Surrounded by Names

Naming a baby can be a hard task! I think we as parents stress ourselves out over it.  I mean it is going to stick with your child FOREVER!  There are so many to choose from and trying to integrate a side of the family makes it that much harder.  If you are like me you want something not really trendy but cute and interesting. 

Luckily with Colin we knew instantly. Naming him was not a difficult task.  I had a strong feeling it was a boy and really was not interested in looking at girl names.  When we saw Colin in a name book we both got really excited.  That one had no outside influence (it is not a family name) it was just a name we found together. We actually did not really look at anything else after that.  It worked perfectly because we are both of Irish and Scottish descent (the book we were looking at said one "l" was Scottish and two was Irish). His middle name is the same as my husband's and his mother's maiden name.  Will did convince me to have an idea for a girl name, so I loosely had the idea of Lilianne (from my grandma Lillian and my other grandma Anna). 

Since Colin was born, we have tossed around a few names here and there for our second child.  We focused more on girl names because we seem to agree more often on boy names.  We had Evelyn (I like Evie but not a fan of the whole name), Audrey (can you guess why???), Ava, and a few others but none of them really stuck.  I also went through a phase of wanting to do a name from Greek history.  I have always loved Ancient Greek civilization, whether it was mythology, philosophy, art, etc.  You name it...I probably have dabbled at least a little bit in it.  I was thinking of Athena (but it is getting more and more common, plus it is a very common dog name), Leda, Penelope (which Will vetoed right away - what can I say The Odyssey is one of my all-time favorite books), and many others. Even boy names like Hector, Priam, Marcus etc...But then I thought that my hobbies and interest may not be shared by this little one.  Plus, I do not like names where it is so obvious why the child is named that.  That is why I had a hard time with Audrey.  So, no Greek names.

I actually really like Logan, but with Will being a Wolverine fan...not so sure!  If we wanted another Irish name we had thought of Donovan, Dominic, or Declan.

There is one name that I have loved since I came up with it...but we still have a few we are tossing around - so no announcing now.  Plus, we are pretty positive we know what we are having but we are waiting for a second look next week...just to be sure!