Mike and Leigh's UnBlog

10.06.06

First, Happy Birthday to Sister (soon-to-be-aunt) Susan and "Break A Leg" to Leigh who opens tonight as Peter Pan.

It's been a couple of days since I updated this thing, in part bacause we don't have much new information, but more because we've been so busy.

We sent the characters for Mary's given name, Yuan Hui Shan, to be translated by someone with great resources and knowledge of how the characters work together in different dialects to form the meaning of the name.The first character "Yuan" is technically her last name. She is named after the Yuan River in Hunan, but most everyone from there shares that name.

The second character "Hui," is a noun that means virtue, kindness, benefit and favor.

The third character "Shan" is very common and is literally defined as "coral" but is used to signify beauty and grace in a girl's name.

Although we will not use her entire name, it is pronounced Yan (as in Dan), We (as in Pee) Shaan (as in James Caan).

We intend to use Hui Shan, which can actually be written as one word (Huishan) as her middle name - officially translated to mean "Virtuous and Graceful" or "Graceful Virtue." Either way, it reminds me of Leigh.

posted by Michael Fresina @ 7:19 AM