golden slumbers

Back in April I blogged about names and all the silly requirements I felt like we needed to follow in picking out a name for this baby. Oliver was Quinn's pick and he's been insistent on it ever since we found out we were having a boy. We've liked the name Oliver for a while now (it was nearly Max's name), so we decided to go with it. We hadn't decided for sure until it came time to fill out the birth certificate, but we figured, if Quinn was so certain, then that must be his name. Plus it was hard not to name him that after the boys came to meet him in the hospital and Quinn walked in and said, "Awwww!! He's sooo small!! He's soooo cute!!! His name is Oliver!!"

And since the boy needed a song, we went with Golden for the middle name (awesome song here - a regular in my song rotation for the boys before bed). We'd heard it before as a name and always thought it was sweet. We considered it for a boy or a girl, but I felt like naming a girl Golden would be almost like naming her Glitter or Fancy or something unfortunate like that...

We go back and forth between referring to him as Oliver, Ollie, Ollie G and Golden. I always try to be careful about thinking through names and trying out all possible nicknames. Because you know kids are going to come up with something to call them other than their name. My sister had a friend that felt it was wrong for our brother to go through his life with the initials B.S., so he started calling him "Bird Seed". We shortened it after a while and just referred to him as "Bird". It stuck for years. Nicknames are important. For this reason I wish we had talked about our name list with some of Zach's seminary students so that they could have given us a heads up on possible nicknames. And then maybe we would have at least considered whether we wanted to give our son a name that so much resembled the name of a rather popular italian resturant. Oh well. He is a rather tasty little breadstick.

Hope you don't mind an overload of baby pictures and gushing about our new little nugget. Because he's rather wonderful and we're all a little in love with him.