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Her name is..........

Britan Rae! Sounds like (Great) Britain! I have been guarded about her name because we have told people that ask and we have had mixed reactions....weird looks....awkward silence, which tells me that its definitely a different name and that is EXACTLY what were going for.

Of course her big brother and daddy have the initials BRD, so we wanted to stick with the theme. And as for those who wonder why not my initials well we have reasons for that too....1st of all if I used my middle name then my initials would be ADD and with the profession I am in, I don't care for her to have those initials, granted if she ends up with ADD (like me) then we will deal with that, but I would rather not give her a head start. Then if I use my maiden name in the middle it would be ACD, which when I say it I automatically think ACDC! So no to that too!

I have realized that when I search the name it is mostly for a boy, but we would not have named a boy this only because when I hear Brit with An at the end, I don't think boy, I think pretty and different! When I was searching I learned it has not been in the top 100 baby names since 1993 and that is how we want it, nothing too common and nothing like Brittany or Bethany or Brianna (not that there is anything wrong with those names, we just wanted different and unique).  And as soon as I said it several weeks ago Brooks immediately liked it, so since we agreed right away we think its meant to be.

We have struggled with the spelling, but a good friend suggested we leave out the last i (Britain) and I love it like that! Also, (here we go with my numbers game) Brooks, Alysha, and Bryson all have 6 letters and so does Britan, so there ya go, its PERFECT!!!! I would love to throw a y in there instead of the i because I am partial to y's, but I just can't make it sound grammatical correct, so we will learn to love the i just as much as the y!!!!!

So there you are, she has a name and has had even before we knew she was a girl (actually we couldn't settle on a boy name, but this one was easy). We are very PROUD to be the parents and sister of Miss Britan Rae Derting coming in August!!! :)

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