We Picked A Name!

Can I get a Halleluiah?

It’s been 6 weeks since we found out that we are having a girl. Ever since that joyous occasion we have been wracking our brains for the perfect name. It was driving me absolutely mad that we didn’t have one picked out. If had to say “baby girl” one more time I was going to scream. I am a planner by nature, so not having this major detail finalized was going to push me over the edge. And Peter, of course, was saying things like: “what’s the rush?” and “we haven’t even met her yet, so how can we name her?” Somebody kill me now, if he thinks I am going to wait till I meet our baby to give her a name. Most people mistakenly think I am super laid back because I practice yoga. No, yoga keeps me sane, keeps me from being even more uptight than I normally I am. Or people think, maybe because we are having a home birth, I would wait till I met her to pick her name. I may be having a home birth, but I am type A all the way in other regards. I have got things to do! I need to register. I need to monogram stuff. And I just needed to know.

We had narrowed it down to 6 names about a month ago and were very slowly crossing off names. On our trip to California, I tried a new tactic. Every time I would bring up baby girl, I would insert one of the proposed names in the sentence instead of saying baby girl. It worked beautifully, he immediately said “yuck, not that one” for the first name I threw in. This tactic got us down to two names. So then I decided to pull out the big guns. I was going to annoy the crap out of Peter until he made a decision. I would call him at work 4 times a day and ask if he picked a name yet. After just two days of this, he gave up and said “Ok, we will have a name picked by the time my mom gets here!” Yes! Just what I wanted to hear. If he commits to a deadline, he is in trouble-because there is nothing that will make me let him slide if he makes me a promise. So as we are driving to the airport--he is a last minute kind of guy--he says “lets name her Penelope.” Thank you, Jesus!! He picked a name! The name I wanted!


Baby girl is now Penelope. And I couldn’t be happier.