I wish I was a single parent just until I could name the kid

[olivekit]

I have two daughters [name]Courtney[/name] [name]Olive[/name], called [name]Olive[/name] and [name]Kit[/name] [name]Aurora[/name]. Expecting 3rd daughter any day now.

Conversations with my soon to be ex-husband (just kidding)

ME: [name]How[/name] about [name]Mae[/name]?
HUBBY: Like [name]Mae[/name] [name]West[/name]?

ME: [name]How[/name] about [name]Mabel[/name]?
HUBBY: Are you giving birth to a 90 year old woman?

ME: [name]Sunday[/name], nn [name]Sunny[/name]
HUBBY: Cute, but only if she is born on a [name]Sunday[/name]. (Not likely going to happen since dr says he’s going to induce on Friday if I don’t go into Labor by then)

ME: [name]Phoebe[/name]
HUBBY: No
ME: Why?
HUBBY: [name]Just[/name] doesn’t sound good.

ME: [name]Mira[/name]?
HUBBY: Mirror?
ME: No. [name]Mira[/name]. (Dang, he has a point.)

ME: [name]Miri[/name]?
HUBBY: Like [name]Miri[/name] and [name]Zach[/name] make a porn.
Me: Never mind.

ME: [name]Cleo[/name]
HUBBY: Ew.

ME: [name]Georgia[/name]
HUBBY: No.
ME: Why not?
HUBBY: Because we LIVE in [name]Georgia[/name].

ME: [name]Luna[/name]
HUBBY: [name]Do[/name] we speak Spanish?
ME: um, no.
HUBBY: Then no.

ME: [name]Lulu[/name] (nn for [name]Luna[/name])
HUBBY: Are we naming a pet or a kid?

HUBBY: What do you need that big knife for?

haha. [name]Just[/name] wanted to get my frustrations out!!!

Seriously, I’m not sure how we ever agreed on [name]Olive[/name] and [name]Kit[/name].

[cora]

Thanks for the laugh! That was great!

You know, there was a blog entry on Nameberry recently written by a father of twins who gave his wife a really hard time about naming the babies. She eventually wrote a list of ten names, and he was forced to pick two from the list.

Please keep us posted!

[nephele]

[name]How[/name] did you ever get him to agree to [name]Courtney[/name] [name]Olive[/name] and [name]Kit[/name] [name]Aurora[/name]? lol

– [name]Nephele[/name]

[phaedrap]

hahaha, thank you soooo much for that laugh. I’m going through the same thing right now. Last night we had this conversation:

ME: Okay, so you like [name]Georgia[/name]. Are there other names you like?
DH: Yes.
ME: Like what?
DH: I don’t know.
ME: …
DH: I haven’t really thought about it.
ME: Well, is [name]Georgia[/name] the only name you like then?
DH: No, it was just something that came to mind.
ME: Well, you don’t seem to like any of my names.
DH: It’s not that I don’t like them. You just have a thousand.
ME: …

etc etc etc

Oh, he also told me he likes [name]Melanie[/name], which is my real name. That’s awesome! If it were 1977.

[cora]

“Oh, he also told me he likes [name]Melanie[/name], which is my real name. That’s awesome! If it were 1977.”

LOL!

[olivekit]

@nephele

[name]How[/name] did you ever get him to agree to [name]Courtney[/name] [name]Olive[/name] and [name]Kit[/name] [name]Aurora[/name]? lol

– [name]Nephele[/name]

Her name was going to be [name]Courtney[/name] or [name]Kendall[/name], but I had a dream where she told me, her name was [name]Olive[/name]. I told my husband, who loved the name and I was like, I’m not naming my baby [name]Olive[/name], but he persisted and got his way and I can’t imagine any other name for her.

With [name]Kit[/name], we called the baby [name]Kit[/name] when I was pregnant b/c we didn’t know if she was a boy or a girl. We were having so many conversations like the one above trying to figure out what to name her, and [name]Olive[/name] came in and met her sister for the first time and said, “[name]Hi[/name], [name]Kit[/name].” So we chose [name]Kit[/name]. I asked her what she thought we should name this baby, and [name]Olive[/name] said, “[name]Jimmy[/name].” [name]Kit[/name] wants to name the baby “Ooh La La”. So neither of them are any help this time.

[olivekit]

@phaedrap

hahaha, thank you soooo much for that laugh. I’m going through the same thing right now. Last night we had this conversation:

ME: Okay, so you like [name]Georgia[/name]. Are there other names you like?
DH: Yes.
ME: Like what?
DH: I don’t know.
ME: …
DH: I haven’t really thought about it.
ME: Well, is [name]Georgia[/name] the only name you like then?
DH: No, it was just something that came to mind.
ME: Well, you don’t seem to like any of my names.
DH: It’s not that I don’t like them. You just have a thousand.
ME: …

etc etc etc

Oh, he also told me he likes [name]Melanie[/name], which is my real name. That’s awesome! If it were 1977.

Haha. Very funny. I’m glad I’m not the only one.

[olivekit]

@jill

Thanks for the laugh! That was great!

You know, there was a blog entry on Nameberry recently written by a father of twins who gave his wife a really hard time about naming the babies. She eventually wrote a list of ten names, and he was forced to pick two from the list.

Please keep us posted!

Thanks. I just read it, (glad to see my husband isn’t the only pain in the butt) but that was my list of 10.

[susan]

I think the trick is to pick several names - maybe seven or eight that you really love and keep casually mentioning them to your husband/partner. Eventually he will like at least one of them because he will get used to it. That’s how my husband started liking [name]Veronica[/name] and [name]Vincent[/name].
But if you throw dozens of names at him, he doesn’t get used to one that’s familiar.
It’s kind of the way my husband has an obsession with baseball and wants me to enjoy it with him. If he talked about all the teams all the time, I would get bewildered. But he talks about the Dodgers most of the time and mainly about Ethier, [name]Manny[/name], [name]Matt[/name] Kemp, Odog, and Furcal. That’s about all I can take at a time.

[lyndsayjenness]

LOL. I’ve had that conversation a million times! [name]Susan[/name] is totally right, just keep mentioning the few you REALLY love over and over, and he’ll come around eventually! My husband used to HATE [name]Beatrix[/name], now it’s one of his favorites. That happened with bunches of names, I just can’t remember any others right now. We had this conversation today:

Me: So you like [name]Felicity[/name]?
Him: Yeah, I like it kind of a lot.
Me: Is it your new favorite?
Him: Hmm, I really like [name]Fiona[/name].
Me: What? I thought you hated [name]Fiona[/name]
Him: Oh, I meant [name]Penelope[/name]

And we have these conversations every day, I think I drive him crazy. He says, “I could never talk to you this much about video games, you’d just ignore me.” I’m not even pregnant, although he thinks I am.

[nephele]

@olivekit

[quote=nephele][name]How[/name] did you ever get him to agree to [name]Courtney[/name] [name]Olive[/name] and [name]Kit[/name] [name]Aurora[/name]? lol

– [name]Nephele[/name]

We were having so many conversations like the one above trying to figure out what to name her, and [name]Olive[/name] came in and met her sister for the first time and said, “[name]Hi[/name], [name]Kit[/name].” So we chose [name]Kit[/name]. [/quote]

That’s such a cute story, that [name]Kit[/name] was ultimately named by her sister [name]Olive[/name]!

In honor of both [name]Olive[/name] and [name]Kit[/name], I suggest the following anagram as a name for their new baby sister (which your hubby will no doubt dislike - lol):

[name]Kandi[/name] [name]Violet[/name]
(anagram of “[name]Olive[/name] and [name]Kit[/name]”)

– [name]Nephele[/name]

[Jemma]

Thats really tough! Maybe you should both make a list of a certain number of names, and only be aloud to cross off a certain number of names on each other’s lists. Then you’ll have a list of names that neither of you hate to choose from.
Our problem is that whenever I come up with a name, he has an example of a person with that name ready, as if to say, “why are we naming our baby after her?”

[name]How[/name] about [name]Vivica[/name]?

Like [name]Vivica[/name] [name]Fox[/name]?

[name]How[/name] about [name]Macy[/name]?

Like [name]Macy[/name] [name]Grey[/name]?

[name]How[/name] about [name]Scarlet[/name]?

Like [name]Scarlet[/name] Johannson?

[ricamaca]

@jemma

Thats really tough! Maybe you should both make a list of a certain number of names, and only be aloud to cross off a certain number of names on each other’s lists. Then you’ll have a list of names that neither of you hate to choose from.
Our problem is that whenever I come up with a name, he has an example of a person with that name ready, as if to say, “why are we naming our baby after her?”

[name]How[/name] about [name]Vivica[/name]?

Like [name]Vivica[/name] [name]Fox[/name]?

[name]How[/name] about [name]Macy[/name]?

Like [name]Macy[/name] [name]Grey[/name]?

[name]How[/name] about [name]Scarlet[/name]?

Like [name]Scarlet[/name] Johannson?

This post makes me feel so amazing right now Thank you OliveKit!
My husband always has a “witty” remark for everything…
i.e.

Me- [name]Do[/name] you like [name]Waverly[/name]?
Hubby - Nope…You can [name]Waverly[/name] goodbye to that one…Get it?
Me - slaps forehead [name]How[/name] about [name]Eliza[/name]?
Hubby - I don’t hate, but it doesn’t make the list in my book…Not that I have a book.
Me - [name]Linden[/name]?
Hubby - Not the greatest but I don”t hate it, but wouldn”t use it.
Me - [name]Bluebell[/name]? (I don’t actually like, but I was getting frustrated )
Hubby - If we get a cow, sure.

[phaedrap]

lol, hilarious.

My hubby didn’t want to name our son [name]Peter[/name] because it reminded him of … the [name]Brady[/name] Bunch. Eh?

[scarlettsmom]

This is too funny ladies… my best friend actually said the same thing about naming her second son (for the first she actually was single so she got to choose whatever she wanted, but with the second she had to compromise with her husband, LOL.)

I think I will be in the same boat, I don’t know how we managed to agree on our first child’s name (probably because a third party suggested it) but we will never be able to agree again.

[moxielove]

I [name]LOVE[/name] YOU ALL!!!

This has become my experience exactly!! I told my husband that if he wants to share the naming responsibility, he has to start participating above and beyond the Veto Level.

I found it was best to pick two names I absolutely love and present those to him. He’s getting more and more used to my favorite ([name]Isis[/name] - although it helped when he saw a photo of [name]Isis[/name] Casalduc, a former Miss Puerto [name]Rico[/name]!).

In truthfulness it’s probably best that I’m NOT single until birth b/c I may come up with some off the wall names…

[susan]

OliveKit, I told my husband about this thread. He thought it was really funny because both times when I was pregnant, my husband and I had difficult name conversations.
Anyway, he thought of a great way to think of a name for your new baby. Since [name]Olive[/name] thought of [name]Kit[/name]'s name, [name]Kit[/name] could think of the new baby’s name!

[olivekit]

This post makes me feel so amazing right now Thank you OliveKit!
My husband always has a “witty” remark for everything…
i.e.

Me- [name]Do[/name] you like [name]Waverly[/name]?
Hubby - Nope…You can [name]Waverly[/name] goodbye to that one…Get it?
Me - slaps forehead [name]How[/name] about [name]Eliza[/name]?
Hubby - I don’t hate, but it doesn’t make the list in my book…Not that I have a book.
Me - [name]Linden[/name]?
Hubby - Not the greatest but I don”t hate it, but wouldn”t use it.
Me - [name]Bluebell[/name]? (I don’t actually like, but I was getting frustrated )
Hubby - If we get a cow, sure.[/quote]

I think our husbands might be related. Thanks for sharing!

[olivekit]

@susan

Anyway, he thought of a great way to think of a name for your new baby. Since [name]Olive[/name] thought of [name]Kit[/name]'s name, [name]Kit[/name] could think of the new baby’s name!

We love that idea, but she wants to name the baby, “[name]Baby[/name] Ooh la la”. I don’t think so.

[susan]

@olivekit

[quote=susan]Anyway, he thought of a great way to think of a name for your new baby. Since [name]Olive[/name] thought of [name]Kit[/name]'s name, [name]Kit[/name] could think of the new baby’s name!

We love that idea, but she wants to name the baby, “[name]Baby[/name] Ooh la la”. I don’t think so. :)[/quote]
Hmmm…sounds a lot like [name]Oona[/name]!