Her Name....

It is still so surreal that I am writing posts about our daughter.  We have a daughter! And I stare at her picture everyday, so read to get her home. Yesterday I spent the afternoon in her room organizing all of her clothes that her grandparents have already bought her, she is so loved, and she is going to be so spoiled!!  But, this post is about her name.  We are not allowed to share her ET name until she is legally ours and home, but we can tell you the name we are going to give her.  Aaron and I both feel strongly about changing her name and giving her a new identity as a daughter, as God did many times throughout scripture for his children.  We are still trying to find out the meaning of her ET name, because we will be keeping it as part of her middle name. Because of her age, her name is a part of who she is and is a connection to her culture and we don't want her to lose one of the few things she has from her home country.  The name that we have chosen to give our baby girl is:
Ryah Grace!
You would think that after waiting 2.5 years we would have the name ready to go, just waiting for a face, but we didn't.  We could not agree on anything we came up with, even when we saw her face, we still weren't agreed.  So we kept tossing around ideas, and I remembered that I liked the name Ryah.  When we looked up the meaning, we knew this was meant to be our daughters name.  Ryah means "flowing" in greek, so her name means "flowing grace", which we thought was very meaningful and appropriate for her little life and our journey to her in itself. We are already praying that her life will be a testimony to this name, and we thank God for giving her to us! We finally have a face and a name to be praying specifically for and we are overjoyed! Please keep praying for our paperwork from here on out- things are being translated and we are praying for a quick court submission and date! I will leave you with a picture of the sweetness of our girls little arms and legs- we can't post identifying pictures but I can show you her adorable hands!