baby at work

[flea]

Born Tuesday, to coworker Kelsy and her husband who is nameless as far as my awareness of him goes, a girl, Lucy Beatrice.

I love Beatrice. Beatrix, too. And Bee/Bea as a nickname. (Greenchick, it occurs to me that you were thinking of Aunt Bea and Andy Griffith. I was thinking of Aunt Bee and Josephine Tey's Brat Farrar. Clearly I have not lived in the south long enough.)

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[zmayhem.livejournal.com]

Beatrice and Beatrix are both lovely names. I think I may have tried (and failed) to sell Hec on them at some point. There's a woman at the Faire whose character name is Beatrice, but she uses the nickname Bix -- also cute as can be, plus bonus points for being a prominent jazz name.

If her poor dad really has no name, I propose he be promptly christened Bix.

[gchick.livejournal.com]

You are correct -- I was thinking of the Andy Griffith Aunt Bea, and I'll just add that for however long the child lives in North Carolina, so will absolutely everyone else.

"Bix" is lovely for either (any?) sex, and I'd never heard it before except for Beiderbecke. I know one Beatriz who uses "Tiz", which I also love.

[susanw.livejournal.com]

That's such a lovely name, though I have to confess I like Lucy better than Beatrice. Lucy was on our long list for Annabel, though I doubt we'll bring it back if we reproduce again. Since Annabel's name honors all her grandparents BUT my dad, we're committed to using an element of his name (Kelly Edmon) for any future child, which would probably mean Edmund for a boy's first or middle and Kelly for a girl's middle, since there's really no feminine form of Edmund. Which is all a longwinded way of saying that Lucy is a last name but Lucy Kelly is way too sing-song and rhymey. It's more likely to be something like Eleanor Kelly or Josephine Kelly.

[susanw.livejournal.com]

"Lucy is a last name"

What a bizarre brain fart! I think I meant to say Lucy was a fine name or a pretty name or somesuch, so I don't know how my fingers typed "last." Need more sleep or caffeine or something.

[gchick.livejournal.com]

Huh. Fine -> First -> Last?

Or maybe you're right and it's the caffeine thing.