I've been meaning to blog about it, and just haven't gotten around to it, but Kat's comment the other day has motivated me to get on it.
When I was pregnant with Amelia, Ken and I called her Wazel (rhymes with Hazel). We had picked out a name, but didn't want to share it with anyone until she was born, so we called her Wazel (hopefully you faithful readers remember why . . . I have no energy for repeating our reasoning).
So what are we calling this baby? Just about anything. But mostly it's a repeat of Wazel, or Squeaker #2, or "the baby". Boring, huh?
But the real problem comes with the baby's real name. Ken and I can't agree on the ones we like (although we're pretty unanimous about the ones we don't like). And the names we do agree on, don't go well with Schnell . . . like Sophie or Isabella . . . can't start with "s" or have too many "l's". Or maybe they sound too much like Amelia . . . and I wouldn't want people thinking they were twins or that we were really stuck on names that ended with "ia".
Ken likes original names while I'm partial to something more old-fashioned. For those of you done naming your children, or perhaps like a name you couldn't use, does anyone have any suggestions?
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5 comments:
you got me. i think naming babies is so hard. good luck though!
I loved the came Caroline but Dave didn't. We settled on Abby (not Abigail), although we had a last-minute tug-of-war about her middle name as we sat in the hospital with the paperwork in front of us.
I love Olivia, Jenna, Jill (hate Jillian though so that's probably why we don't have one as I felt like we needed a mult syllable first name to go with the one syllable last name.)
I do understand the names that are too alike. We've gotten A LOT of of comments about Sierra and Savanna, but you know, I wouldn't change a thing going back, so go with what you love.
How about Tessa Schnell? Or Abigail, or Brooke or Lyla? I think Lyla Schnell is adorable!
We almost used the name Savannah, but grandma Irish didn't like it--she thought it sounded like a cigar. :)
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