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nycnola
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My dad laughed at our name choices....
nycnola
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Last night on the phone my dad asked if we had picked out names. I said Eva for a girl, except its pronounced Ava. My husband is Cuban and we are using the Spanish pronunciation. So my dad says, "OH, EE-va." No, A-va. This goes back and forth for a minute. Why is it so hard? So then my dad says, "And for a boy?" Xavier. And he bursts out laughing! Dad says, "What a weird name! What am I supposed to call him?" I say, His name, Xavier. Dad says, "I'm just going to call your kid Frank." ARGH!!!!
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Re: My dad laughed at our name choices....
What a jerk move on your dads part..I can kind of understand the Eva thing though a lot of people may be calling her "eeva" my cousin named her daughter Elana pronounced Alana but people kept saying "e-layna" I like the name Xavier and dont see the humor in it though..My mom didnt like our boy idea of Dominic.. I had always had Aeralyn set for a girl which she liked it is "unique" but she said dominic wasnt unique enough and when other family members asked I'd say choices and she'd always say "I wish they'd pick something else for a boy" luckily it's not a boy though
GL with the pops! And also, if you guys like the names, who cares?
When my son was born, we told our family the name. My step-mom was horrified and refused to call him Brady. She called him Brad. But her friends said Brady was a great name and all of a sudden, she LOVED the name. Now she tells her friends what a great name he has. Sometimes, it just takes time to get used to a name or feedback from friends saying it's ok.
Even if your dad doesn't like the name- and everyone has different ideas about "good" names, he will get used to it and love the baby. So don't worry!
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I love both of those names.
Your dad sounds like my dad. But, my dad called my little sister "George" for the longest time. It was really weird. It STILL is really weird.... so if he ever decides to call my son/daughter anything other than their name I may have to throat punch him.
DD1 born 5/24/10.
Missed M/C at 14 wks Feb 2012.
DD2 born 5/14/13.
Missed M/C at 9 wks July 2015.
I feel your pain. We are pretty much set on Lola, and my family just flat out said they didn't like it. They were rooting for our other choice, Ruby.
The dislike from our family has gone so far that my mother pretends to forget the name is Lola and instead sub in "Lily" or "Lou Lou." Is this behavior rude and obnoxious? Oh yes it is. Do we let it get to us? Well, sometimes . . . but most of the time we ignore it.
First, this is why we aren't telling our names, see your dad laugh in your baby's face, he couldn't do it! :-) Secondly, I LOVE both those names, so he can just shove it :-)
On a side note, you aren't the first person who has posted about a parent saying "What am I supposed to call it" When confronted with a name they don't like...I just don't get it! Some people (yes even our families) are so rude!
I made a post about this a month ago about how my mother thought she got to help us pick out LOs name and made fun of names we were just thinking of.
It was from that day forward we decided we arent telling the name of LO till LO is born.
My brother did this same thing when I told him what we're naming our little girl. We decided on Jocelyn Mae and for some reason he thinks it sounds "hillbilly" and started laughing hysterically. WTF?!?! I don't get it, but my brother's kind of an A$$ anyway LOL
I'm sorry you're dad was so inconsiderate. For some reason people think that we are all just sitting around waiting for their input and advice...BLEGH!!!