It's funny, but I can't tell you how many people seem to think that Brady and I would have no trouble naming this little girl. It's our third girl after all. We must just be ROLLING in extra girl names at this point right?
Naming Cadence was easy. It had been my favorite name for many years. I got lucky and Brady liked it from day one and so we were set when we found out she was a girl.
Naming Rory was insanity! We went round and round and round with no names we both liked. I was going crazy, Cadence was calling her Violet, and Brady kept coming up with names that I felt were just awful. FINALLY a whole MONTH before Rory made her grand entrance into the world we agreed on her name. Cutting it a bit close, but we did finally get her named. Thankfully she came out looking like a Rory, or we would have been in trouble.
Now we are on girl number three. Honestly, had this baby been a boy we would have had just as much work to do. We had some ideas for a boy, but Brady and I haven't ever been in agreement on those either. With a girl though, we were starting completely from scratch. We had nothing. No ideas, and for the first few weeks after we found out she was a she we both just let it sit. Finally I pulled out the 100,000 plus baby name book and started with "A." I went through EVERY SINGLE NAME. Seriously. Took me over a week. I wrote down any name that I liked with no other considerations. When I was done I had a list of a little over 50 names. I handed that list over to Brady and told him to just go through and cross of anything he didn't like. When he was done we still had 25 names! Oy.
So we let it sit. After a week or so Brady decided we should get rid of all the R and C names to cut the list down (since we already have kids with C and R names). That cut it down a bit but not by much since there actually weren't any R names on the list. Next was anything that rhymed or was to "matchy" with the girls names. Nice. We still had 15 or so names...
Again we let it sit. I got back in gear after another week and put our last name with everything on the list. Should have done that sooner! lol The list went down by half once we got rid of the ones that just plain sounded wrong all together. At that point I felt we were down to a manageable list (eight names). We liked all of them and they went well with our last name. However I kept coming back to one name over and over. Oddly enough it wasn't my "favorite." Heck it wasn't even in my top four, but I kept coming back to it over and over. I would peek at the list and my eyes would just be drawn to it. It was actually starting to irritate me. I decided to give it more time and see if Brady came up with any he liked best.
Then Brady came home from work one day last week and told me that he had looked over the names again and that he liked a certain one best over the others. Can you guess what name it was?? Yep. The one I had been drawn too for no apparent reason at all. I laughed when he told me.
I can't describe the feeling really. The name just...fits. Almost like it was her name already and we were just now figuring it out, and to make the whole thing weirder whenever I say it out loud she kicks me.
So...long story all to tell everyone that our third little girl has a name!! And almost a whole THREE MONTHS before she is due. I mentioned it to my mom and the first thing she said was, "Wow. Thats early!" :o) I was surprised too Mom.
Lantz girl number three will be named...
We realize that we know a few Rebecca/Rebekah's. I can only think of one that actually goes by Becca. Oddly enough it doesn't bother me. You Rebecca/Rebekah's that we do know are awesome enough to think it was cool! :o) Added bonus is Cady loves it, and it sounds SOOOO stinking cute when Rory says it in her sweet little 2 year old voice.
We do have a back up name, just in case. I'm keeping that one under wraps because I am 100% sure that when we have this girl in our arms she will be Beckah. Still, it never hurts to be prepared!
We hope everyone is having an awesome Holiday season!
