Naming Baby

Well, after months of tossing around, eliminating, and picking and unpicking names, we have finally settled on one for our new baby boy.

Drum roll, please…

We are planning to name him Jeremy Dylan Wilkes.

Jeff has been rolling his eyes at my neuroses-driven approach to naming this baby, but this is a name with which we are both very happy.  Jeff is the type of baby-namer who hears the “perfect” name and just knows that it’s the one.  It took him a long time with this one, which didn’t worry him in the least.  He knew we would eventually find it.

Me?  I really wanted this baby named about 15 minutes after our November ultrasound!  After all, we settled on Charlotte’s name within days of finding out she was a girl, and Elijah had been named since we found out we were pregnant with Charlotte.  We evidently had used our only boy name though, because naming this one has been hard.

For me, I wanted something that matched or at least complemented our other boy’s name.  Jeremy is a derivative of Jeremiah; both names are Hebrew in origin and mean “exalted of the Lord.”  Elijah means “Jehovah is God,” so I was happy with that congruity.  Jeremy also has three syllables, like Elijah, and, furthermore (insert eye roll by Jeff here), our children will be named in alphabetical order!

What could be better?!  (More eye rolls by Jeff.  But he’s been married to me and my OCD tendencies for a long time, so it’s all in good fun…I think!)

Today, I picked up some burp cloths that I had had embroidered with Jeremy’s name, so, hopefully, he is, indeed, a boy and doesn’t come out telling us that he’s supposed to be named something else. 

In other news, we picked out carpet last Saturday, and our insurance settlement check arrived later that afternoon.  Jeff got a call yesterday afternoon that the carpet had come in, so hopefully it will be installed sometime next week!  Our basement project is finally back on track.

Last Friday, while I was scrapbooking at a friend’s house, Jeff and the kids set up the crib.  So, Jeremy will have someplace to sleep when he comes home.  Jeff also managed to talk the kids into sleeping in the basement, concrete floors and all.  Amazing, but good for them to get accustomed to it.  Soon, they will have beautiful new carpet (selected by them, with a little guidance from us) and new bedroom furniture, which has to be a world better than what they’re in now!

Maybe, just maybe, we’ll actually be settled in this house by the time the baby comes.  We shall see!