Keagan

In my 2009 goals over at tiffanymalloy.blogspot.com, I mentioned that we’re going to officially add a name to Asante. It will be Asante Samuel, Keagan Malloy. We’re going to add a name to each of the kids after a year or so, when we’ve learned some about their personalities. Some have asked what the significance of “Keagan” is. It’s Irish, and it means “determined, or fiery.” We’ve noticed that Asante is quite the determined boy, and has the fire in him. One example of this is that Asante will try and put the lid on a water bottle for 30 minutes because he wants to do it by himself. He gets pretty fiery if he can’t do it, but he’ll keep on going back to it until he accomplishes the goal he’s trying to achieve. This is just a small example of something that we see everyday in him.

Of course this could be taken as a bad quality, but we think it’s good. If we teach him to direct his passion/fire and determination in healthy avenues, we think it’ll be used by God for His Kingdom purposes. So we want the addition to become a tradition in our family- one that is meaningful and celebrated. We actually came across the name when we were thinking about boy names before we knew if the new baby was a boy or girl.