Well, eventually she was born. And she looked just like Lucas! I couldn't name her for almost 3 days because she just looked like a Lucas! (It also took us 3 days to name him; I swear, I'm the most indecisive person you will probably meet.) Of course, it did have something to do with the "preemie look" where they all kinda look alike... but still. I tried holding her the first day - I figured I would *know* then - but, no. She just looked like a boy!
It literally came down to rolling dice! We had 5 names that we liked, so I wrote a name on each side of a die except for the 5 side (because the dots take up the most space on that side). Levi and I were sitting in the hospital room one night trying to roll dice to come up with a name. We couldn't come up with a good system, so we decided to play Yahtzee and if one of us rolled a Yahtzee, we would use that name that was written on the number rolled. For example, if we rolled all 2s, we would use the name written on the "2" side. Well, one of us rolled a Yahtzee... and we rolled it with 5s! Yeah. Apparently Heavenly Father didn't approve of our daughter-naming method LOL!
Obviously, we eventually decided on Olevia, but it took a little while! The other names we liked were Remington, Peyton, Avery, and Lucy. We also then had to decide on her official middle name. We knew we wanted to use "Dawn" (my mother-in-law's name), but I also liked the idea of hyphenating Remington-Dawn. I got complaints that Oleiva Remington-Dawn Christiansen would be too long. I think they were right! Lucas also only has one middle name, which starts with a D as well, so we just stuck with one middle name: Dawn.
So, that is kind of how Via got her name!
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