Our baby girl is finally here! We’re enjoying every second of having a new addition in the family and thrilled we’ve been able to share pictures of Ariah already. It’s been even more amazing to say her name while looking at her face and feel my heart almost explode with emotions. Uttering her name will likely mean many things to me over the years, but it’s the story of how we chose Ariah and what it stands for that will always remain consistent.
Naming Ariah was a bit different than when we named Aden. I had always known that I wanted Aden to be my son’s name, and since Adam began with an A as well I wanted to keep our family tradition alive of starting my childrens’ names with the same letter. So it worked out that before Adam and I were even married we stumbled across a shop named Araya. I stopped and immediately told him I loved the name and wanted that to be my future daughter’s name. It was and is such a beautiful name. The only catch was that I wanted to spell her name phonetically, so people wouldn’t mess it up and call her a-RAY-ya.
We entertained other names like Arriana and Aliana after I became pregnant, but I always came back to loving Ariah and ultimately committed to the perfect name for our baby girl. Her middle name, Talea, is a name I’ve adored for some time that ironically was going to be used in a friend’s future book as a character inspired by me. It wasn’t until after we had decided on Ariah Talea Housley that Adam and I learned the origin and meaning of both names–they couldn’t be more appropriate for a family like ours whose faith is so very strong. Both Hebrew names, Ariah means Lion of God and Talea means one who resembles the morning dew of Heaven. We couldn’t have found names with a better meaning if we had tried.
Holding her in my arms every day I know we chose right. We are so elated (though exhausted) to have a beauty and healthy baby girl. We are truly appreciative of all of our family, friends and fans for their blessings. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Can’t wait to share more about her as she continues to grow and warm our hearts.
Xx, Tamera
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Congrats, Tamera…I love the meanings of the names. May God bless your little ones always. Name meanings are so important. By the way, I think you and your sis should do a kid’s clothing line since you are two stylish mommies. :-)
This poor child will spend a great deal of her life spelling and pronouncing her name. Big mistake. she’ll resent her parents. Seen it 100s of times.
Go take a nap! Your negative comments are not needed here! With your fake name! Nancy Drew lol
This poor kid will spend half her life spelling and pronouncing her name. Big mistake. See it all the time. Not negative just true.
This poor child will spend a great deal of time pronouncing and spelling her name for others. Big mistake. she’ll resent her parents for it. I’ve seen it 100s of times.
Not a big deal.
yeah it is.
Pretending Drew, you just hate that these beautiful kids parents are black/ white. Why not try it yourself.
I don’t hate their parents. They just chose stupid names.
You need to watch the million man march!
Why? so 10 years ago.
Nancy you have a serious problem? Are you jealous? Ignorance is a terrible thing. Make yourself happy, it goes so much further.
Be Happy!
I am happy. That poor child won’t though. Godawful name.
well congratulations on your baby girl I’m so happy you had a little girl
as you know what’s going on and we all know is going on and your blood type and my blood type of you meet my mother and I just want to be able to get to know you guys are and hopefully me and Tyrese Gibson give you have a baby in a bus but anyways I should be coming in shortly