Baby Names

Why are baby names so hard to pick, especially boys names?!  With Nathan and Elizabeth and Andersen...we are wanting some originality here (don't get us wrong, we love our names), but at the same time you don't want the name to scar or haunt the child for the rest of his life.  Plus if the child is cool then his unique name totally adds to his coolness but on the contrary...

The top two names that we are thinking of this time around are:

Soren McKay Andersen or Kelton McKay Andersen

...still with possibilities of others

Soren is a family history name, on both sides of our family actually, so that's fun.  

Kelton is just one we heard and liked.

With Harlow, Nathan had always wanted to name his son Harlow.  It is his grandpa's name and Nathan's middle name; I guess there was even a time in Junior High that he tried to go by Harlow, it just never stuck.  When Nathan brought up Harlow to me I wasn't terribly excited at first.  'Harlow' - it made me think of an old man, maybe that's because the only Harlow I'd known/heard of was Nathan's grandpa.  But I could tell Nathan REALLY liked it so I set to work trying to find a middle name that I liked that would flow with it.  I had a student named Whitley where I taught who was just so cute and my little doll of a sister named Whitney (but the kid can't be completely named after his aunt!) I liked how the names fit together and I had had enough time to moll over 'Harlow' and I actually became pretty excited about it.  And now I LOVE his name.  It fits him so well.  Nathan has said how tricky it is to name this next baby, it was easy with Harlow cause he just loved that name so much and had always wanted it...He wants to love the other names just as much...We'll see what ends up happening with this new little one when he arrives in a few weeks.