Baby Names

While my sister, Kelly, was at work we were emailing back and forth. She does not know we're TTC. She wanted to talk baby names and well, I don't need much convincing on that subject so we did. She mentioned the girl name her and her H (Brandon) had decided on was Autumn. It just so happens that it was mentioned to me that my cousin Brandon and his gf decided when they get married and have kids, they want to use the name Autumn for a girl. That got me to thinking. Technically you can't lay claim to a name. It just doesn't work that way, but what happens when two people in the family want to use the same name? It happened in our family, except they were different genders. I have a boy cousin Jordan and a girl cousin Jordan. It worked for them b/c we call her Jordan Lee when we have family functions.

Kelly said if they have a girl first, they're going to use the name. I can argue both sides of that. If I/we had decided use a name and then someone else used it, I'd be pissed. Not sure if I'd want to use it after that. On the other hand, if we had decided on a name and someone else wanted it too but we had the baby first, I can totally see it being fair-like a first dibs kind of thing. I have mixed feelings. That's why I told my sister and my cousins Brittany and April the names we picked out so they know we are planning to use them. These are the only family members that are talking children. If you want to use them, beware. We are sticking to these names no matter what!

James and I have the same views on most things. Babies are no exception. We decided we both want to know the sex of the baby. We want to have the room decorated (eventhough there's no guarantee until you see your baby). Once we know the sex, we want to call the baby by name instead of baby or it. Of course we have no idea what pregnancy is going to be like, but we want to make it as personal (for lack of a better word) as possible. When we're talking to others or to the baby, we want to use the name we've chosen. I'm excited about that. For this reason, I'm hoping the 20 wk u/s, the little one will give us a peep show so we can find out.

Boys: I always thought I wanted a girl first. I love all the girlie things but we have a lot of boys in our family and when we got to discussing names, we agreed on boys names, three of them, easily. Being around little boys, my views have changed and I want a little boy just as much as a little girl. I don't have a preference, just a healthy one of course.
Since my maiden name is Thomas, I wanted to use that. I do not like it as a first name, but want to use it as the middle name. J & I agreed initially on Nathan and Lucas. I've always liked Nathan a little more, love the nickname Nate, and Nathan Thomas sounds better than Lucas Thomas so Nathan Thomas B is our boy name. Since twins run in the family, we wanted to pick out two names for each. J's middle name is Ross so we have another middle name. Lucas Ross B or Grant Ross B, not sure which. We like them both.

Girls: Like I said, I love all things girlie. The pinks, the outfits, thinking of doing their hair and taking them to dance class. So in thinking of names, I wanted something that wasn't too cutsie. A name that will sound good on a baby or older lady. I also wanted something that has the potential for a nickname. We don't want to use the nickname predominantly, but wanted something we could use for short. The name we decided upon, Camille Rose. I love it. It just sounds classic to me. Cami would be the nickname and at this point, neither of the two are popular in our area. Honestly, I haven't heard it used at all really. I like that. We haven't chosen a 2nd girl name in case of twins. Guess we'll figure that out if the situation presents itself.

So those are our baby names. We can't wait to use them :)
What have you picked out?