Question #13

13.Post the list of potential baby names that you seriously considered, but can no longer use because someone stole it/it became too popular/whatever reason.

Shannon:
We actually had no probably choosing our baby names. And, because they are so traditional, not many people are even using them anymore. One friend is going to name her way-in-the-future daughter with the same first name, but it is no biggie to me. We wanted traditional first names that could have a LOT of different nicknames and we are going to carry down our middle names. Boy = Alexander Douglas; girl = Elizabeth Ivy.

Mrs Red:
I gave up on picking out names. My husband said nothing anyone we know is named so that automatically eliminated a ton of names right off the bat. Then he said nothing too 'white' and I don't want a Spanish name that I can't pronounce. Talking about names for our kids has become mostly a debate because he wants names his parents can say (they don't speak english very well) and I want a name I can say... After all they are MY future children lol. We picked a few names out when our friends asked... They used one of our favorite names for their daughter. Isabella, they spelled it different but same name... So that's out. They want their next son Eric which was one name we liked so that's probably out too. So when we get pregnant we will use those last 4 months to come up with a name :-) oh and they told my mom I was going to be a boy do before my name was Steph, it was supposed to be Seth lol

Ashley:
We don't really have any set names. I have a list of names for each sex that I like but we haven't seriously sat down and said "this is what we want for sure." My husband will bring up a name now and then if he likes it and we'll briefly talk about it, otherwise we don't don't talk about it. I guess there used to be a couple names I wanted for sure but throughout the past two years I've become more open and flexible to names - just assuming that someone close to us uses one of the names I like - since everyone is having babies besides us. I think this is a way of protecting myself too so I don't get upset anymore than I already have been throughout this process.