They Didn't Make The Cut...

How you doin'?

The other night I was finalizing the list of names for both boys and girls that Tina and I liked. In total we had about 100 names chosen as potentials. After some conversations with a few friends and relatives, and with each other, we got the list down to about 67. We still have a lot of work to do to get down to the top five.

In searching for these names, I read through about 55,000 names... it took me about a month. The process was particularly difficult because so many names are already taken between the two families. For a while I was getting desperate, thinking that "Turnip" or "Datsun" might have to be considered as finalist names for the baby. However, after some digging through the Internet, we found some names that were unique but not overly complicated.

While we aren't even close to a final list, Tina and I probably wouldn't tell anyone what the names were anyway. We want that to be a surprise. It'll probably be a surprise for us!

I did compile a list of rejected names, so I'll list those instead...

BOYS
Edward
Colin
Jared
Ramone
Armond
Felipe
Bradley

GIRLS
Madison
Giselle
Jocelyn
Ashley
Mila
Caressa
Christa
Cristalin
Dulcinea
Eurydice
Florisel
Sabrina
Sasha
Mistral
Carraway
Isis
Lomasi
Marissia
Natalia
Adalia
Lorelei
Kaylan
Darian
Geneveve
Miranda
Callista

As you can see, we have a lot more girl names than boys, probably because boys dominate both families and have used up all the names already. I have some advice for future parents in the family...copyright the names you might want now, because they might be taken up soon in the future.

Update on Tina. She's healthy and sleeps a lot. Oh, and remember how I wrote before that saucy things disgust her now? Well, I made this amazing Chipotle BBQ sauce and she loved it on the baby back ribs I made the other night. So that's one point for the sauces.

I'm hoping to get some pictures up of Tina soon, just need to develop the film. No stomach shots though. I love all of you but I do value my own life, and putting up belly pictures would put my life in serious jeapardy.