Babies' names...

In an effort to lift my spirits, Joe took me out for dinner last friday night. Instead of going to downtown, we decided to venture out to Kanata. We live in Barrhaven, so Kanata is only 15 mins away from our home. We avoided Hwy 417 and drove along the backroad.

We drove along Eagleson and Hazelden aimlessly for about 15 mins and finally decided to go to Jack Astor's for dinner.

The food was amazing. We tried out the summer dinner menu. I had a blue cheese burger and Joe had the asian wraps. After two lemon icebergs (cold draft beer topped with lemon zest ice mixture... and it is really yummy! I am more a wine person than a beer person, but I must admit that this lemon iceberg is good!), I began to feel relaxed and I started to forget about my broken toe and the sad news about my grandmother for a moment there...

Dinner conversation was light and funny and one thing lead to the other, Joe and I were discussing about babies' names. There has always been a long discussion about what to name our kid, when (not if) we have a kid one day. Perhaps it was the effect of the lemon iceberg... we, as a couple, have decided the following names for our kids:

If we have a boy -- Baden Noah Joseph Vautour

If we have a girl -- Bethany Priscilla Pang-Vautour

Last night, out of curiosity, I goggled the origin of "Bethany" and here is what I found:
"The girl's name Bethany \b(e)-tha-ny\ is pronounced BETH-a-nee. It is of Hebrew origin. Possibly means "house of figs". Biblical: the name of the village near Jerusalem where Jesus stayed during Holy Week, before going on to Jerusalem and crucifixion. From the New Testament description of life in the house, the name has rather domestic, cozy connotations. The name is popular with Roman Catholics, being bestowed in honor of Mary of Bethany, sister of Martha and Lazarus"

As for the origin of "Baden"... Joe was very involved with Scouts when he was a kid, and he decided to name our kid (if it is and only if it is a boy) after the Founder of the World Scout Movement, Chief Scout of the World, Robert Baden-Powell!