I was happy to be able to post a name update this morning. I don’t know about you, but I am feeling discouraged by the low percentage of name updates. I don’t know what the solution is. I used to email parents and ASK for the updates, but (1) that involves a fair amount of tracking due dates and writing emails, and (2) after not one but TWO very sad replies to such emails, I didn’t want to ask anymore. Imagine nagging a parent for something as trivial as a name update when that parent is grieving, and then that parent has to RESPOND to the nagging email. Let’s never do that again, was my feeling.<\/p>\n
Well. I should post a question for us to answer but I don’t feel like it today: I’m restless, and overwhelmed with kid birthday-party stuff. Let’s just have a general baby-name discussion. Just, anything you want to say about baby names, go ahead and start it with a comment, and we can all skim through and see what we want to join in on. Probably we should not start a discussion where we trash other people’s name choices, but anything else we want to talk about.<\/p>\n
I’ll go first. I recently had a fun discussion with my sister-in-law about what other middle names our babies could have had. I thought it would have been fun if my niece’s middle name had been my sister-in-law’s sister’s name, and I was also wondering what middle name they would have chosen for my nephew if they hadn’t decided to go with a naming tradition, and we discussed the possibilities for awhile. Then I mentioned a couple of whimsical middle names (Marigold, Fern, etc.) I would have liked to consider for Elizabeth if we hadn’t used Paul’s previous first-choice name (he was willing to switch to the new favorite, but couldn’t quite let go of his old favorite). And what middle names we might have used instead of honor names, if we’d decided against honor names.<\/p>\n
We also talked about what other names the twins could have been. One combination I think would have worked well was John and Genevieve. I like that they have the same starting sound, but still have different initials. And although it can be hard to imagine children having different names, both names seem like possible fits. (Some, like Eric and Bianca, I really can’t picture.)<\/p>\n
Here’s another possible topic. What are we going to do with all the names we start loving AFTER we’ve named all our babies? Will we have to start giant doll collections or something? I was thinking it might be fun to frame each name and make a collection on the wall; it would be easy to take down ones we no longer liked, and put up fresh ones. “Wow, are these all family members or something?,” a guest might ask. “No, no—just my favorite baby names,” we’d reply placidly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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