Name is official

Last night over dinner at our favorite mexican place, we, as a family, decided on Shan Wei Feng's new name. Our daughter's name will be: Alyssabelle Weifeng Lasecki.

Here's the story - Brad and I can't agree on names at all. We each came up with a multitude of names only for the other to shoot it down - examples, Sophia, Jade, Isabelle, Kaylee, Jaden, Zoey, it goes on and on. Anyways, the only names we could agree on were Alyssa and Belle or Bella. Brad and I both like Belle and Bella but I thought it was more of a nickname than an adult name so we combined Alyssa and Belle to create Alyssabelle.

We also wanted to keep her given name for several reasons. 1) she's 2 and she knows her name. 2) we wanted her to have something to hold on to for when she's older if she chooses. 3) this may be one of the first things she was given and the only thing she may have when she comes to us; how can we take this from her? In China, the last name is the first name (Feng). We are still unsure if they are calling her simply Feng or our agency thinks they may be calling her Weifeng. So we took a vote at dinner and it was unanimously (children and parents both) that her middle name be Weifeng.

So again - the pics are on the left and let us introduce you to Alyssabelle Weifeng Lasecki.