After ten days spent getting to know her, and trying out a few names that we liked, we've decided on a name for our little one:

Freja Hélène Poole Johnson

Freja: a strong and beautiful name for our feisty little girl, and a nod to the Scandinavian heritage that's important to both Allen and to me. Pronounced "fray-ah." We chose to favor this traditional spelling Freja over longer or more anglicized alternatives and also over other traditional spellings that would be even more difficult for Americans.

Hélène: a variant of Elaine, my mom's middle name. Pronounced "eh-lenne" (emphasis on the 2nd syllable) and not "he-leene." Kinda like the name Ellen, but with the stress on the second syllable.

Poole: a second middle name, not a hyphenated last name, to honor Allen's family and to make administrative stuff easier ("yes, Mr. School Administrator/Airline Employee/Camp Director/Etc., Allen really is her dad...").

Johnson: her Scandihoovian last name. I'm an only child, and my dad's the only Johnson in his generation, so this way our family name carries forward.

So, for most purposes, she'll be known as Freja Johnson, or Freja Hélène Johnson.

About the accents: no worries if you're spelling it and forget the accents, or they're not easy to do on a computer as you type. The state of Oregon only has one of the necessary accents in their collection, anyway, so her birth certificate will probably read "Hélene." Ah, bureaucracy!

Meanwhile, we're still calling her what we've been calling her these past 10 days:
honey pie
chicken
little chicken
lilla gurken (little pickle)
pickle
baby doll
dolly
sarmaluta (little cabbage roll)
little monkey
maimuta (monkey)
scumpa (precious)
sweetie
pumpkin
little bird
little bug
baby...