This is a picture of Lori and her brother when they were little. Weren't they precious!!I am not sure how choosing a name works with other couples but this is how it went with us. I went through baby name books. I choose names I liked and wrote them down. Blake went through the list and crossed out about 99.9% of them. Okay so maybe I am exaggerating just a little bit...he only crossed out 99% of them.
Initially I wanted to name him after my Daddy whose name was Jack. I thought very seriously about Jackson...until I realized that at my little school I run (where we have about 30 students total) there are 2 Jacks and 3 Jacksons. Plus if he went by Jack or even if we made his middle name Jack he would be Jack Wright. These are things you have to think about as a future parent. You don't want to set your child up for any more challenges than he is already going to have! For instance you don't want to make his initials be A. S. S. or P. M. S. or something like that.
I wanted to talk about it from almost the beginning, the name. Not Blake. "It's too soon to think about that," he said. Poor Lori. She kept asking and asking. I finally got Blake to agree that we would choose the name on the way to Steamboat. We ended up choosing his first name but were still choosing between 4 different middle names. It was quite a process!!
In the end we choose Emory Reese Wright. It has a nice ring to it...don't you think? If not, don't bother to tell us. It won't make any difference. It's pretty much a done deal!
