And the Winner Is.....

One of the biggest decisions that expectant parents have to make is not the color for the nursery, the pattern for the sheets, or the outfit for the baby to wear home from the hospital.  It is choosing a name for their child.  For some reason Lynsey decided to let me write about this very momentous occasion.  Before we get to the big reveal, let me tell a little background, or if you are impatient, then you can scroll to the bottom and find out the answer.

 

With Mason, we went through a very scientific process for determining his name.  (Those of you who know me should not be surprised.)  It involved a structured elimination with criteria of rhyming, word association, and potential nicknames by elementary school bullies.  After all that, we ended up with what we thought was the perfect name for us.  I thought that since this approach work so well with Mason that we should use it again with Baby #2. Lynsey is much more flower child and less structurally scientific than I am, so obviously this approach did not work the second time around. 

This time we each had a favorite so there was no need to eliminate the superfluous choices; Lynsey’s was Emerson and mine was Katherine.  After a couple weeks of debate and sneaky notes signed by our choice of name we both realized that neither of us were going to give in.  So we could either have a nameless baby or decide on a compromise, and being the rational parents that we are, we chose the latter.  The important things that we both agreed on were that it should be classical but not overly common while also being contemporary but not too edgy.  It should be long but not long and it should be her real name and not something that would be abbreviated.  It had to go well with our middle name of choice, which runs in Lynsey’s family, and the initials should not spell anything vulgar.

Surprisingly, once we put our favorites behind us, the mutually decided on name came pretty quick and easy.  The only remaining decision was to let people know the name in advance.  In brief Lynsey won out on this one.  So without further ado here is Baby #2’s….

Initials. 

Come back tomorrow to see the full name.  Guesses are welcome in the interim.