August 20, 2008
Hooptie
Thanks again to Mark for taking a great picture. I hate ripping off pics, and I'm ready for Mark to knock on my door and say, "Uh, hey, quit ripping off my pics!"
I love the challenge of painting something as symmetrical and reflective as a car. I see lots of imperfections, but I wanted it to look like a painting still. It's more 'washy' than my other Southside pics, maybe cuz I'm running out of time! Eep!
And seems the comments are messed up, so I'll just feel your comments, good or bad, telepathically. Of course this image is on flickr and facebook, you guys might hunt me down there. I know I had plenty of well-wishings about Tessa, just not here. Dern Moveable Type 4, your cramping my virtual social life!
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August 18, 2008
Becoming Familiar
This is our second daughter. She weighs less than a pound right now. We're going to name her Tessa. Joel picked out the name Tess, and I like the "a" at the end. The name means 'harvest', we really like that. I still have to get used to it. That's why I probably haven't spilled the name earlier. But since we've been scouring baby websites and books looking for names and nothing really goes very well with our last name and our two other kids names like Tessa does. Joel named Josiah as well, and I had to get used to that name. Of course it's hard for me to remember that because to me Josiah has been Josiah for over 6 years. I do remember us strolling down a lovely Norwegian road in the springtime and Joel saying, "I like the name Josiah" and I said,"Really??" I named Eden, always have loved that name, I still love everything it brings to mind. So that was easy.
We still don't have a middle name picked out, I'd like to find another Scandinavian middle name for Tessa. Eden's middle name is Berit which means splendid or glorious. There are some really neat Scandinavian names, like Silje(sil-ya), Astrid, Solvi, Mette (met-ta). If you guys like any of those for your baby girl you can have it *smile*.
I kinda have this tug to pick something more unusual, but when it comes to my third, and this go around I feel it's important to have a name that this child can grow up and become an ambassador to South Africa or something. I'm sure everyone will say "I know a Tessa!..." I do know at least one, my fellow artist Laura Pettit's oldest daughter is Tessa.
Josiah still wants to call her "Little Tree" which I think is perfect. Believe me I've looked for names with that meaning too.
