Why HC3?

You may have noticed my sign off name on the blog is HC3 tobe.  I've been asked why, what does that stand for?  Well, it's our silly way of referring to our child to be.  The past 8 months haven't been all business and frustration.  We've had fun with the boys discussing possible names.

We learned in our adoption training seminar that it is important to give our child an american name to help him/her fit into our american life.  It is also important to keep her Filipino heritage as well, so we will be using her/his Filipino name as the middle name.  The Philippines does not let you choose the gender so we have to be prepared for a girl or a boy.  The girl name was easy.  We've loved this name since we were expecting Micah but never got a chance to use it.  Choosing a boy name has been a little more challenging, but fun as well.  We've sat at supper with the boys some nights throwing out names and have come up with things such as Jude, Herman, Jonah, Ezekiel "Zeke", and some that were just plain goofy.  It's fun to bond with the boys like this regarding the adoption but in the end, we never did come up with boy name that we are certain of.  We have our ideas but we also have time.

So why HC3? Well, as we were talking about our future child it was confusing to say "he", "his", "her", or just baby?  So, David and the boys came up with HC3, "Hoekstra Child #3".  It's not as cute and personal as an actual name would be, but at least it gives us a way to make "the baby" more of a reality by referring to him or her as HC3.

We look forward to the day that we get the call and are holding the picture of HC3 and say welcome "________________".