Monday, April 30, 2007

Would a Maia By Any Other Name...

Maia has decided that she doesn't like her name at the moment. This afternoon she decided that she would like to be called Rose. This evening, Eve was the front runner... So far, so girly.

She still likes the Ani-Jo Sunshine Packington-Cull bit... but thinks that Maia "doesn't really suit her".

Have been having weird visions of tiny playground Trinnies and Suzannas telling her she needs to wear a spring palette, avoid horizontal stripes and ditch the hippy-chick name.

Anyway, not sure where it has all come from, but I am trying not to feel affronted. Hoping that by being a bit non-committal (i.e not calling her by her adopted name, whatever it turns out to be) she might come back round to being Maia again.

Either that, as she is a determined little soul, cross fingers that she sticks with names that I could possibly have chosen for her. Weird how evocative names are. Weird how much as I feel so attached to that name, even if she isn't at the moment. I remember how it felt just right when we hit on this one. We did lose our nerve at the first application for a birth certificate and omit the "Sunshine".... went back a week later and re-registered her to put it in - the name didn't feel right without it.

Ho hum. We will see. Her cartoon of choice at the moment is SpongeBob Squarepants. Maybe the kid will out do even us and give herself a really....ummm.... distinctive name.

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