And if any topic is appropriate for a blog, the topic of
babies it is. As many of you know, I’m 4.5 months pregnant with my last child.
I mean…my fourth child. I can’t help but focus on the fact that we are shutting
the reproduction factory for good after this go ‘round. It’s bittersweet,
really.
Nevertheless, in as little as a week, we’ll be able to stop
calling it, “it.”
Everyone is more excited about that than me. I suppose it’s
because this time, I truly don’t have a gender preference. I see pros having
either or. Or perhaps it’s because I cannot settle on a name.
Baby naming is not as easy as family tradition, religion,
ethnicity, and fad following. No…names matter. They make that first impression
before we ever appear in person. However challenging, it’s also fun. It’s a way
of imagining him or her in the future, having their name called out, coloring
it across a school folder.
I suppose, in a way, it’s the last indulgence; one more chance
to pretend that we control who they ultimately become.
If it’s a boy: If
it’s a girl:
Tripp Rivers
Jett Winter
Lake Piper
Rory Lorelei
I'm so curious: Which baby names are your favorites these
days? Do you care if a name is popular? How do you brainstorm names? Have you
known your names forever, or did it take you ages to pick? Do you secretly more
pets – just to get an opportunity to name the unnamed?
