Lockhart Babe 4.0: The Name Poll.

The pictures of the kids are completely irrelevant to this post.  I just like flaunting their weird personalities.  

I posted on Facebook the following status before deleting 2 seconds later...

We are pretty sure we have a name picked for the babe.  We have narrowed it down to two names Sebastian and Becket (the middle name is Roger no matter what)  Leave your fave in the comments just for fun.  I would post a poll, but I'm too lazy to get the computer. 

Then I realized that  I didn't want to fold anymore clothes so getting the computer and creating a poll would be the PERFECT way for me to procrastinate, because I needed something to keep me from being a responsible adult....ALL THE THINGS WILL GET PACKED...someday.

So I created an online poll.  Its just for fun.  The results will not sway our decision so go ahead choose what you like not what you think we will like.  :)  And I will be here refreshing the results every minute, so yeah, hurry up!  Thanks for enabling me!!!!

panel management

Boy or Girl?

Well I'm another year old.  Pretty sure I'm not another year wiser.

Yesterday was my birthday.  Nothing major happened.  Simon was the first kid up at 9:15!  No kids woke up in the middle of the night.  I was quite refreshed.  This morning was the standard wake up time, but no one woke up so I'm feeling pretty good.  Anyway, the kids went to school, my friend helped me sort, organize, and purge all of the kid's clothes.  The only bummer was that Chris had to work late, but it was fine.

Since we will be moving this fall, we have a baby on the way, and it is finally starting to warm up I felt like it was a good time to change out the kids' clothes. We made a tote that included all the clothes I have manged to snag on clearance for next season.  I also made a tote with the clothes for Lucky Lockhart #4 since we did find out what we are having.  More on that later.  Organized the winter gear, left over boy and girl clothes.  I have hoarder tendencies, but my friend Nicole helped me keep it to a minimum.  I feel so blessed though.  My kids have clothes for this summer and next fall between what has been given to me and the few good buys that I have gotten along the way.  God does provide.

So anyway, let's get to why you clicked on this link.  Boy or girl?

The day before my birthday Chris happened to be off and I had my ultra sound for baby number #4.  I LOVE watching the babes move and squirm on the computer screen.  This one was the least cooperative.  It took a while for them to get an image of the babe's profile.  But they got it.

Not that I can really tell on these things, but I think this looks a lot like Simon's profile sonogram.  In Amelia's sonogram you could CLEARLY see the girl's big ol' cheeks.  We didn't see any on Monday at the appointment.  We will know for sure late September I guess :).  

I was considering not finding out, but my curiosity got the best of me.  Not that I'm blaming Chris, but if he was eager for a surprise I probably could have held out.  My original instinct was I was having a boy.  With each of them I had a gut feeling and have been right.  This time I changed my stance because this pregnancy is just like Amelia's.  From the babe's heart rate to my crack like addiction to Diet Pepsi.  

I really don't care what we have, but since Simon shifted the balance a girl would be nice.  Plus Owen and Amelia had been saying the whole pregnancy thus far that they wanted a sister.  So part of me wanted a girl for them, but really I didn't care what the ultra sound would reveal.

So, we are really excited to announce that we are having a....

BOY! We are STOKED!  I'm telling you having #4 is just as exciting as #1.  Well for me at least!   If we are blessed with any future Lockharts I will stick with my gut feeling.  We are floating some names around.  You have any good boy names to share? Please do!

Here are a few out takes because I had a hard time choosing.

Photo bombed by Simon

Name Game

I know it's been a while.  Nearly two weeks since my last post.  I know my last few post have been anything but entertaining.  Sorry 'bout that.  Keeping things consistently inconsistent is the name of the game folks.  In short, the first trimester is kicking my butt.  So far I have been blessed with manageable pregnancies.   They all come with their own set of complaints, but manageable.  This one I have been exhausted and nauseated.  Thankfully, no vomiting, but still this crippling nausea that makes me want to do nothing more that lay on the couch and sleep it off.  Chris was on leave and bless him because that is what he let me do!

Anyway, let's talk about my favorite part about being pregnant: picking names.  Hands down.  I've heard other couples sometimes have a hard time agreeing, and though Chris and I don't agree on every suggestion we usually don't have a hard time.  Actually, we usually have several names we have agreed on and then have a hard time making a decision.  We are the most indecisive couple you will ever meet.  We are that degree of annoying.  Trust me.

I mentioned during a Quick Take that I wasn't sure if I wanted to find out the sex this time.  Choosing the name is one of the reasons why I would want to find out again.  It's not the sticking to one gender so much, but once we choose a name we use it.  I like that aspect of finding out the gender of the baby.  I don't think it would work if we switched back and forth.  We're still not sure about finding out the gender, but the name and picking the coming home outfit are the two reasons I would want to find out.

Many people like to keep the name a secret so other people don't ruin it for them.  I know not everyone is going to love the name that we choose, so I try not to let other people's opinions bother me.  So far I have never felt like we needed to scrap a name.  We love it, we go with it.

So, we don't really have a system of any kind.  A friend of mine gave me the book The Baby Name Wizard, Revised 3rd Edition: A Magical Method for Finding the Perfect Name for Your Baby and that is how we stumbled upon our boy names.  Within the book it gives you brother and sister names of a particular name.  I loved the name Amelia before we even had kids, but in the book that is how we found Owen and Simon.


Middle names we try to use a family name.

With Owen we had four other names we were considering. Ian, Sawyer, Aiden, and Liam.   We decided to use the names rather than "the baby" to see what would fit.  Chris kept using Owen so I asked him if that was the name he preferred.  It was and we went with it!  We knew we were going to use the middle name Clarence, after Chris's grandfather, before we had the first name picked out.

Owen Clarence: March 3, 2009

When discussing names for Amelia, we had managed to narrow down our list to two boy names and two girl names before we found out the gender.  Jude and Gabriel if she were a boy.  Amelia Rose and Fiona Olive is she were a girl.  Once we found out she was a girl we opted to do the same thing we did with Owen, use the names.  Chris told me that he just thought she was an Amelia so that is what we chose.  Rose is after my best friend Julie.  I just love the name Rose!  I almost wish I had kept it to use as a first name one day.

Amelia Rose: October 23, 2010

And then there was Simon.  We toyed with the idea of not finding out the gender, but I was only looking at girl names even though I was pretty sure I was having a boy.  So we found out the gender so I could force myself to look at boy names...sad I know.  But nothing was appealing.  We even thought about stick with names that began with a vowel, but nothing came of it so we scratched it.  We reached for the baby name book again where we found Simon and Pierce attached to either Owen's or Amelia's name..I can't remember.  Chris said that he felt like he made the final call on the last two kids that he wanted me to do it this go 'round.  He liked both names and that I should make the final call.  Seriously, I was not trilled with this.  Mainly because when I would go back a forth he would not give me a definitive "ok, that's the name".  I felt like I did that for him, but maybe not.  I was drawn to Simon.  I just loved it. We chose Paul as his middle name after my dad.

Simon Paul: October 26, 2012

Ahhh...can't you just smell that new born smell right through the computer screen!!!  The best.  Chris and I have been throwing some names.  Here is what we have so far....

Boys:  Everett, Oliver, Jude, Augustine, Benedict, Emmett,

Girls:  Ruth, Jocelyn, Gianna, Magdalene, Cecilia, Bernadette

Actually, there is more to this list, but I have completely blanked.  Pregnancy Brain? Maybe? But doubtful. Once we really narrow down our list we will probably do an online poll.  It never sways our decision, but I like to know what everyone else thinks.  For fun, ya know?  So, how did you choose your kids' names?  Do you have any suggestions to add to our list?  We wouldn't mind hearing them since we indecisive and non-committal ;)  For real.  Let us know!