Saturday, February 15, 2014

Baby Names

I am 34 weeks pregnant, and "no," we still don't have a name picked.  And "no," I will not tell you the names we are thinking of.

Why is it so hard to pick a name, you ask?  Well, I'm not picky at all it's just that...

1. We want it to be meaningful - or at least, not mean something horrible.
2. We don't want it to start with the same letters as anyone else's name in our immediate family
3. It can't sound funny with 'Brink'
4. We don't want people to mis-spell or mis-pronounce our daughter's name for the rest of her life 
5. We don't want a duplicate name to the more than 100 people in both of our families
6. We want it to be uncommon but not weird.  Like, not a name that spells something backwards, or a name like 'abcde' or 'harper 7' or an inanimate object like 'apple' or a place like 'virginia' [p.s. no offence to those of you who do this, frankly we are just not 'hip' enough to pull it off]
7. A lot of our friends have kids or are having kids, and we don't want to duplicate their kids' names
8. We don't want to duplicate friends' names either...which in the facebook world is getting harder

Those qualifiers leave us with few names we like- or if we like that name, we can't find a middle name to work with it. 

See?  Not picky at all.  But, it's okay.  Jason and I are SO good at decision making, so we've got this.  Not like we spent 4 hours in Ikea trying to decide whether or not we'd buy a blue couch - another earth-rocking decision [insert sarcasm here].   

Does anyone else find picking kid's names extraordinarily difficult??

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