Refiner's Fire

It is 12:30 and guess what I have spent the last not only 2 hours, but countless days before, doing? Going through the massive baby name book. Yes, I read every single boy name in the blasted book (minus the A section) and guess what? It didn't help me one single bit. We still liked our favorite two. We could have easily gone through the top 100 boy names of the last few years and found both (which I did). I just had to know. I had to read every. single. name.

Here is my conclusion:

Boys just aren't as fun to name. Sorry son. I had no giggly emotions of excitement come over me as we have been deciding. Anxiety is the emotion that I most correlate with choosing boy names. They're not frilly or pretty (thank goodness), but with that also comes a certain plainness that I just can't feel too excited about. Since Hubster nixed my favorite name long ago (Jackson) it has been a battle ever since.

Now, dear friends, I will give you our top five and you let me know what you think about them. I will reveal our decision afterwards....after I have thought long and hard about it for a few days, trying to get giddy about it. Once we decide it probably will not change once he's here, but I guess you never know.

Here they are (in no particular order):

1. Joshua

2.Gabriel

3. Nick

4. Jared

5. Zachary

Oh wait! I can't forget LeRoy. That's what we've been calling him in the meantime since it's so.....beautiful? Gorgeous? Lovely? It's basically the ugliest one that we could laugh at temporarily. If your name is LeRoy, then just take those question marks away from "beautiful", "lovely", and "gorgeous" and replace them with exclamation points. :)

6. LeRoy

Let me know! :)