Introducing...

Introducing.....

Isabella Esther Penelope Yoke Lin Wong

and

Sienna Evelyn Abigail Yoke Mae Wong!!

Honestly nicest photo I could get today :p

Funny story...not just one of my funny stories that only I find amusing!When Isabella was born we obviously had her names picked out.Being the dorks we were,when Grandma offered to give Isabella a Chinese name,my first thought was 'that is way too many names for a little girl!'.Yup we said no.In the last few years though Steve and I have really come to realise how important our girls Malaysian and Chinese heritage are to us.We don't really identify with any of the rest of our ethnicities and those are the ones we encourage our girls to be super proud of.So Steve asked his Grandma to chose a Chinese name for each of our girls.When Steve and his siblings  were babies his Granddad chose their Chinese names,unfortunately he is no longer with us.So Grandma went to Europe on holiday jealous much?  asked her sisters for advice (there are 8 of them!).She chose our girls names as they were her Mums names,so our girls Great Great Grandma's names!How cool is that?!
Isabella's one,Yoke Lin (silent e in the Yoke) means Jade Lotus
Sienna's one,Yoke Mae (again,silent e in the Yoke) means Beautiful Jade.

I love them,and Isabella and Sienna love telling me they have Chinese names,Isabella recites her full name with so much pride,Sienna leaves out her English middle names now haha.

I love that we are able to pass some of this awesome heritage on for our girls.