On Naming a Babe

You guys. Why is it that in Jr. High one can have a plethora of perfect baby names (in far greater numbers than one wants to have children) and then suddenly you are pregnant and you have NOTHING?! 

*okay, not nothing, it just feels like it

**also, I know we have time, lots of time, to figure out a name, but come on, it would be fun to know beforehand 

So. Naming... And why are girls names so much harder?! Boys are so easy! We had too many boy names picked out (first and middle, mind you) and alas, here we are having a girl. And we agree on like 2 names, but I don't feel like either of us particularly loves any of them?

Rambling. Yesterday I was thinking of our #1 name as of late and every possible scenario she would be in where there is the potential for name awkwardness. For example, telling your name to the person in Gandolfo's who is making your sandwich. Or the first day of school (will it be too long to even fit on the roll? Southworth is prettttty long already and we wouldn't want an awkward half name. But maybe they don't have this problem anymore because everything is probably on the computer anyways? Does anybody know this? Can you ease my mind about giving our child a long name?) Or when she is getting proposed to? _______ will you marry me? Does that sound good? Could she potentially have the same name as her future husband? (We think about these things around here. Kim & Kim are Bryson's parent's names.) What if she starts her own brand? Is her name going to look good on a label? What if she's a lawyer and needs a name that sounds super sophisticated? And will people really think of the anime character every time they meet her? I mean, am I over thinking this?

Help.

Monday Sunnies

• Baby is a kicker! Especially between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. Sometimes we watch her move under my skin and it is the coolest/weirdest thing I have ever experienced in my life. Also, my momma got to feel her move for the first time last night and that was pretty cool.
• Tiger Butter caramel apples from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. OHHHHMYYGOSHHH. I can't handle the amazing-ness of it all. And Bryson is on a diet so I got the whole thing to myself. Muahahahaha.
  

  

  i can't look at this picture without wanting one

• In my darkest days of pregnancy, I listened to this song on repeat while lying on the bathroom floor. It kind of became "our song" (the baby's and mine, mine and the baby's?). It got me through some tough times. Well, it came on Pandora the other day and baby girl started dancing up a storm! I like to think that she knows it's our special thing.

• We're down to about 100 days left! Who wants to make a paper chain with me? Every 10 days we'll go get a celebratory apple :)