What's in a Name?

"that which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet"
Yes, that's right, I still know the Romeo & Juliet lines by heart. Thank you High School Freshman English!

Lately, we've gotten lots of questions about names.  I'm sure this is typical, except for that since we're going the surprise route with Little B, people want to know something - anything!  Funny enough, Tim and I  haven't even talked about it!  I don't know why but it doesn't seem like something we're ready to do just yet.

There's so much pressure in choosing a name. I mean we're basically laying out everything for our child with one (or sometimes two depending on the middle name) words. You have to take into consideration the way it sounds, if it will fit Little B's personality, what kind of mean & hurtful things can playground-garbage-pail kids come up with based on this name. On one hand you don't want something that everyone else has, but on the other you don't want something completely off the wall either.

Then to top it all off when we were discussing the fact that we hadn't really talked about it, I started thinking of names and when one popped into my head, I asked Tim if he ever dated a girl named ________. Just as I had imagined, he had. I'm not saying this is the most important thing, but I want NEW, FRESH, CLEAN memories with name, not ones where someone thinks of a crazy, high school "friend" that we knew when...or that guy in college that was always so nuts!

Seriously, the pressure.