The name game

I love baby names. I have always thoroughly enjoyed the process of naming our children. Dave has always had alot of input as well, so it's not like I just single handedly named our bundles of joy. I have usually had a long list of names that I liked. Most get vetoed because they are too "out there" or he can some how see some way that his child will get made fun of over any given name on my list. :) Still, it has been fun to look through names, collaborate together, compromise, and come up with some names that we both really love. I usually have had a boy name and girl name picked out before I have even lost my ability to snap my skinny jeans. Not this time. There are names we had picked out through out the other pregnancies, and never used, but they seem out dated to me now. I want something new. Something fresh and - just right. I also want to choose really carefully because this is likely my last chance to name a baby. I guess I just want to savor that fun one last time. :) This morning me and the boys were having our morning cuddle session on the couch and we were discussing what to name the baby. We usually pick a very important subject during our morning cuddle, while they are still doing those cute stretches and yawns. One morning last week the subject was whether peanut butter and jelly or peanut butter and honey was the greatest. A few days ago we discussed our favorite animals of all time. K's was a wombat (That's my out of the box boy!). Jay loves Tigers. Noe had a hard time making up his mind, but I think he finally decided on a peacock. Oh - if you must know, mine was a giraffe. So this morning we embarked on one of those all important mother son talks. I mentioned the name Abigail for a girl. Jay shot it down on account of there being two of them in his "big boy class" at church (Yes, they are girls, but apparently they have been let in to the "big boy" class"). So I threw out a boy name,"I like Logan". "MO-UMMM! We already have one of those too. He plays in the nursery with me during Mom's group!" Okay, so apparently if there has ever been a time that we have heard of any one with the name, it can not be bestowed upon our baby, according to Jay. K decides that he really likes the name Lola - because he loves to play Charlie and Lola games on the Disney website. He likes the name Charlie too - but Jay quickly let's him know that is not acceptable at all. They have a cousin named Charlie. I really like the name Caden. And I think I have finally found one that can not be argued with by my four year old. We don't know any one with that name. So, I confidently put that name in the mix. Jay's forehead gets all wrinkled up and his eyes squint, as if trying to find the argument for that name. I think I may have scored finally. But then he opens his mouth and I hear his serious voice. "Mom, Caden rhymes with Caleb. We can't do that. We would get them mixed up!" (By the way, Caleb has been lovingly shortened to the first syllable of his name, which I have chosen to simply interpret as "K", and is quite often referred to as that in our house hold - as well as on the blog). Shot down again. Don't get me wrong. We aren't leaving the naming up to our kiddos. But I really love their cute ideas, and although the final decision will be mine and Dave's, I do want them to have some input. Plus, they actually had some legitimate thoughts on it all. After I attacked Jay with tickles and told him to give some of my baby names a chance, I asked them all what they thought of Henry. I was met with three little boy belly laughs. I guess Henry's out. So, give me some ideas people! What are some of your favorite names? Let's just see what Jay has left in his "Very good reasons why the baby can not be named that" collection.