Michael & Liz are Bloggable

Before getting pregnant, I thought naming our baby would be extremely easy. We started talking about baby names years ago, even before we were married. I think if we were having a girl, we'd have been done months ago. Naming a boy on the other hand, has proven much more difficult.

Imagine how many times in your life you say or write your name. It's kind of a big deal. I mean even on a day full of nothing, you probably have to say, write, or hear your name at least 10 times. 3000 times a year maybe? 54,000 times by the time you graduate high school. And that's on the low end of my estimate.

Nicknames, middle names, inherited names, names that flow, difficult to say names, names that rhyme with dirty words, initials that don't spell out something funny like "BUF". There's a lot to consider.

But I think Liz and I have finally come to a decision. We'll be keeping it a secret until our boy is born. Now we just have to continue to mull it over and decide if the decision we've come to is the right one.

Oh, and continue to keep it a secret, that won't be an easy task either. We've heard stories of people who start calling their baby by their name before their born, and then accidentally say it around other people. We are totally the kind of people to do that. We'll try and be careful.