The name was selected long before the brown one came. When I finally looked up the name the night before meeting her, I found out it meant "ball" or "circle" in Japanese. Whaat?... I was totally disappointed. After all, Haruki meant "sunshine, radiance". So, I had a back-up name, Reiko which meant lovely, beautiful child...and I was warming up to this new two-syllable name.
But, when I saw my girl for the first time, awww.... I knew she was a "little Mariko".
So, Mariko she was...
of course, it wasn't smooth-sailing thereafter....
Like calling Haruki, Mariko...and Mariko, Haruki...
Like calling Ruki, Riko and Riko...Ruki.
Maruki?
Hariko?
or calling Mariko, Haruk as a short name
and Haruki, Marik as a short name
Good girl to Ruki...
Good boy to Riko...
To make matters worse, since I have one of each...
for attention, I can't shout out BOYS!!!! or GIRLS!!!!
so, I call out KIDS!!!
No wonder they often look confused with all this name-calling.
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