We are so thrilled to let you know that we welcomed Kalina Clare Bell to our family the morning of May 21st. She was 8lbs 7ounces, 21.5 inches with a slight tuft of beautiful dark hair. She is absolutely stunning and her big sisters (and Mommy, Daddy and everyone) couldn't love her more!
Friends and family know just how hard it is for Dan and I to agree on names for our children. In fact, when I found out we were having a baby my first thought was "How are we going to name another child!?" :-)
I think we read the top 1000 names on the social security list every time we were in the car for more than 30 minutes. Nothing struck us. But we had decided that we wanted to honor our Irish heritage and part of his family's history with the middle name Clare, after his lovely grandmother (all of our grandmother's are incredible and lovely women!) and County Clare in Ireland.
But her first name proved more difficult. In a sea of Irish heritage my grandmother always held strong to her Slovakian roots with food, music and customs. My sister and I were especially eager to share these traditions with her. My talented little sister makes
Pysanky eggs every Easter!
Thus we decided to search Slavick baby names. We came upon Kalina and that was that. And besides, Dan has always begged for alliteration in the girls' names, so even that became a non-issue.
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| 2:30am. I highly suggest going into labor in the morning so you get a full night's sleep to start :-) |
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| Proud Daddy! |
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| Sleeping beauty |
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| Nana introducing the big sister! |
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| Gigi and Ainsley are smitten! |
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| No one can stop looking at her perfect face! |
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| Nana and Pappy couldn't wait to get there! |
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| Pretty in Pink |
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| This girl LOVES her! |
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| So cute! |
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| "Mommy, can you eat a sundae so that Kalina can taste it?" Happy to oblige. |
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| lazy morning before pre-school. Life is sweet. |
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