It's a BOY!!!

Yes, so I realized I should have posted this a long time ago, but I figured everyone would know we are having a boy from the baby countdown on our blog.

So after we found out we are having a boy we started to get more serious about choosing a name. After much deliberation we picked a name! The name of the first Florence in our family is… is… is… (click here to see the name!)

It’s not final yet, but we both really like it. Here’s how we came up with the name:

We compiled a list of about 500 boy names from the Internet and went through each name and removed the weird ones and the ones we knew we didn't like. We narrowed it down to about 40 names that we could choose from for any of our future children (don’t worry, we’re not planning on having forty boys ;-)). Then we narrowed it down again to about 14 just keeping the ones we’d like for our firstborn. We each took a copy of this list and separately ranked the names and added our two rankings. Calvin came in first. We talked about which of the top names we liked, but after contemplating it we started to both really like the name. It's also a family name—Trevor and I both have a great uncle Calvin. It's not something we think people would misspell (that was important to us) or mispronounce (another thing we wanted), but it definitely isn't a common name so he won't have three other students in his class with the same name. I remember having two other Lindsay's in my 1st grade class and so I had to go by Lindsay B., which was hard because there was also a Lindsay P. and those sounded awfully similar (I absolutely love my name, though, don't misunderstand me!). Trevor and I both commented that when we woke up that morning, we never imagined our first son would be named Calvin, but we both really like it.

Samuel is a family name on both sides of our family. It is my Grandpa Walker's middle name and Trevor's Great Grandpa, Grandpa, Dad, and brother's middle name (they are all Henry Samuel I, II, etc.); Henry Senior’s father’s name is also Samuel. Trevor’s brother, Hank, will still name their son Henry Samuel Florence V, but to me it isn't a big deal. I mean, I think I counted 6 people with the middle name of "Walker" in our family? That's just including my generation.

We've already searched the Internet and thought about potential name-calling in school, ex-convicts with that name, etc. and couldn't find anything. I was a little wary because of "Calvin and Hobbes", but we figure kids his generation won't be as familiar with the comic seeing as they don't make new comics anymore, and those who are familiar with it love Calvin!

So as you can see, we have really thought about this, please don't try to make us change our minds. I think it would make us go crazy trying to go through the process again right now!

Here's a picture of Trevor and I comparing bellies.