Tuesday, February 20, 2007

How we came out with the name


This is the picture of Nadia, 9 days old with Aidan, the teddy bear

We finally came out with the agreement for the second child's name, AIDAN. Since it is not Arabic or Indonesian name, we agreed that we will put a middle name Omar. We both like the names. Thanks God, since when we were pregnant with Nadia, we didn't have any boys name at all.

Ammar got baby shower on Nadia's birth from his office and he got this cute little teddy bear, and we thought she will like the teddy bear so much, so whenever she goes, this teddy bear always comes with her. Sari brought Nadia to her friend's house and she has 3 girls, the oldest, Syifa who was 6 years old who loves Nadia so much asked me for the name of the teddy bear. I said he doesn't have the name. Her mother asked her to name the teddy bear, she came out right away with the name AIDAN. We asked why Aidan ? She said it's Nadia's name, spelled backwards. We both thought it was so smart of her.
Eversince we brought teddy bear Aidan wherever we went, even when we went to Hawaii, but when we moved to Michigan, and we brought this teddy bear to the mall and Nadia dropped it and we lost teddy bear Aidan.

Aidan is so popular namer recently. Everywhere there is Aidan. Ammar was still not sure about the name, but we both loves the name, and it is perfect because we only wants 2 kids, so the flipped names are nice. People thought it was really cool, too to have a backward spelling of names of both kids. They usually didn't think about it until we told them how we got the name. One day, we went to Luca's birthday party, right before Nadia and Sari went to Indonesia, and Ammar talked to the father of Luca's friend, Aidan, and he told Ammar how he loves the name and it went to Pottery Barn catalog, means the name is so popular... so Ammar finally decided, Aidan it is. Yay.. Sari was happy.

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