Mikko Koivu is a dad now

[oanja]

Here's him showing emotion about it. :D video I don't know why but LJ won't let me embed videos from the NHL page.


I also finally figured out why he looks so weird, his eyebrows are so light they are almost invisible. And it doesn't really help that his brows are pretty heavy.

It's kind of strange to me that they already named the baby. I guess they adopted the American custom. Sofia is a cute name though, but I'm amused by how differently they went about naming her as opposed to Saku and his wife, who picked super Finnish names for their kids.

(this embedding thing is going to cause problems for my project to make a picspam to go with my hockey big bang fic. *Grr*)

Comments

[bestliars.livejournal.com]

That video was super adorable.

What's the Finnish custom for naming children? Now I'm curious.

[oanja.livejournal.com]

Yes, he was so obviously happy. It was great to see. :)

Well, I googled this to make sure that I'm not just talking about my family's traditions here... :D But in Finland the baby has it's naming ceremony or Christening between the ages of 1-2 months (two months is the limit by which time you have to register your baby and name them officially for documents etc). It's really common not to tell anyone what the baby is called before the ceremony, some people might tell close family members etc, but some people keep it totally secret.

(This happened this summer with my cousin's baby, I think my cousin and her husband only told their parents in advance.)

Just in general I don't think many people even know what their baby is going to be called before she/he is born. I'm sure many make lists about it in advance, but I think many want to get to know their baby before picking a name.

The tradition might have something to do with how infant mortality used to be high in the past and I think you couldn't even get the baby christened before it seemed likely it would survive. (I'm not a 100% sure about this though)