Krees goes Dutch Kiwi!: Names we will NOT be giving our child

South Africa - November 2011

In November 2011 we traveled to South Africa and brought Charles's parents along for the ride. We spent a week in and around Cape Town, a few days near Hartbeespoort and the Cradle of Humankind, a couple days at Pilanesberg National Park, and two days with my friend Stephanie and her family in Pretoria. It was a FANTASTIC trip! There are (currently) 78 photos in this album and don't include some of the great places we visited or people we saw. I may add more as we finish weeding through the approximately FOUR THOUSAND photos we took. Seriously. It was a great trip.

Some of you may be curious what we will be naming the baby. Hell, WE'RE curious what we'll be naming the baby. We now occasionally refer to it as "Scotch," but more often than not it's just "Baby."

While we haven't come to any concrete decisions about what to name it, there are definitely some names we are NOT considering. I know some of these may be crushing to read, but...

If the baby is a boy we will NOT be naming it:

Laquan (American: a combination of the prefix La + Quan)
Torkel (Swedish: Thor's cauldron)
Ronald Reagan ("The Gipper")
Ozzie (English: a familiar form of Osborn, Oswald)
Binky (English: a familiar form of Bancroft, Vincent)
Engelbert (Humptybert Slaptyback, Fats Boomwallah...)
Shangobunni (Yoruba: gift from Shango)
Sting (English: spike of grain. Tolkein: Frodo's sword. And of course, Sting-a-ling-a-ding-dong: former lead singer of The Police!)
Aubergine (eggplant)
Saber (French: sword)
Monkeywrench (you know...monkey wrench)
Alvar (English: army of elves)
Optimus Prime (Cybertron: leader of the Autobots)

If the baby is a girl, she will NOT be called:

Aubergine (last we checked, still means eggplant)
Chastity (Latin: pure. This is a stripper's name.)
Charity (Latin: charity, kindness. See: Chastity)
Unika (American: a form of Unique. Uh-huh.)
Desdemona (Shakespearean: killed by jealous husband)
Aja (Hindi: goat)
Siko (African: crying baby. Why would you do this to yourself?)
Ronaele (Greek: the name Eleanor spelled backwards. Seriously, this was in our baby names book.)
Harmony (after all, we are not hippies)
Gladys (This is an old woman's name.)
Planaria (a lovely word but, sadly, a flatworm)