Whats in a name--18 weeks

Will this child be Liliana or Mateo. This is Mini me @ 18 weeks.






We have had these names chosen for years now. Liliana being my choice & Mateo a name
we heard while living in California & both liked.
Liliana is my given birth name. A name from my birth mother I presume. I've always liked this name, so different from my own. If I had never made my way to the states by adoption, who would Liliana be? Probably a Spanish speaking women....what else I'm not sure. I want Liliana to be someone I see grow & mature into her own person. What a sweet name, perhaps Lili for short. & Mateo, Spanish for Matthew. Sounds strong to me. Not Matt, maybe Matty to us (as a baby).
These are our choices, this is who we'll all get to meet in about 5 months. :)

V21 Durham- Its Official

January 18th, 2009--64 people arrived to praise God.

The Snow Princess arrived!

Eli cleaning off the car before work:



So I know there is still this New England child living in my body. Cause whenever the talk of snow comes up I get pretty elated. It reminds me of the mornings when my dad would get the early phone calls, he was on the School Board, & he would be in the 'know' of calling off school or making it a delay. I would quietly anticipate the judgement & then knock on my brother's wall if it was what we wanted to hear. Then snow time....well at least when the sun came up. I enjoyed those days, being so cold, you could barely feel your butt & your cheeks so red. Playing all day, sledding, building snow men, making a snow fort (we got a lot of snow, many feet).
Well now 30+ yrs. later I still revel in "snow days" & I'm not even a student. I just lucked out today & don't have to work.

Here I come snow!!