Family in Feast and Feria

The pregnancy is at 16 weeks tomorrow, and a check-up on Wednesday. Many of our family conversations discuss future names for this child. Since we don't know the gender yet, both types of names are being tossed around.

Ds totally enjoys thinking about the names. He has made some silly jokes, suggesting the use of his name again. We discussed how we are choosing saints' names for the child, and he's really taken this to heart. Many of his names are quite nice and reasonable. He has good taste. ;-)

But yesterday he proposed a name: "I know! If it's a girl, how about Scholastica?"

Hmmm....while I love the saint, I don't think that's a winning combo "Scholastica Miller".

I COULD put much of the blame on Cay and her Catholic Mosaic. After all, The Holy Twins is the recommended title for the feast of St. Benedict.

But that wouldn't be completely true. After all, I love Tomie dePaola, owned that book already, and read it to my son even at a wee age. Cay just affirms what I love about those beautiful books and gives me ample excuse to bring them to the forefront.

It just tickles me to hear a 3 year old suggesting names like Benedict and Scholastica. He's absorbing something from our reading!