Names!

Names are a very tricky thing! And the more kids you have the trickier it is. We had Caleb and Braeden picked out before we go married. Kylee we picked out before we were married also but I tried to change it when I was pregnant with her. When I was pregnant with Braeden we had picked out the name Mackenzie Jean if he had been a girl.

When we found out baby #4 was on the way I knew I did not want to use the name Mackenzie. I also knew we had not thought about a boys name in 7 years!! And girls name had always been a battle!  So I started throwing names out. Brad does not usually suggest names but will say yes or no to names. And so it began

Lilah, Lucy, Ava, Eden, and it went on and on and on. Finally after 7 years of being adamently against the name Charlotte I said to him if we name her Charlotte we can call her Charlie like Charlie Sheen and he was sold! Ummm his reason may not have been great but I was willing to take it to use such an awesome name! Then to come up with a middle name. I had a friend who passed away whose last name was Laurie. So to honor him I decided on Laurel. And so if #4 is a girl she will be Charlotte Laurel.

And then came boys names, it was many months Jonah, Seth, Collin, Micah, Graham. His middle name was set we just needed to pick a first name. It finally came down to Graham and Bennett. Before I was born my mom rented a room in a boarding house frome a woman named Inez Bennett. She was like another grandmother to me. She passed away 10 years ago but I wanted to honor her and so his name was chosen. If this baby is a boy he will be Bennett Cahill.