Pictured: Two people who have lost their minds.In all seriousness, we have decided on the name. It was a more difficult this time around and it took us longer to come to a mutual agreement. And we're reserving the right to call an audible once he is born in case we decide he doesn't look like the name we chose*. But for now, the name of baby #2 will be Lucas William Chapin.
* Seriously, what does that even mean? How can a baby look like a certain name? After Levi was born, many people said "He looks like a Levi". Huh? So a Levi looks like a 7 pound baby with tons of black hair? What if we had named him Albert, or Magglio, or even Bosephus? Would he still have looked like a Levi? Or is is just our brains subconsciously telling us he looks like whatever the chosen name was?
I've always liked the name Lucas. It's a bit more popular than we were hoping, as it seems to be trending upwards on the list of most popular boys names (going from 71st to 9th over the last 5 years). So he might end up like me and have 30 other classmates with the same name. He also might end up going by Luke which would be ok with us also. Between me (my middle name is John) and him we'd have 3/4 of the gospels covered. That can't be such a bad thing, right?
On second thought...The middle name William is the name of Courtney's grandfather who passed away in 2005. For those who don't know, Levi's middle name is Joseph and that was my grandfather's name (he passed away in 1983). We have decided to honor our grandfathers in this manner because of the profound impact they had on us and our families. Of course, if we have any more boys the next two grandfathers were/are named Donald and Overton, so we're hoping if we have any more kids that they're girls.
Anyway, sorry for the joke, and we hope all 4 people who read it had a good laugh.
3 comments:
I read yesterday's post and knew it was a joke. :o) Lucas William is a wonderful name. It even sounds good with Levi: "Lucas and Levi" I never worried much about matching sibling names (who cares in 20 years?), but some people do and I guess it's a nice bonus if they sound good together.
I understand having trouble with a second name! Firmin and I discovered that we both liked only one male name: Alexander. After we had used up that one, we were in trouble! Girl names came pretty easily, but Ethan was without a name until several hours after his birth. I chose it after we had slept a bit (he was born at 3:15 am), and interestingly, it was not a name on our (very) "short list". Why? Because he didn't look like any of the names on our list! He looked like an Ethan -- it just came to me. Firmin agreed, and there we had it. So while I used to pooh-pooh the idea of babies "looking" like a certain name*, I think sometimes it is appropriate either to wait or to be open to a last minute change. In any case, you and Courtney must be getting excited! I look forward to meeting little Lucas -- or whatever his name turns out to be!
*After we chose Brianna's name, my mother suggested that we not make a final decision until we saw what she looked like. I just laughed and said we were *not* going to name her Prunella! ;o) Brianna stuck and seems to fit her pretty well.
First sentence of second paragraph: I mean to say that Alexander was the only male name we *both* liked. We each had other names we liked --I lobbied hard for Levi! -- but none of them matched.
I so thought you were serious. I was a little scared!
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