It was a fun experience. Sooooo many names. And great ones too! Grant's only particular is that it can't be too common and my big thing is it can't be too weird. So pretty simple, right? Ha.
Though anyone who's already named at least one child already knows this, Grant and I are newbies to parenting and the adventures sure do start early... It was unbelievable how many names we had to veto because there's a close relative named that or we went to school with someone really nasty named that or it just sounds like the stage name of an unfortunate girl who makes her living doing things of ill repute.
But, thanks to the Internet, Danielle's posted fun and some good old-fashioned patience, we worked up a very well-rounded list. So, we got serious and began taking names off it instead of adding more on and narrowed it down to 3 names we both really liked.
They all seemed like very suitable choices to us, so Grant Googled them. Turns out not one, but two of the names we picked are also the first names of two of the three girls who star in the reality series "Girl Next Door". Which, though we weren't familiar with it off-hand, is a show about Hugh Heffner's three live-in girlfriends at the Playboy mansion. But we still really liked those names, so we plugged them in with our last name. No weirdness.
And, we have a winner!
Once we picked a first name, I suggested my mother's middle name to go with it because I liked the way they fit together. We weren't planning that at all, but I really love what we came up with.
Kendra Kay.
Pretty cute, eh? We think so. But we're madly biased about the awesomeness of our daughter already.
Just please, please, please nobody tell her we knew there was a Bunny running around at the time she was born and picked the same first name in spite of it. Does that make us bad parents already?
And for those who say babies should come with instructions, we found some really good ones. You might learn something too.
4 comments:
Picking a name is sooooo fun! I thought so anyway. We picked 4 names and waited until we saw him to pick the final name. And funny thing is we didn't end up going with your favorite choice of the names because it didn't seem to fit him. But Simeon is sooooo perfect for him. Anyway, I still think you picked a great name :)
See my comment in the post above this. Oops.
Very sweet! Love it.
What a nice name. I love having a family middle name for girls. I was sad when I had to bid farewell to my maiden name (though certainly not sad to be married!!!!), so I was glad to have a family name to carry on. Good choice!
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