What's in a name...

Last night Trent asked me if I had thought of any baby names. I instantly retracted with "No, Are you serious we still have like 4 months?" Of course as I lay in bed later I got thinking...maybe we should start thinking of names early so we don't have the fiasco of 2006 all over again.

Wondering what I am talking about? Then you have never heard how our first child, Erika Paige, got her name. I think we were still in shock that we were actually going to be parents that the fact that we actually had to NAME the child coming into the world totally slipped our minds. We showed up to the hospital with a Baby Name book and Trent read out names to me while I was in labor. If we both liked a name we wrote it down.

Two days later the nurse walked into our room and stated that we had to pick a name for Baby Girl Davies before she left the hospital that day. No pressure.

We took out our list and decided that we would each write down three names (or maybe it was two...I really can't remember) and then fold them up and stick them in a hat and then pick. As we were writing down our name choices I looked up at him and said "What if we both write down the same name as one of our choices...shouldn't we just go with that one instead of picking one out of a hat?" We agreed and come to find out we both wrote down Erika as a choice so we had the first name done...now for a middle name.

We each wrote down names we liked and this time we DID put them in a hat and drew out the name Paige. Baby Girl Davies finally had a name with hours to spare!For baby number 2 we wised up a little. We started thinking of names about 3 months before the little one was born. I would keep a pad of paper next to the bed and in my purse and as I heard or saw names I liked I would write them down. Every couple days I would bounce name ideas off of Trent. One day I saw the name Alexis somewhere and told Trent about it. I knew he had an ex-girlfriend named that but I could honestly care less. I had never met the girl and I was married to him now! Plus if we played that game and didn't copy any names from friends, family, etc we would be out of names! So the first name was picked before we even got to the hospital. The middle name was a little bit harder. We spent weeks bouncing names off each other. Every time we went to one of Trent's basketball games I would sit and talk to the other wives and listen to all their name ideas. To tell you the truth I don't even remember where we finally got the middle name from but we decided on the name Alexis Kamryn and we weren't even at the hospital yet...SCORE!It's alot of pressure naming a child. Lot's of people have a list of names they have had since they were little for their future children...not me. Also, I am not one of those people that get all secretive when it comes to names. When we figure out a name you will know. I could care less who knows it and if you are pregnant and due before me and steal my name...WHO CARES! I probably stole the name from someone else! Oh and rant #3...don't expect anything wacky or super random from us. We like normal names...spelled normal...nothing fancy with 18 extra vowels in it.

So this morning I got to work and busted out a pad of paper and began my name list. I know we don't know the gender yet but it never hurts to have a list for both. Plus we find out next week what the little munchkin is and I highly doubt we will find a name by then!