The Nameless One:

At this point we STILL don't have a name for the baby! I know, I know! What's the hold up? Picking a name seems impossible. We thought we had a name for each, but now we're both not sure at all. When we named Conrad, we knew that his name was Conrad but no one seemed to like it,  you can't shorten it to make a nickname and it's sort of hard to say, but we couldn't not name him his name. I actually remember really wanting a boy just because I wanted to name him Conrad. It's like, we liked his name but we didn't like it but secretly we loved it.... We really love it now, don't get me wrong, but at first it really had to grow on us.

I think we've decided that once we actually see the baby, we'll nail down it's name. That's one thing that we're excited about when it comes to not knowing the sex, and not naming the baby before we see him/her. We'll be able to look at our list and hold our baby and say, "She/he totally looks like a _________!"

Some of the names we've been throwing around include the names listed below.

When it comes to girl names, I LOVE masculine names for the first name but super girlie names for the middle name (there's a lil' hint for ya.) I love the name Rosie and Ruby but Rosie Robbins sounds like a porn stars name and Ruby was already taken by my brother. For the most part, "r" names are out of the question. We had considered calling Conrad Roman before we chose his name but it sounded too matchy-matchy.


Girl names:
Owynn
Rosalie
Eliotte
Carson
Etta
Cade
Liv
Maren
Elloise
Jaymes
Monroe
Harper
Jules
Gwen

With boy names, we consider a few things. Does the name sound like it could be the name of a lawyer and also a rock star? It has to be able to go both ways. It has to have a nerdy feel to it but also a cool feel to it too. Will he have 19 other dudes in his class with the same name (only 250 boys were named Conrad last year in the U.S. Dustin was curious and looked it up.) And is it "too weird" and reaching too far to be different. Is it  practical? Does it sound like a pimp's name?


Boy Names:
Larson
Harrison
Rexford
Marsden
Cash
Hartley
Gideon
Leighton
Foster
Amos
Davis
Everett (Dustin's g-pa)
Abraham (Abe or Abram)
Clark

(A photo we sent to Dustin yesterday while we were playing dress up with my photo booth props. Conrad was a clown, a pirate & a lion. He had to show Dustin his horse. That's what he's trying to do in this photo.)

So the baby's first and middle names are both on these lists of names. I thought it might be fun to see what names you guys loved from the lists and what two names (boy and girl names) you would put together out of the names shown above.