Introducing Nova

I'm listening to the rain outside and our little girl breathing lightly as she sleeps. It is music to my ears. I think it's about time I introduce you to her:



November Rain
Wednesday 7 July 2010
at 12:52pm
weight 3.29kg, height 50cm


Now let me explain the name. During the pregnancy my husband and I decided we wouldn't find out the sex of the baby. We started making a list of both girls and boys names to have ready once our little baby was born, complete with middle names too. As for passing on a name, if we had a boy Adam wanted to pass his name on as a middle name like his father did with him. I didn't want to pass on my name, it was MY name! I didn't want to share. ;) But I did want to pass on something about me.

For as long as I can remember, November has been my favourite month in the year and for various reasons. My birthday falls on this month, it's close to the end of the year which is full of family and celebrating, the weather starts to warm up, and my husband and I started dating while back in highschool. And as for Rain, I also just love it! It makes everything look and smell fresh and new, it's relaxing to listen to and feels great on your skin, but most of all it's a blessing and brings life on a parched dry land. It such beautiful imagery!

I have to admit, much to the disbelief of most people who know us, we honestly didn't know that there was a song by Guns n Roses with the exact same name. Absolutely NO CLUE! It was only a few months before she was due that I thought to google her name to see what came up when I was directed to the music video on youtube. But we had already fallen in love with it, and figured that Nova would make for a great nickname anyways. And if she becomes famous she'll already have an awesome name :)

I just absolutely LOVE her! She is such a little blessing and has enriched our lives more than I could have imagined. I just love watching her spend time with her daddy, and all the little smiles she's started giving us are simply amazing.