I started the post on December 4, 2007 on this forum but I don't know how to bring it forward!!!!!!! Some one who has more computer savey than me will have to help me so I can get it started again. C

Connie, I'm flattered. Lois's Hostal Takeover would be preferred. I'm sure my husband will get a charge out of it too. He has many other phrases that I can't think of now. He chuckles whenever I bring another hosta home. I think he thinks it's cute to see me so possessed by them. I've never been a collector of anything, so this is a new trait for me. I'll see if I can remember his other hosta-isms. Maybe there are more naming possibilities there. Lois

It will be fun to see your hosta babies with their new names. I didn't participate in naming any, I'm just not creative that way, but you got lots of great suggestions. Janet

Before I read down as to what your girl's name suggestion could be, I thought like the others, and said Alana. Then I was blown away when you said Alana! What is your husband's first name? When I was still carrying my son that was stillborn, I was going to name him Justin, then when I learned he had died in utero, I just couldn't name him that, and so we named him after his father. But when I had my daughter the following year, I named her Erica Justine. I never gave it a thought, but months later it occured to me that Justine was the femine "version" I guess you'd say, of Justin. I have no other children, but I feel a part of Erica's brother lives on with her. Good luck with your pregnancy, and let us know what you decide. Carrying on a name in some form is a living memorial to those no longer with us. Emma