Baby Names

So in the spirit of the new blog. I have decided to add my first post. So yes, this is Matt, or as my blogger friends call me, The Guitar Hero (I am really not that good. Have you seen the 5 and 8 year olds on youtube?).

Baby names. I have two sisters that are expecting right now. Both have now found out what they are having. So, of course, the next question is, "Do you have a name picked out?" I mean, come on, it has been 2 minutes since you told me you are having a baby boy, that's old news. What's the name going to be?

Of course the first suggestion from the loving uncle is, "You know, Matt is a good strong name. Everybody loves Matt." Everyone laughs. Alright, I laugh. But seriously, what is the name going to be?

For first time parents (good luck Carie and Robby) the experience is great. You go out and buy the book of 500,000 baby names. As you scan the book, all you see are names that you would never use. Process of elimination? Ouch!

Then the next step, you start paying attention to what other people are naming their children. Mountain, Apple, Tundra (isn't that the truck from World of Warcraft?), Seven, Pilot Inspektor (thanks Jason Lee), and all of the other celebrity baby names we have come to enjoy. Or you can take the route of a friend of mine, pick the name from the ingredient list of a shampoo bottle. Come on, are you serious? Can't we do better then that? "Hey, Yellow Dye #5, get over here" Really people!

Ok, so here is what you do. Ask another little kid. It's brilliant! We did it for our last child. We knew it was a girl, we had no options, and the time had come. So, turn to the boys. Alright kids, you are going to have a baby sister, what name do you want to be yelling when you are chasing her down. Sam was the first to speak, "Ellie", he shouted out. And there you go. We had our name.

So listen up Niki and Carie. Here are the names our kids came up with when we asked them a couple nights ago.

• Jake
• Sam
  
• Josh
  
• Mark
• Evie (Ellie gets a little confused)

Then we reminded them it had to be a good match with the last name. Here are the good ones, celebrities in the making. Absolutely no coaching, we just let them start talking. Sam came up with the best ones. Just yesterday he started calling Ellie Saquajawia all day and common names for Josh are Turbo and Frolipe.

• Clown (goes great with Brown)
• Optimus
• Jazz
• Bacon
• Broom

And the winner of the night, from Sam again.....
Lightning Mc'Brown (you're welcome Carie)

There you go. Naming a child, what a strange, strange experience.