What's in a name?

We never knew what a stir we would cause among our family by keeping BabyW's name a surprise until he's born! I actually really stink at keeping secrets, so I must say, it's been kind of fun and we haven't slipped up at all. No one knows except me & Mike and it's been kinda nice. We certainly aren't doing it just to torment the rest of the family... although they may sometimes think so! :)














We have a few reasons:

1. At first, we weren't sure what we would pick, so we didn't want to announce a name only to change it and then change it back again.
   
2. Everyone may know someone with his name that would make them not like it, so there's no way we could satisfy everyone. You know, we all had that fat kid in our 2nd grade class who picked his nose and was a nerd. Well... mine might have been named Adam, and Mike's could have been Steve and my mom's could have been Timmy.... If we filtered out all of those, we might never come up with a name!
   
3. We wanted to pick the name that we both loved and we felt would be a good fit, without endless opinions. Most people are quick to give their opinion when they think they might be able to change your mind, but (at least we're hoping) once it's final, no one will tell us if they don't like it... it'll already be settled and they'll just grow to love it.
   
4. Surprises are fun... and there just aren't that many opportunities to have them!

Our decision to wait was definitely confirmed when we did tell one random lady at a garage sale who asked. The conversation went like this:

Lady: What are you going to name him?
Me: We're deciding between Brutus and Horace. (obviously these are not true options)
Lady: Oh, I definitely like Horace much better. Yeah, Horace is better.
Me: Well, we'll see...

(And as we left, we said to each other: "did we ask her opinion? we actually didn't really want her opinion... and frankly we were leaning toward the "brutus" option, not "horace" so now we just have someone telling us they aren't crazy about our choice, yeah, we're definitely glad we're keeping it a surprise.")