I Love You

If I could have a nickle for every time I say "I love you" to Eole, we could retire now. I think every parent looks forward to the day when their child says, "I love you" back for the first time. Well, Eole finally said those golden words for the very first time the other day, but she didn't say them to me or to Daniel. We put baby Davyn on her lap and as she gently nuzzled him she said, "I love you, baby Davyn." We couldn't have asked for anything more tender from our little girl than that.

What’s in a name: I think it was either our first or second date when Daniel told me that his first born child would be a girl named Eole. I didn’t argue because a year later, I met the namesake, Eole F. a wonderful woman who lives in Siena, Italy. . Boy names are another story. There is a criterion for boy names that makes it very difficult for us to agree on, well, anything. For three generations, the first-born Pugmire male has been given a first name starting with “D,” and the middle name McKay (which goes back around nine generations). It so happens that there are practically no “D” names we both like enough to name a son. And so, for the past seven years we have casually tried to come up with a suitable name for a first born son. Enter December 21st: the day before we were to find out that we were having a boy. We both assumed we’d have another girl, but then the evening before the ultrasound, I started to panic. What if this was a boy? We’ve got to find a name TONIGHT!! Enter the internet: thank you technology! We like our names to have some family or personal or literature tie, but desperate times call for desperate measures. As I scanned Boy “D” names, one jumped out at me: DAVIN. It sounds so nice, doesn’t it? And I’ve never met anyone with this name (part of my personal criteria). But what does it mean? I can’t just attach a random “D” name to our boy. On further searching, I find that Davin is a derivative of David. That could be fitting seeing as Daniel’s dad’s name is David. Then I see that there is also DAVYN, which is the Welsh form of David. Daniel’s grandmother is Welsh. PERFECT!

And so, here is our Davyn McKay Pugmire, photographed against the McKay Tartan Plaid.

My girl has expensive taste:

While at our local CVS a few days ago, Eole asked if she could have a toy car. She is very into cars and trains because all her little friends are boys. I allowed her to pick out a car from the case: there were fire trucks, school buses, Model T Fords, Mustangs….and what does she reach for? The Yellow Porsche Carrera GT, 1/36 scale. You can own a full scale one, second hand, for a mere $339,000.00. I bought the car, but told Eole that this was the only Porsche I was ever going to buy her.