Houston, We Have a Name!

This whole baby naming thing is serious business! I mean, we're basically setting the stage for a lifetime. We didn't want it to be a here-today-gone-tomorrow moniker, didn't want it to sound like a name of yesteryear, but also didn't want it to be a top 10 everyone-has-it kind of name. Still on the "didn't want" list... something too juvenile or silly for an adult male.

I'll shorten the wait... this l'il guy will be named:

Caleb Ian

Here are the facts:

Caleb - Arabic origin meaning bold, brave

Ian - Irish origin meaning "God's gracious gift"

Iterations we seriously considered included Ian Kenneth (my grandpa and Paul's foster grandpa was/is Kenneth), Caleb Kenneth and Caleb Bryce.

If Caleb were a girl, his name would have been Lila Colbie. Incidentally, I had Lilah picked out for a girl's name years ago, and Paul's grandma's name is Lila (no "h" at the end)... so that was a no-brainer for us.

We were pretty sure Ian would be mispronounced by too many as "Eye-An" - and after a life of "Joan" instead of "Jo-Ann" for me, I don't want my kid to have to correct people so often. (Side rant: nobody else in my family has that problem! Who mispronounces Jay, Judy, Karen, or Daniel??!)

It was also thought that Ian would certainly become "peein' Ian" at some point on the playground, so we tried to stay away from that. On the other hand, Caleb could become "Gay-leb", but with all the popular Aiden ("Gay-den") and Kaiden (again, "Gay-den") names right now, maybe that'll just be too common to be funny.

We've yelled it several times in the house to make sure it flows when he's in trouble. Sounds good when we're fake mad!

Finally, if you say his first and middle name scrunched together, it sounds like a drunk person saying Caribbean. Try it :)