Names

Mandy and I were looking at a baby name book last night. (PS- Yes, Mandy knows before my parents, my Mom would kill me, but kind of hard to keep a secret like this from your roommate, especially when you have morning sickness and are bringing home baby cribs) Okay, I feel I need to diverge for a minute on why it has taken me up til the 8 week point to tell important people in our lives. I know some people like to tell right away and then if something happens have a support group, but I am the opposite, I would rather not dissapoint everyone if something goes wrong. I realize that the greatest window to miscarry can last up to 13 weeks, but I felt if we could make it to the 8 week mark that I would be comfortable telling everyone, so I mailed off my Grandma Subway Art to my Mom, and Scott will be taking his to Logan next week to give to his Mom. We figured out a cute way to tell our sisters they were going to be Aunts- I kind of want them to have to figure it out, so I am going to make Pink and Blue Ants, a bunch, in little confetti size, and put them in envelopes for each of them to open. I told Scott to just tell Brett and Tyler since they won't really care if they get a cute craft, ha ha.

Okay, so back to Mandy and I looking at names. Scott and I have decided that we both love our parents very much and want to, in some form, honor them in the baby names. So we decided to use their initials. Our first two children will have each of our parents initials. Girl names were super easy to come up with and we figured those out right away. For Anona and Rod we would name the girl Aspen Rose and for Lesa and Jeff we would name her Lorelai Jay (please note the second name is the middle name of the child). Boys....I am not so good at picking out boy names, which brings me to Mandy and I browsing at midnight through the most ridiculous baby name book ever created: 60001 Baby Names, the majority being severely ridiculous (rambo, amadeus? who would be cruel enough to use these?). Let me tell you, I have a VERY hard time choosing names. So, we found a couple that were good: I liked Grayson Rhet and or Rhet Aden, and then for my parents Joel Bryan- I know, there is no L in there, but to be honest, we love Lorelai Jay so much that we would probably use that at some point for my Mom. Bryan is actually my dad's middle name and it sounds so good with Joel, and I just dont like any boy L names.

Anywho, Mandy has a friend who just had a baby in the Spring and names her daughter Scarlet, so I told her this morning that if we have a boy named Rhet that she will have two friends with babys named after "Gone with the Wind" characters. How special ha ha.