite frequently. But I pretty much like all of them except Dionysis

Comments

[smileygoldfish.livejournal.com]

oh, probably. That's quite funny

[http://users.livejournal.com/_xasphyxiax_/]

yes, he was actually the god of sex and wine.

[mountain-nest.livejournal.com]

yep.
Also, Dionysius Exiguus was the one who decided December 25th must have been Christ's birthday, by counting backwards seven hundred some-odd years! Random Christmastime trivia.

[queen-mab.livejournal.com]

Doesn't it say in the Bible somewhere that Christ's birth was somewhere during the Roman Equinox? That would be early summer, lol.

This is why Christmas has always confused me.

[mountain-nest.livejournal.com]

There is also evidence that it occurred sometime in April, because Caesar Augustus was collecting taxes and doing a census.

[washironfucketc.livejournal.com]

I love the name chase but hubby hated it :(

[smileygoldfish.livejournal.com]

You know when her mom first told me her name I thought it was really cool. And pretty on a girl. But now I don't like it at all because its not practical in use. It's mush easier for me to say "Malory, please don't take Zach's crackers." Then to say "Dionyasis, can you share, please?" It just has so may syllables it makes it awkward to say. In fact, I don't like to say her name at all if I don't have to.

Her parents don't even call her by her full name, but an unrelated short nickname, but they told me they wanted her to get used to her unusual name.

[smileygoldfish.livejournal.com]

That's kind of what I was thinking

[queen-mab.livejournal.com]

If my name was Dionysis I would go by Di or Diane, lol.

[cloeigrrl.livejournal.com]

Ok I know I'm going to be the only one here who actually went "holy crap the goddess of wine how freakin cool" when I read Dionysis but oh well.

One of the names I wanted for this little man in the belly was Eris but Eris is the greek goddess of chaos. No greek god of chaos or that would be his name *ggrrr*

I think of the the names are quite normal I guess only one that seems kinda "new" that I've not heard recently is Bringham.

[cloeigrrl.livejournal.com]

Except that I'm having a boy - I never knew that finding a boy name would be so hard. We had soooo many good names picked out for a girl but nope. Don't get me wrong I'm happy we're having a boy I just never thought it would be so hard to come up with a name for him ;)

[snailrevolution.livejournal.com]

Ares was the god of war... which could be seen as a form of Chaos.

It's also pretty close to Eris. :p

[snailrevolution.livejournal.com]

Dionysus is a Greek god (as in, male). These people named their daughter that? Ugh.

I like the others ok.

[anapology.livejournal.com]

I love Evie and I like Chase, Ethan & Joshua.

Dionysis was the MALE god of wine and entertainment... lol for a girl that's silly!