Quick! What's Their Name?

Playdough Picker had Quick-what’s… on her blog so I thought I'd play.

Christopher Grey – I fought for 6 months to get Grey named after his father and I finally won. We saw Grey in a book when I remembered that I had always liked that name. I worked on a fishing boat in Alaska one summer. Out of the four guys on the boat, three of them were Patrick’s. The captain we called Patrick, his son we called Paddy and another guy who just happened to be named Patrick Grey, we called Grey. At the time I thought it was the coolest name and I wanted to use it for a future child of mine. Yay, I got my way all the way around with this one!

Lara Kathleen – Chris was so mad about having a son named after him that he insisted we name a daughter after me. Fine. I really didn’t care. Kathleen we got from his sister Kathy but we call ours Kate. Kate’s only wish is that we call her Katie but we never do so she consoles herself by naming her chicken, all her stuffed animals and all her imaginary friends, Katie. It’s gets a little confusing with so many Katie’s around here.

More about Kate – Originally we wanted to name her Rixt Anna. It’s my step-sister-in-law’s name. We just liked the name even though it is different. I’ve especially always liked Anna. Well, just before we named her we started talking about what her initials would be. R.A.G. Oh no! We couldn’t do that to her!!! Then we discovered we couldn’t name any child of ours with a vowel as a middle initial or it would make a word like beg, keg, leg, peg, pig, bag, hag, lag, sag, etc. We spent several minutes and many tears laughing about all the possibilities. Feel free to add more! I’m so happy we went with Kathleen since it’s a family name and I love it. Persistence is a Kate! Lara? Ok, that really is annoying after all.

Elisabeth Love – AKA, the nameless baby. Yes, that really is her middle name. You thought Love was a nickname didn’t you. I am still mad about Love’s name. I have always liked Love. I bought a music tape once by Lara Love. So when Love was due on Valentines Day, I had to name her Love, even though she came a week late on President’s Day. Chris wasn’t very happy about using Love but he let me get away with it. I think he’s still mad that we didn’t name all our kids color names, Violet, Plum, Sienna, Bronze, Ash, Ashley, etc. ANYWAY, we liked some names like Ellie, Ella, Elle, so we finally decided on Elisabeth two weeks after we came home from the Hospital. It’s a good thing my friend did the birth certificates so she let us take as long as we wanted which probably wasn’t REALLY such a good thing. Elisabeth has to have about 100 nicknames so you would think we could pick one. Oh no! Our baby Love is still pretty much nameless. No way am I going to have one of 1,000’s of other Ellie’s and Ella’s. When people ask me what her name is, I tell them it’s Elisabeth but I always call her Love. Weird. You don’t have to tell me. Everyone else already has but I think it’s Lovely.