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HER NAME IS RAMONA!
Daniel:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on October 04, 2006, 06:59:01 am ---Ramona? It was the 257th most popular name in the 1940s, and 241st in the 1960s, but dropped out of the top 1000 in the 1990s. Maybe they are hoping for a celebrity comeback or something. It makes me think of the "Ramona" books (Beezus and Ramona? something like that).
L
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Beatrice and Romana
delalluvia:
Ramona is eech. :P Mona is cool.
Beatrice is only cool if you're the daughter of the Duchess of York. :)
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: Daniel on October 04, 2006, 07:55:25 am ---Beatrice and Romana
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I should trust my aging memory. It is Beezus and Ramona:
In Beezus and Ramona, Beezus, who is just turning ten, finds four-year-old Ramona an exasperating little sister who invites her nursery school friends to an unplanned party, takes one bite out of each apple in the box, and spoils her birthday cake—twice.
I read that Heath and Michelle named Matilda after the Matilda in Roald Dahl's book. Maybe Maggie and Peter are Ramona fans. Beverly Cleary wrote five Ramona books. Beezus and Ramona was the first. For more, see:
http://www.beverlycleary.com/index.html
Leslie
Daniel:
Yeah, Beezus was what everyone called her... I forgot that somehow... probably because she got to the point where she didn't like it anymore. I got "Ramona the Pest" when I was in fourth grade.
ednbarby:
I think Ramona is very pretty. I like old-fashioned names. It's sure as hell better than all those surname/unisex names they're giving girls these days, and a million times better than a fruit.
I work with a woman named Ramona who goes by Mona, as a matter of fact, and we were talking about a month ago about how no one ever names their girls names like ours anymore. I should call her and tell her someone finally did. :)
Will came four weeks early. If she's small, I hope they won't be too concerned. It means nothing. Will weighed 5.0 pounds at birth and was only 18 inches long. He had to be in the NICU for four days because his blood sugar level wouldn't stabilize so they had to give him glucose by I.V.
At 4 1/2, he's off the charts tall for his age (45 inches) and of average weight. He's gonna be taller than his daddy, who's 6 feet tall, if the formula they use at 2 years old is accurate.
Hope it all went as smoothly as possible for her. Your first is so scary because unless you have a scheduled C-section, you just have no idea how it's going to go, and that unknown factor is daunting. It's so nice that her family was all around her. My brothers and parents had zero interest in being with or near me when Will was born. Granted, I was 36 and had been married for 11 years, and they already had multiple grandchildren. My mother would have been there come hell or high water. As it turned out, Ed's sister and parents are the ones who were there. I still think of them as my true family and I always will no matter what happens.
ANYway..., welcome to this place, Ramona. You've been born into an extraordinary family. (And for what it's worth, I think your name is lovely.)
~ Barb, from her hit song "On And On"
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