Thursday, March 29, 2007

Baby names

So the FP Gal posted today about her thoughts on baby names. She's not ready to share our choice yet. The hitch is that I'm ready. We picked a couple of names pretty early into the pregnancy and they're pretty good. Good enough that I'm confident that we'll stick with them.
But I'm sympathetic to her wishes, too. We'll wait until she's comfortable before doing anything. Her part of this is somewhat more difficult than mine so I want to accomadate her whenever possible. And this really is a pretty small burden to bear. (It also occurs to me that if we don't share them ahead of time, then whoever can get to the birth certificate first has a lot of power. Hmmmm. Maybe Beowulf isn't out yet.)
We've also talked some about the last name. The FP Gal kept hers so we have some options to play with. (There's a good story there. I'll save it for some other time.) In the early days of the pregnancy I hit upon a wonderful idea to settle which name we'd choose. We'd challenge each of our families to raise money for the baby and whichever one raised the most would get the last name. The FP Gal shot it down. Something to do with good taste or something like that. Spoilsport.
Here are some of the names we've rejected:
  • Pagoda
  • Margarita
  • Agamemnon (way too special)
  • Robert Bruce
  • Gilda (just discarded tonight)
  • Paris
  • Adolph
  • George Bush
  • Bambi
  • Suri Cruise
We tried asking the baby and we got an answer of 'Rrrrgghhup'. (I'm guessing at the spelling.) The quest continues...

1 comment:

carrster said...

"Gilda" was just the first random thing that popped into my head! haha.