I was reading something on LiveJournal yesterday that might make you change your mind about thinking a boy is easier. Here is why:
Mame:
Phoenix is a natural object?
This could’ve been written by me. Seriously. When I heard we were having a girl is like “Whaaa??? Are you joking?”
But now I have the sweetest little almost 7 month old girl - and I wouldn’t have it any other way. (Of course the extremely high pitched and loud squealing is going full force, but still! 
) She’s so cuddly and sweet and all I wanna do is play with her!
And for the pink thing - didn’t like it either. Desparately wanted people buying her clothes not to buy all pink (which of course I got a ton of anyway). And wouldn’t you know it - the color she looks best in - is pink.
Wow, I didn’t mean to spark a name debate! Its hard to think of something that a child will be comfortable with into adulthood. I hate my first and middle name. Mouse_Spouse and I are trying to come up with something decent. We both have name we like, the overlap is small.
My favorite names:
Cassandra
Alice
Ivy
Eleanor
Rosalind
Ada
Sophia
Cecilia (Hopefully she’d be like the Great Master. I can’t get the Simon and Garfunkel song out of my head! 
)
To avoid starting another thread. Here’s a rant to wrote about Mother & me. Just venting.
Where’s my whip and chair?
Ok, Mother and I had an intense fight earlier this month. It ended with me telling her, “My relationship with you is out of courtesy, not necessity. If you do anything to harm me or my husband, I’ll slap you with a restraining order so hard the county seal will be on your forehead.” Amazingly, Mother backed off after that – temporarily.
Ah, the joys of a dysfunctional family.
Yesterday, I sent an email to friends and family – Mother and Brother – telling them the news. Now Mother is pushing for a baby shower.
“I’d like to have a shower and invite my friends from church.” Mother told me.
Oh boy, here we go again. :rolleyes: When Mosue_Spouse and I were planning our wedding, Mother wanted to have a bridal shower with her church friends and to invite them to the wedding itself. I have nothing against these people, I just don’t know them, and inviting them to a function were gifts are given strikes me as very tacky and inconsiderate. Especially since Mother’s church serves a poor community.
I stalled for time. “Let me think about it and get back to you, ok?”
In my limited knowledge of etiquette, I think that a friend is supposed to host a baby shower. A family member doing so is considered a breach of protocol. My two closest friends have had emergencies recently and I don’t want to add to their stress. Also, I hate being the center of attention. If there isn’t a shower, I’d be fine with that.
Tomorrow, I’ll call Mother and tell her my decision. “Mother, I’m not comfortable with you hosting a shower and inviting your friends. When a shower is planned, I’ll let you know.”
Looks like I’m gonna have a fight on my hands this weekend. bleh
Those are all gorgeous names. With all the little Madisons and Addisons and Jaelyns and Jaydens running around, a little Alice or Rosalind (or any of the other names you listed) would be an absolute delight.
Mouse_Maven, I like your name list. If either you or your husband are computer geeks, Ada would be great - maybe even add Grace as a middle name.
Spouse is the computer guy. 
I’m a small-time biologist and strange history buff - not many people think about computing in the 1800’s.
(My beloved’s education is in computer programing and business. I work in academic medical research. Want to start at fight? Bring up education or medical funding/insurance in our house.)
I like all the names on your name list. I love Ada (just make sure her middle initial isn’t S).
Am I the only one whose stereotype of a Heather is a blonde Valley Girl bimbo? If you have to give her Heather as a name, make it her middle name.
Definitely not Kaylee- too trendy. There are a couple of problems with a too-trendy name. When you’re in school, you’ll often have another person in class with your first name. My sister Jennifer (born 1977) had that problem. I don’t know if she minded, but I always thought I was a little better off than she was because there was never anyone else with my same first name in my class. When you get older, it makes it quite obvious, within a few years, just how old you are. A lot of older women don’t like to have their age be so easily guessable.
Mouse_Maven:
But Ada was someone who did! What a perfect combination of both your interests, plus it’s on your short list of names you like!
Absolutely. I wanted a girl but I got Dominic. And I can’t imagine having any other firstborn than Dominic. Yes, I’d like to have a girl someday, but all of that goes out the window when you fall in love with that little baby.
Except I don’t think it worked like that with my mom. I think she resented my not being born a boy until I had a child of my own (a boy).
I’m gonna chime in with the recommendations against Kaylee. Imagine going to a lawyer someday and seeing the nameplate on the desk: “KAYLEE SMITH” … it just makes you think of a little girl, not of a capable adult.
I say this as someone with a sister named Kaely. My dad got remarried after I did, and had 5 more kids. I really don’t like any of their names: Christian, Caleb, Bailey, Michaela (Kaely) and Kindall. Every time they had another baby and told me what they’d named it, I cringed 
My sister Kaely probably won’t run into the problem of being a lawyer, as she has Down Syndrome, but it will still make her sound like a little girl all her life.
Sophia Cassandra S. seems like the perfect combination…
Hee. I pronounced my name (Gwendolen) as Winowin. 
My head snaps up when I hear the word “winnowing”, which isn’t often.
Sophia? I like it but be prepared for at least three others in her class. Too trendy. Eleanor is surprisingly trendy too, and she would get the misspellings all her life.
Wow, I don’t mean to be so negative about these pretty names! :smack:
Its ok. Naming is tougher than I thought. Mouse_Spouse would like to use a Celtic name. Some of them look beautiful, but I have no clue how to say them and they’re hard to spell!
I’d avoid those kind of names. Sets the kid up for a lifetime of people not being able to pronounce or spell their name.
Yes, I went to school with a Siobhan. Not only did no one know how to spell her name, it sounded very much like a popular brand of margarine. The one that got into trouble with Mother Nature.
Well, so much for my suggestion of Qwghlm for a name.
Excellent choice. Easy to spell, euphonious, traditional, uncommon but not weird …
I’m not biased at all. Nosiree.
I like Alice, too. I can tell you as the current Mom of littlish kids, I have yet to run into an Alice in any of their classes.
Whatever name you pick, make sure you have a good solid reason for picking it, because eventually s/he (and I’ve seen ultrasounds be wrong, too, so don’t paint the nursery pink just yet) will wanna know, “Why did you name me that?” out of simple curiosity.
So you’ll need to have a good reason handy: “We named you after your Great-Aunt Kathleen because she was a wonderful woman and she had such a good time dancing at our wedding, and we changed it a bit to Caitlin.” “We named you after Rebekah in the Bible because we thought she was a good role model for young women.” “We named you Faith because it’s a nice old-fashioned name, and no, we did not name you after Faith Hill.”
My BIL and his wife named their son Seneca Ryan Goose. And we said, “Oh, how interesting, Seneca the Roman senator.”
And they said, “No, it’s Seneca Ryan after Seneca Ryan on Ryan’s Hope.”
And we said, “Oh.” And there was a long pause, during which we didn’t really know what else to say.
not the real soap opera, the names have been changed to protect the guilty, but you get the idea