It seems to me that the single most significant word that will repeatedly resound in a persons’ life will be their name. Prior to pregnancy I can remember naming a pet rat, Strados (St-ra-dough-s), later in life after participating in several climbing first ascents, I’ve helped to name these rock and alpine routes. Not a lot of preparation for naming a human being.
The criterion for our naming our baby was something, unique, significant, and easily adaptable for nick-names. We chose Aurora McCune Dickerson. McCune is Shannon’s maiden name which she has been very reluctant to relinquish. When we were married she dropped her middle name Margaret and replaced it with McCune. She still uses and confuses people with McCune Dickerson as her full last name. I have committed to changing my name to from Daniel Abram to Abram McCune, and am just waiting for the extra $100 to make it official. We have decided to use McCune as the middle name and Dickerson for the last name for everyone in our family, the both of us contributing to the constitution of our family.
Aurora has a strong association with light. Aurora Borealis are natural colored light displays in the polar regions and are caused by collisions of charged particles in the earths atmosphere, they are very beautiful. Aurora is Latin for Dawn, and refers to the Roman equivalent of Eos, the ancient Greek Goddess of the dawn. Dawn is the twilight before sunrise. It is recognized by the presence of soft light, while the sun itself is still below the horizon and should not be confused with sunrise, the moment when the leading edge of the sun itself appears above the horizon.
Aurora was born at 6:10am on Friday May 16, 2008, sunrise that morning was at 5:26am so technically she was born just following the dawn however the pushing process of her entrance into this world occupied a beautiful dawn morning in a lovely cottage adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the beautiful Northwest.
Aurora is “aurorable” with her soft features, she has my nose and her mothers fingers, and perfect little chin. Her, peeps, mutters, and cries have earned her the title “Roarie”. She is perfect, our little “Rora”.
The criterion for our naming our baby was something, unique, significant, and easily adaptable for nick-names. We chose Aurora McCune Dickerson. McCune is Shannon’s maiden name which she has been very reluctant to relinquish. When we were married she dropped her middle name Margaret and replaced it with McCune. She still uses and confuses people with McCune Dickerson as her full last name. I have committed to changing my name to from Daniel Abram to Abram McCune, and am just waiting for the extra $100 to make it official. We have decided to use McCune as the middle name and Dickerson for the last name for everyone in our family, the both of us contributing to the constitution of our family.
Aurora has a strong association with light. Aurora Borealis are natural colored light displays in the polar regions and are caused by collisions of charged particles in the earths atmosphere, they are very beautiful. Aurora is Latin for Dawn, and refers to the Roman equivalent of Eos, the ancient Greek Goddess of the dawn. Dawn is the twilight before sunrise. It is recognized by the presence of soft light, while the sun itself is still below the horizon and should not be confused with sunrise, the moment when the leading edge of the sun itself appears above the horizon.
Aurora was born at 6:10am on Friday May 16, 2008, sunrise that morning was at 5:26am so technically she was born just following the dawn however the pushing process of her entrance into this world occupied a beautiful dawn morning in a lovely cottage adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the beautiful Northwest.
Aurora is “aurorable” with her soft features, she has my nose and her mothers fingers, and perfect little chin. Her, peeps, mutters, and cries have earned her the title “Roarie”. She is perfect, our little “Rora”.
6 comments:
I like that solution to the antiquated name tradition problem. Also, the name Aurora. It's interesting, meaningful, and easy to spell.
Congrats! Great to hear everything went well. Keep in touch.
Abe and Shannon - your blog is awesome! It is going to help Mom and Dad keep in touch with you while they're gone. We should think about a whole family blog with multiple authors!
I can't wait to meet her!
Aurora also used to be Sage's favorite Disney princess (back when he had a little girl friend who talked about Aurora (sleeping beauty) constantly. Now he prefers Snow White. Sorry.
PS. You guys better be at the family reunion this summer so we can see that sweet baby.
Shannon and Abe!
Congratulations! We were both so touched by what you wrote about Aurora's birth. It's gotten us excited about ours coming soon! (More excited than nervous....)
Can't wait to meet her! We'll be in touch soon!
Shannon-you inspire me! Way to go!
love,
Emily and Ben
(We also have a blog: eecas.blogspot.com)
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