Names. Final. Maybe.

OK, seeing as we have somewhere between 12 minutes and 18 days until the babies arrive, it seemed like a good time to settle on some names. Of course, these are always subject to change, and I have had a LOT of people tell me that they changed their minds about baby names when they finally saw the little nuggets. So, take them with the requisite grain of salt.

First things first, I love the idea of family names (with an obvious nod to pretend family names in my case). Maybe it is because of my own checkered family past, or maybe it is because of my sense of traditionalism...but for whatever reason, I love the idea of naming people after various family members. Smoking Hot Roommate has a name that is at least quasi-traceable to someone who was born in 1848...that, to me, is super cool.

With that in mind, we set about to come up with four names (two first and two middle) for our baby girls. Immediately, you will likely note that both The Boy and I have sisters with whom we share enormously tight bonds. As such, both Twin Sister and Munchkin were the first names that automatically came to mind (well...their actual names).

Smoking Hot Roommate is the other obvious candidate, and was my next name choice. The fourth name is actually her mother's maiden name, which is a super cool name and one I like very much, especially as a middle name. So, there were our four choices.

First problem, I don't want to give one of them Munchkin's first name. She will still likely live at home part-time until the babies are eight or nine years old...and it just gets too complicated having two people in the household with the same name. So, that has to be a middle name.

Next issue is that Big Sis is having a baby in a month, and should that baby be a girl, she would very likely want to use her sister's name, and possibly her mother's maiden name as well (we had all talked about this a bit before). Obviously, I would defer to her if she wanted to use them, and would pick others to clear up the confusion. Yesterday, I finally got her to confide to me that, should she have a girl, she will almost certainly name it after her sister, and that her mother's maiden name will be the baby's middle name regardless.

Therefore...with all of this taken into account and everything worked out to my satisfaction...we have settled on:

TwinSister Munchkin, and BigSis SmokingHotRoommate.

LKM and MAM