HER NAME?

Oh we need to make this real and official in our hearts!!! What will we name this child?? You would think after having a girl name picked out for seven years it would be a piece of cake? OH NO!! We can’t use our girl name, Jeremy says that she doesn't look like Reagan Olivia ….so we asked for a little help. Even though Peyton was set on, the BIG Brother had all the rights to name his little sister….. Chyna was his top pick and we didn't think that was going to be it. I could here the jokes now. 

Here are the suggestions of what her sweet face looked like from FB friends.........…Olivia, Paisley, Rose, Faith, Lainey, Chyna Faith, Emmaline, Lola, Katie, Trinity, Shiloh, River, Bella Rose, Molly, Jules, Brinleigh

After much back and forth on what she would be called for the rest of her life, we decided on Bella for the first name. We agreed and it was a name that we had liked even before. A few weeks earlier my sweet sister surprised me and put out our first donation bucket at her job and put across the top “Baby Bella” I guess it was meant! Now what in the world would I put with it? I found myself lost in baby name websites for days, I know silly right? But I needed to know her, claim her, name her! So I came across this name that caught my eye because of it's spelling. It had a capital K and L in it, my name does also. “KaLare” it was pronounced Claire but spelled differently and since my name is LaKasha I knew that was the closest I could ever name my daughter after myself. LOL 

So it was! Bella KaLare Strickland

I talked to God a lot that day about if I was making the right choice? I asked him like he’s not leading me anyway HA…. He showed me that her name was beauty and clarity and I knew he was happy with it. 

Beauty, with her imperfections. Clarity, within her mind with out delays. I speak these things over her daily.

Her Chinese name now is Jiang, Xin Qian. So I feel that we will include a piece of that somewhere in her name come birth cert time. Well see and let yall know!!