"Have you picked out a name yet?"
No... well, maybe.
We're closer than we were before, but it has not been easy. At first I wanted something exotic -- maybe something from another country or culture. After I read a few things, got some advice and thought about it for a while, I changed my mind completely.
I decided I just wanted something that meets a few criteria:
1) Obviously male
2) Only one way to spell it
3) Not one of the top 20 names this year
4) Not just a surname that I shamelessly poached
5) Sounds okay with our last name
Then R reminded me that we'll need a middle name too. We found out that we have differing opinions on middle names. I lean towards using surnames of grandparents for middle names (since that's what I have). R thinks it is better to have a name that is more like a first name, like the first name of a grandfather. We still have not been able to resolve that issue completely, so we haven't really been considering too many choices for middle names.
So, there you have it. We still don't have a name picked out.
OUR SESAME SEED
In week 5 your baby is about the size of a sesame seed
7 comments:
Good show, looks like a good criteria list. With your last name being unique enough your kid can still be cool with the more popular names. Though I guess you never really call kids by their last name. Anyhow we beat you to Big G's first name so you have one less to brood over.
As far as your blog goes, all you need is a first initial anyways, so maybe start there. H is a pretty manly looking initial. It's strong, upright, symmetrical, no curves or loops, and it's probably one of the better looking letters you can have brandished across your chest or on your belt buckle if you decide to go into superheroing, or villainy for that matter.
I think you should go with "Space" as a first name, and "Commander" as a middle name. It'll be a little awkward for the first 25 or 30 years of his life, but your lunar stronghold will never have been more secure with him around.
So how would this go over in the world of D & R... We went to the doctor to do the ultra-sound... we had been contending for several weeks about finding out the gender. Anyway I had been at school and same with the good wife, so bascially we had agreed to disagree a few days earlier but now were at the clinic with no conclusion made. We go into the back because were a little late... so we hadn't spoken about it. Anyway so off the lady goes and ask's "Do you want to know what it is?" So I look to super babe and give her the your call look, and she say's "It's okay if he finds out but I don't want to know!" So here we are... I know what we are having, the awesome wife doesn't! She keeps asking me to tell her when I promised her I wouldn't, she won't let me tell people that I know. Anyway - how would that have gone over in the great city across from the Museum of Civilization?
M-BYU
I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and doggone-it D likes me! I think?
Shoot, my original comment got deleted. Well, here I go again.
To go with Space Commander, did you know that Jason Lee (Earl from the TV show My Name is Earl) named his son Pilot Inspector...I kid you not. I keep up with my entertainment gossip. Just be careful and be aware of what names are being used on TV too. I picked Aidan long before the character from Sex and the City came around and now Aidan was the number one boy's name for 2006. Out of all the Aidans out there, mine is one of the older ones which means I am NOT a follower, thank you very much.
I just have to chime in here. You and your wife are both wrong about middle names. First, don't give the kid a weird last name as a middle name. What if the kid hates his first name? He should be able to have the middle name to go back on. I would hate for one of my grandkids to have my last name as their middle name, especially if they get a bad first name.
Your wife, then, is a little closer to being right, but there's still room here for improvement. No, the kid should not get a boring regular middle name. Imagine getting the middle name of something stupid and boring, like John, for example. That would stink.
You guys are missing the important fact that the standard for choosing a middle name needs to be the only part of the middle name that matters since it is all that is really seen much: the middle initial. Start with the initial and go from there.
What middle initial is best? I think the kid should have a cool sci-fi initial, like X. Lemme tell you, if that was my middle initial, and my name was Owen X. Temby, that would be the coolest name in the world.
So that settles it. Your kid's middle name should be Xavier.
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