My Baby's Name

This is one of the things which parents need to put alot of thought in it.

"Will this be meaningful enough or will his name be a tease among his peers?"

The english name is alot more simple to choose. As long as both parents like it and is not too common, the name is pretty much set. At least for us lar. Hence, we picked Jayden. We decided the name even before I got preggy. Couples will usually have discussion about their future together and this is one of the topics we talked about. One day we were watching a movie and one of the kid in the movie was called Jaden. Both of us immediately love it. I wanted to add the "y" in the name so that it has some similarity of my idol. hehe... those who knows me will understand that. ;p

Chinese name is the difficult part. My in laws are very easy going with it so no chinese name also ok. For me, I couldn't settle for just Jayden. He must have a chinese name so he knows his roots and be part the chinese culture. I don't know, I can't really explain it. If anyone has the same thinking let me know why.

We search and search and search for month and nothing. I didn't do anything to help cause I can't read or write chinese so I leave this to my hubby. He came out with a few options but nothing seems to sound just right. We didn't have the "yes this is the one" feeling. You know, is that feeling you have that you are just so sure. Like how sure you are to get married or something like that. As he goes on and on over thousand words, we asked ourselves what is it that we want for our son. What is the most important character you want him to have as a person? What do you want your son turn out to be?

We both name out 2 things on top of our list. Luckily we think alike. ;)
We want our son to be a kind person and wise. Able to use his intelligents to help others and be joyful about it. This did really helped and we found the name for him. phew! We will announce it privately.

Good to have the name set, is a way for you to visuallised what your child is going to be like. This is called bonding.