Thursday, July 31, 2014

What's in a Name...

 
Well people, you have no idea.  Actually, some of you really do.  :)  Not only did it take Livie 4 days to finally make her appearance, but she was "Baby Girl Claassen"  for like 3 days at the hospital.  Livie is a family name on my side (spelled Livvie originally).  It was my Grandma's Grandma's name.  Did you get that?  I loved it, but Jed wasn't sure early on so we kept searching.  Then when she was born he wanted to name her Livvie, but wanted to drop a v.  I was so worried that he was just trying to please me and didn't really love it.   You see the problem.  Anywho, she ended up Livie Kaye and I love it. 
 
 
Then Claire was cooking, and we were having the same type of dilemmas.  I had liked Claire all along.  It was on our list with Livie.  However, I also really liked Addison Jane.  Jane is my sister's middle name.  I know my mom always regretted not naming Sara, Sara Jessie after her grandma, and I was worried since Livie has 2 family names it might be sad for Claire not to have family names, but then we couldn't find a family name on Jed's side we liked yada yada.  Even after we named Claire I would sit smiling at her saying, "Is your name Addie Jane?"  "You can tell mommy, we'll make the change, as she just looked at me like I might be crazy!"  Yep, lucky you kid I'm your mom. :0
 
 
And now, the dreaded name game has haunted me for 40 weeks again!  (Well almost 40)
With this one, I was determined.  I started with my names early on.  Jed refused to talk about it because we knew we were going to find out the sex.  He said what was the point until we know what we're looking for a boy or girl name. 
WHAT'S THE POINT?  HELLO IT'S US!!  WE'RE TERRIBLE AT THIS!  LITERALLY TERRIBLE!! 
Of course, I had 7 girl names that I really, truly liked and NO BOY names.  Also, Jed vetoed everything!  When we found out he has Down syndrome, it even threw more wrenches in the gears.  I wanted it to be short and easy to say and write.  I didn't want to use names with letter sounds that are difficult to make such as L or R. Which made things even more difficult because although I didn't notice it before eliminating those letters, I REALLY LIKE THOSE LETTERS!  I mean Livie and Claire!  Finally, predicament number 534, his middle name has to be Rudolph.  For those of you who don't know, that is my husband's middle name, and his dad's first name, and his dad's first name, and was his dad's first name, and it goes even further than that! 
 
So you say, "Do you have a name?"
 
Yes, I say with mediocre, not sincere confidence, we do have a name, and in 15 days we will be sharing it with the world.  We've thrown it around, but I am so noncommittal that I wouldn't be surprised if in 15 days you see a
Baby Boy Blank Rudolph Claassen announcement...
and now you'll know why.
 
Some of us struggle with Names People!!! 

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