小狮子! Your Lao Lao gave you this name. It is, admittedly, a funny one. Unlike other Chinese names, it does not carry a traditional family surname. Nor does it contain the lineal character that your Lao Ye’s name holds, a very solemn naming convention that was set into family poetry by an ancestor in China over twenty generations ago. None of that dusty patriarchal stuff. Your name is a new beginning! The result of two hearts colliding in a way none of our antecedents could’ve foreseen. You are your mama’s beloved, a double big cat personality born in the Year of the Tiger and during the season of the sun ♌️ In literal translation, your name means “little lion”. We wish you a life of great courage and curiosity. But mostly, whoever you are, we hope you grow up good and kind. We love you Leo. Or as your grandparents prefer to say (in one breath, all in quick, uplifting succession): “Leo, Leo, Leo!”