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received by arms that ached, making empty hearts full.
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November 28, 2008

A Name

That is what our new son needs.

Zachary had been my favorite for awhile, but my husband wasn't too keen on it when I brought it up. Then, I was afraid that it was a little too popular for a little Vietnamese boy and began to like Seth instead. He did not.

He came up with the idea of Joshua on the way to have our fingerprints redone in September. I pointed out that it was our neighbor's (a little 9 yo Korean boy) name. Not that they can't have the same name, but.... He said OK, I will think of another.

His next was Joel, which I thought was OK, but I kept thinking of a disturbed student that I had by that name, even though I do know of 3 other Joels that are sweet little boys.

A couple of weeks ago, he brought up the idea of the name Jacob. I thought about it for a day or so and realized that I kind of like it. Jacob is THE most popular name in the US, so Joshua and Zachary being in the top 30 or so isn't as big a deal as I was originally thinking.

We agree that these are the 3 choices. We are also considering the poor child who will have to write a cursive Z. His middle name will be a combination of his Vietnamese first and middle names, we think.

PLEASE vote in the poll to the right.
What do you think?

6 comments:

Dawn said...

Well, I am very partial to Zachary. I love that name and so does my son - never complained about writing it out in print or cursive. P.S. I stole your tree widget - I just had to have it. LOL!

Dawn said...

No Problem ~ I stole it from someone myself! ;-)

Mommy to those Special Ks said...

I chose Jacob. I love that name!

Anonymous said...

Jacob is lovely. What about a VN option?

Barb Szyszkiewicz said...

I'm partial to Luke, myself :)

Dawn said...

We did consider Lucas ;-)