….to come up with a name for the third child?
And why, oh why, are the websites so darned useless? Bigger is better, apparently, but who can process 5,000 names, let alone 27,000???? You open a web site, intending to start at the beginning, and after three pages of “Aa” your eyes begin to glaze over, and you realize…this is just not going to work.
The best site I’ve found is www.Nymbler.com, because it gives you a 3-by-5-column chart with a mix of names (and most of them are normal ones). But even at that, it’s just plain hard to name a third child. I like one, Christian doesn’t. Christian likes one, and it is the name of a person I couldn’t stand, long before I ever met him. And so on.
Ah well, we’ve still got four weeks and three days. But who’s counting? 🙂
Kathleen M. Basi 
What a neat web site! I’ve never seen that one. Kinda fun to see the names they come up with based on my favorites…really more of my favorites… I also like to look based on a group, such as christian names, or hebrew names, or german names, etc, etc. I agree though, way too many choices! But we have already chosen a name, we seem to be able to choose a lot easier than many of our friends… But this time we are keeping it a surprise. We’ll see how long that lasts though, William has been begging to know what her name is!! 🙂
What’s your due date, again?
I know that some people have an easy time choosing names…we were joking with my sister-in-law a few weeks ago, before their second was born, about how some friends of theirs made a “top ten” list and they were virtually identical, whereas *their* top ten lists were more like “my favorites = your most hated.”
June 28th.
We actually do usually agree. We both tend to lean towards conservative, traditional, classical names. And neither one of us does well with nicknames, not sure why. I kinda wanted to give Elizabeth a nickname, but nothing really stuck. I usually have a few more ideas than Bill, and he has no qualms about crossing them off the list! But usually we find one we both like. With this one, we actually chose a different name than I would have suspected. We’ve had 2 girl names picked out since before we even had our first baby, one of which we used for Elizabeth Jean, but we ended up choosing a completely different name for this girl… Maybe we’ll use the other for a 3rd girl, we still like it, just changed our minds for this one. It was that way with Andrew too.
And that is why sometimes babies don’t have names for almost 24 hours….
🙂 Which I almost added to the end of that comment, and then decided I wouldn’t. In any case, you came up with a bee-yewtiful name!
I know of one family that didn’t finalize the baby’s name and birth certificate paperwork until he was a week old!