What's in a Name?

This originally said baby boy name. Nope. Totes a girl name. #EMMYKATE

Who knew there was so many ways to spell Emerson? I sure didn't! Now I'm wondering if we should explore any of these options!!

Facebook Name Reveal pt. 2

The actual reveal.

In order to 'punish' Kyle for forcing me against my will to announce our child's name, I made him post a hilarious joke name first. He wasn't too happy about it, but played along (just like I had to with his post.)

So after several hours of brainstorming (and many hours and work staring at my computer screen thinking 'it shouldn't be this hard to fake name your baby!') we came up with the PERFECT joke name.

So lets sound it out - Stellavae Deal. Stellava Deal. One more time - Steal of a Deal. 

Isn't Kyle's handwriting pretty? 

Anyone? No one? Sounds like our Facebook post. It totally backfired on me. While Stella is an ADORABLE name, it is just awful with Vae as a middle name and Deal as a last name. We would be begging for our kid to be picked on. 

I could NOT stop laughing once it was posted. Laughing so hard I was crying. Kyle just kept asking "can I go ahead and post the real name? Hasn't it been long enough? This is embarrassing." Hilarious? Yes. I am STILL giggling on the inside about it.

93 likes later - we announce it was a joke. I'm surprised that more people didn't get the joke. Once we sounded out the name, people were laughing along with us (as well and annoyed that we even joked about it in the first place.) Here are some of my favorite responses:

Tyler was in on it. 

Clearly.

Megan thought it was pretty genius.

No really, I did. Her girl name is Stella. I guess I owe her cookies ;)

Jenni was in on it too ;) Her husband (KK) was not. Juuuust kiiiiddding :)

And here is our REAL name reveal:

108 likes. It BARELY beat Stella's joke name. Sillies. 

 All joking aside, we truly do love her name and we can't wait for her to get here! Bring it on AUGUST!!

Facebook Name Reveal pt. 1

As some as you might know (aka, you've met me before) you know that I am INSANELY crazy about baby names. Like, legitimately. I have had a list of names picked out since Elementary school and I may or may not be a tad over protective about baby name thieves (here's a hint: I'm over protective of the names).

Now, that leaves a huge debate between Kyle and me. I want to keep the name a SECRET and he wants to tell EVERYONE! Does he realize that everyone and their mother is pregnant right now!? BECAUSE EVERYONE IS PREGNANT RIGHT NOW! And we have killer names. Someone will want to steal it. It's mine! And by mine, I mean... mine. Not my child, not Kyle, it's MY name. I know, like I said, I'm a little intense about it.

After a bit of discussion (argument) I gave into him posting this picture. (see below).

If he received 200 likes, then we could share it. That was just under a third of his Facebook friends. Surely that many people won't like it. I was wrong.

Should have made it 1000/

I never thought that people would be interested in what we were naming our daughter. Family? Sure. Close friends? Absolutely. Random ass strangers? Apparently. So the picture was posted and the likes began. 30 minutes in and we had almost 70. Shit. Okay, There's no way he'll get up to 200. We should have put a time limit on this. Damnit.

Seriously, who cares? It's our name - you'll find out eventually. It's not a big Deal (see what I did there?) Okay, so it was a big deal. We were proud of our name. We LOVED her name. And I wanted to keep it a secret (mostly to torture people, but also to prevent people from saying 'ohhh, that's um, unique..." or even worse STEALING IT [ya jackasses]). 

So by the next morning he was just mere 'likes' away from reaching his goal. By Monday evening, we had more than 200 likes and 114 shares. WHAT!? Seriously!? I have to divulge my (again, not her, my) baby name!? No. Why would I ever agree to this nonsense!? Clearly I was drugged when this Deal was made (please take that however you want - it is rather hilarious). In total (including people who liked the shared pictures) we had just over 600 likes.

Uncle Cody (Kyle's brother) got the most 'likes' after Kyles picture. Over 200. What. the. what. WHY!? 

So there we have it. I lost fair and square. In 48 short hours my hopes and dreams of keeping this name a secret were shattered. 

Wrong you are sir, apparently everyone cares.