It's a boy. I knew it; it felt like a boy. Then again, I never had that feeling with the others so I was just as ready to be wrong as we went in to the ultrasound. He is healthy and growing at a normal pace, so not ginormous like Max was! Max is excited to have a brother but I think he would have been just fine with another sister, because he is just an easy going kid. Part of me is relieved that Mae will not have to share cause that doesn't seem to be a part of her personality, but who knows maybe it would have been good for her. I am bit surprised by people's reaction. Most people are just happy for us, my dad is thrilled, but some people have actually expressed their disappointment. Really? That just makes us feel awkward....um sorry.
Anyhoo, we are happy. Maybe it was a sign that we couldn't come up with a girl name we felt right about. Jeff liked Lauren, but I have known to many snotty Laurens, and we both liked Eve but it didn't go well with the chosen middle name of Jeanne. So it was all for the best that we are having a boy. If you all can remember when I had Max the labor wasn't bad, but the recovery was awful! Jeff was there for me going above and beyond what any husband should have to do. It was then that I decided that if we had another boy I would like to name him after my wonderful husband. Jeff is okay with this but sometimes feels a little weird, I think he is worried people will assume he is arrogant. As for the unusual middle name, Spike, we are dead serious. Deal with it.
Before I get into the story I just want to say for the record that if you don't like it TUFF! In the last few years I have learned that you just can't account for taste when it comes to baby names. Where do people come up with these things? Will the kids get teased? Maybe, or maybe that name will be cool cause the kid is cool. At one school I went to the coolest kid was named Tucker. Really, Tucker, and what does that rhyme with? Why does everyone have to make up weird spellings, it doesn't make kids unique it just pisses off their teachers and makes it so they will never be able to buy pencils with their names on it. What it comes down to is people are gonna choose what they want and it doesn't do any good to tell them you don't like it cause then you just seem like a douche. So that being said, there are many of you out there that I have down right LIED to your face about liking your kids name and if you have the guts to criticize my kids then the gloves will come off.
So we needed a middle name and we weren't a big fan of Jeff's middle name Ronald. Don't hate it just wasn't in love with it. So we thought of family names but came up empty. J is a hard letter to follow initial wise cause we really hate JJ's or JR's or JB's (except the resturant JB'S that has the awesome Pizookies!) I then thought of my dad. When I was a small girl he used to tease my sister and me about our names. He said if we had been boys we would have been named Butch, Spike, and Ace. Now Butch has a much different connotation today then it did thirty years ago, and Ace sounds a little bit too prison stab you with a shiv in the shower. But Spike just sounded right to me. In a way, this is the second kid of mine that will get a middle name after my sister Krista. Guess it's a good thing she's my best friend. Is it a bit out there? Sure, but his first name will be Jeffrey. We are happy to be having Spike and hope everyone will be happy with us. We are going to call him Spike. When we enroll him in school I will enroll him as Spike. We are hoping that if we are blessed enough to have Jeff's aunt Marty knit us another amazing stocking it will be labeled Spike, cause for all intents and purposes that will be his name. And we couldn't be happier.
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as a mother who doesn't want to have a boy only because she doesn't want to deal with her husband's name-he's the 5th and there doesn't need to be a 6th in my opinion-you go girl! it's your baby so the only votes that count are well, you and Jeff!
Spike is awesome. And amen about names. Who decides coolness or non-coolness anyway?
and congrats on a boy!!
"ace is a little too prison".
Remember the cute onesie that you made for Quincy that said, "quincy is a girls name"...you should make one that says, "Spike is a baby name".
There really aren't a lot of people out there that dislike their own name. I think kids grow into whatever name they're given. Have you considered making it his first name, since you're going to call him Spike? I only say this since Aaron is a middle-namer and just wishes it was his first name...espeicially when people call and try to sound extra friendly by asking if "Jim" is available. Who the crap is Jim? No, you have the wrong number. 2 minutes later, they call back and ask for "James" and I pretend to be a different person answering the phone ;)
Congrats! I'm happy for you, and I'm happy for Jeff. I remember you telling me during the first few days after you had Max how wonderfully Jeff had taken care of you, and I think it's great that your baby gets to be named after him, too.
i always lie and say I love people's baby names (and crazy spellings), and i assume people are telling the truth when they say they love my children's names. ;) (it's all about me!)
we were thinking of having Rex be our boy's middle name, and doing the whole go-by-your-middle-name-thing, then opted for naming him Rex as a first name. mostly so I wouldn't get confused.
congratulations.
I will say for the record that we LOVE LOVE LOVE the name REX! When I heard you guys had picked that name, I thought well of course she would pick an awesome name.
There is the whole weird going by the second name thing, but the whole point is that he is named after his father, but then it would be weird to have two Jeffs. And I can say for the record that I HATE juniors.
@Liz Jeff and I both saw your comment and thought the 5th that is Awesome! I would totally go along with a 5th I mean that is commitment. But again to each his own.
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