A little thinking about names :)

We have given each child a fruit of the Spirit as a middle name, we are also considering an attribute of the spirit --- Grace as a middle name too.

We will use their current Chinese names as their second middle name...............

Here are the fruit/attributes that are left for us to consider for the 1st middle name:

Grace/Karis (also Grace)
Joy
Love
Patience
Mercy


For the 1st names, we have run through a lot in our minds.  We already have 2 I's, and 2 S's...............so we were thinking either another I and S (so all the bigs would be I and the littles S) or 2 more with the same letter though they are not close in age.

Family names ----   Elaine (cousin that is currently ill), Great Aunts --- Edie, Elizabeth, Margaret, Mildred, Helen, Althea
Grandma's --- Alice, Dorothy (Dottie), Maude, Mabel, Naomi, Elizabeth
Mom's --- Donna, Betty (not a short for Elizabeth)

Just looking at this list I see Elizabeth as a theme.............we'd already talked about this name as a long version of Betty --- and calling her Betsy.................we also like the short version Eliza

If we went with Elizabeth (God is my oath), another name we like is Elaina (Light) or Eliana (God has answered).

Elaina/Eliana Grace
Elizabeth (Eliza) Joy

Kaitlyn
Karis
Kiana


I believe that will be our girls names................now, which will be which????