My 2 year old wants my sister to call her baby Boo. No mater how much we tell her that’s not going to happen she doesn’t understand. It’s a really hard age because they know they have a say in what happens to some extent but don’t undertand enough to rationalise why they can’t always have what they want. As they don’t know if it’s a boy or girl we can’t tell her what the baby will be named. Somehow I think the nickname Boo is going to stick.
I wouldn’t choose a name based on what my 2 year old wants. I would stop talking to her about it for a little while (just a few days or a week) and then tell her a story about a princess or a baby name “xyz”. tell her how wonderful it would be to have a baby sister named that and see what happens. Also I do love the idea of blaming the nurse, haha.
If you do love [name]Eilidh[/name] maybe it could be a middle name? [name]Don[/name]'t choose it just because she wants it. Also don’t not have it because you think it’s just what she wants if you really love it (I hope that makes sense!)
This is what I was thinking of as I was reading your original post. I would definitely not let pleasing a 2 year old sway you from another choice that you like more. It’s just a bonus for her if you do end up going with [name]Eilidh[/name]!
My advice would be to name the baby whatever you wish despite your daughter, and maybe just your daughter could use Eiligh as a personal pet name for her sister.
When I was 5, my parents asked me what names I liked for the baby sister I would be getting. I heard the name [name]Cherish[/name] on a TV show, and that’s what I suggested. My parents ended up naming her [name]Mariah[/name] [name]Cherish[/name]. I also went to school with a girl who’s parents told her that her new baby sister’s name was [name]Hannah[/name] and she cried, “But that is my baby doll’s name!” so they changed the baby’s name to [name]Annika[/name].
I doubt your 2 year old is really going to remember how much she loved [name]Eilidh[/name], but she’ll probably appreciate your considering her choice when she is older.
We put the name Leisl on the table (briefly) during [name]Violet[/name]'s pregnancy because [name]Linus[/name] who was train ([name]Thomas[/name] in particular, and poor guy watched a lot of the magic railroad movie when I was sick etc) obsessed loved the character [name]Diesel[/name] 10 and when the older two would expreess the names they would like and try to get a name out of him (2 aand clueless to the whole baby thing) he wpuld reply “[name]Baby[/name] [name]Diesel[/name]” which sounded like Leisl. Anyways, we did consider it for a bit but it wasnt her name. My oldest dd loves the name [name]Lola[/name] and I told her she can name one of her myriad of stuffed animals that name,pretty but not my style.
If you like thename and feel likeit fits your newest addition, then what a cute story to tell your youngest when she is older! But if you do not love it, big sister will be just fine. Once my kids have seen a new baby, they fall in love with it and we say “this is name” and that is that so farno protests.
