Yes. . . they are all "A's"

Yes, irritatingly enough for the rest of the family, all of my girls' names begin with the letter "A." It started with Alia, my oldest, 7 going on 17. We had originally begun with the name Kayla, but as we were looking at the big book of baby names one kept jumping out to us-Alia. We both liked the sound and the spelling, we call her Lia for short. Everyone else loved the name as well, it was beautiful and unique. When she was a little over a year old we discovered that she was going to have a sibling. Ok, so maybe we were a little naive thinking that we would have a boy now that we had our girl. So this baby was called Marshall Ryan, at least until month 7 of the pregnancy when I mentioned to Daddy that maybe we should pick out a girl's name. "Ok," he says, "We have Alia, if we have another girl she should have an 'A' name as well-Alexis." That was easy, needless to say on July 31st at 10:30 p.m., after only 30 minutes of labor(yes you read that right, 30 minutes, she was ready), Alexis Rae made her entrance into the Lewis household. Fast forward to 2004, Alia is 3, Alexis was turning 2 that year, and once again, 2 pink lines showed up on that little stick thing:-) So of course we held on to the name Marshall, that is until we had the ultrasound. . . "I'm sorry Mr. and Mrs. Lewis, but I don't see anything indicating a boy in this image." So we figured since we had 2 "A's" already that we may as well make them the "triple A's." Allison Rose was born on October 6th, 2004, 1 week overdue, she still makes us late for everything, go figure. She is also the boss, now 3 years old, she is 2 1/2 feet of pure mayhem. Trust me, she does not back down for anything! So now we have 3 girls, Daddy is starting to worry, what is going to happen to him in 14 years, where will he go when the estrogen is flowing, don't worry hon-they make padded rooms for that! We had never talked about having a big family but next July I had the same familiar symptons, another trip to Wally-world confirmed that we were to again make an addition to the family. We were getting used to the question, "What are you going to do if its another girl?" Well what were we supposed to do? Sell her on ebay? Trade her for the boy in the next room? Were they serious? Of course we would accept her, well that is. . . unless she had Allison's attitude. Suddenly ebay was looking more promising! We were blessed with Alyssa Rylie on March 21, 2006. She was the most mello of them all, and still is, content to play and smile at her sisters, no doubt taking notes as for what to do and what not to do! 3 months later, we again were looking at expanding our family. This time no one asked the girl question, this time it was, "What are you going to do if you have a boy?" To this day I really don't know what I would have done if she had been a boy. I had been surrounded by pink for 7 years now. Dresses, hairties, pretty dress-up shoes, pierced ears, I think I would have gone into complete and utter shock, become a basketcase if I was told I was having a boy. Hubby would have found me in the corner after attempting to change the first diaper, shaking, pointing, shrieking, "What is it, honey, what's wrong with our baby?" Ok, so it wouldn't have been that bad, but potty-training? By this time we were really running out of "A" names, we had resorted to interet searches, instead of the big baby name book. Nothing looked or sounded right. Hubby had always like Aliza, you know, Eliza with an "A?" I wasn't crazy about it, sounded too old-fashioned to me. He had liked it ever since we had been looking for Allison's name, but couldn't convince me to use it. I liked Alaina, he said "absolutely not!" This went on until about 8 months into the pregnancy. I finally told him that we could use Aliza if I could use the middle name I wanted to use for Alyssa. I had always liked the middle name Riann. So we compromised and Aliza Riann arrived on Good Friday, April 6th, 2007. That is the story of the five "A" names that grace our family tree. Don't get me wrong there are times when I do regret it, like when I have to put their initials on things-what was I thinking-A.R.L! Or when I'm in a hurry, and I'm trying to get them in the car, and we're buckling carseats and throwing doors open, "Alia, lock the door and get in the car!" "I'm not Alia, Mom! I'm Alexis!" Ok, "Lexi, don't take that from you sister," "I not Wexi, I Awwison!!" This is my life-thanks to our joint obsessive-compulsive tendency to name all of our children with the "A" names!