A Name for Baby

One of the reasons we were really hoping to find out the sex of Baby this week was so we could seriously start discussing baby names. Since we don’t agree on many, we decided to wait until we know the sex to argue about names. My preference is for a name that everyone can spell (nothing too creative) but not so common that every other little kid on the playground has the same name (no Emma, Ella, Isabella, Olivia, Aiden, of course this is coming from Jennifer- the most popular girls’ name in 1973, and Christopher- 2nd most popular boys’ name in 1972).

Chris has odd taste in names.. for boys his favorite name was Buster, of course he told me this several years ago before we became Arrested Development fans. Yeah, not going with Buster, or Clive, or any of the other weird names he liked. For girls, Chris seems to think of cute girls he dated in the 80’s and likes those names- yeah, too dated.

I like classic names- Charlotte, Audrey, Natalie, Amelia. For awhile we had agreed on Charlotte, if it was a girl. Chris has since decided he doesn’t like the name anymore, and has settled on Elizabeth. Hmm.. too long of a name for a little girl, and I don’t like the nickname options- Lizzie, Liz, Eliza, Beth. I really like Veronica, but then her initials would be VD and I’m not sure how much teasing she’d get on that one. I guess it could be worse, her initials could be STD. Anyway, if we end up having a girl, don’t get us anything monogrammed until the very last second, we will probably change our mind 100 times.

For boys, we have agreed on Jake Ryan D. (Chris pushed for Jake Blues D., yeah, not getting it.) At first we were a little concerned that the Sixteen Candles reference might be a little too cheesy, but so far the only people that have noticed are fellow children of the 80’s, my sister and mom didn’t get it. (Actually Chris was the one that thought it might be cheesy, his response, “Jake Ryan? Why don’t we just name the kid Long Duk Dong…” nice manners babe!) I’m not saying we are naming the kid after a movie character, just that I liked the name Jake and Ryan does go well as a middle name. It’s not like I’m pushing for Lloyd Dobler D. or anything.

So now we have another 24 days to stew over names before finally getting serious. Have any suggestions for us? Send them our way!

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