What's in a Name?

Link-ups were made for days like today! Days when you have so much to do that you don't even have time to blog, days when you've spent the previous night at the hospital because both you and your daughter are sick, days when you have so much to do before the GRAMMYs that you can't even think straight! So today I'm joining Amanda for her "What's in a Name?" link-up to share how my kids got their names. I always envisioned my kids having different names, names that weren't very common. Instead? They both have some of the most common names around!

Ryan Anthony - I have always loved the name Ryan and I always just knew that the man I married would be named Ryan. Turns out my intuition was wrong, should've been my first clue, but his middle name was Ryan and when we were choosing boy names, we both agreed very early on that we wanted that name for our son. The middle name didn't come as easily... we tossed ideas around back and forth but we couldn't agree. I liked Christopher (my ex's first name) and Andrew and he liked Anthony. After I'd had a particularly bad day of feeling horrible during pregnancy, he relented and agreed that we could go with Andrew as the middle name. Perfect, or so I thought. A couple of hours after Ryan was born, the phone rang in our room and it was the hospital office calling because they were filling out Ryan's birth certificate and they wanted to be sure they were spelling everything correctly. Chris was the one who answered the phone and when they asked what Ryan's middle name was, Chris paused and then said "Anthony." To this day I'm still not crazy about the name Anthony but it works.

Had he been a girl, I wanted to name him Katelyn.

Emily Ann - After bouncing around different names I finally fell in love with the name Emily. Chris didn't really care for the name much and he decided on the name Jillian. We were both stuck on the names that we liked and couldn't come to an agreement until after Emily was born. When she was a couple of hours old, the nurse said to us "this girl needs a name!" and Chris looked at me, then looked back at the nurse and said "Emily." Her middle name? That didn't come easily either. I was torn between Ann (my mom's middle name) and Laura (from the baby girl in Bryan White's song "Rebecca Lynn") and couldn't make up my mind between the two. We left the hospital without a middle name and when Emily was a couple of months old I decided that the poor thing finally needed a middle name so I chose "Ann" and sent in the paperwork to the state to have her name officially changed.

Had she been a boy, I wanted to name her Tyler.
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