many of you know this!
we had lists miles long of potential baby names. we were constantly adding and eliminating. we knew we wanted something different, something special.
finally in january we narrowed the list down to a top five first name, and top three middle name list, and eventually, sometime in the last few weeks of my pregnancy, we decided on Finn Wilde.
funny enough, in the first few months billy and i started dating, i can vividly remember having a pint of guinness together at slainte in downtown wilmington and talking about baby names. finn was one of the two boy names we decided on back then. we should have just stuck with our gut from the beginning!
we liked the name finn because it is an irish name, and it is a reference to the irish folk hero fionn macCumhail, pronounced "finn mcCool". there are lots of fun folk stories about him, so if you're feeling in the irish spirit with st. patrick's day approaching, do a little irish reading! those stories are the stories billy would read to finn while we were waiting for him to arrive... remember this pic?
we chose wilde as a middle name because it references oscar wilde, one of my favorite authors, and gene wilder, our favorite actor. billy and i visited oscar wilde's grave on our honeymoon in paris:
yes, we know it's weird that we went to graveyards on our honeymoon, but if you're ever in paris you'd be crazy not to. the graveyards are like stone gardens. i can't wait to go back.
there were lots and lots of family names and names of people that are special to us personally that we could have used in naming our baby but didn't. in the end, we chose finn wilde because it was a name unique to us and unique for finn. we love it, and we hope it's a name he can be proud of one day.
in closing, here's a little picture of the little guy just cuz...
sometimes he just likes hanging out in his crib listening to pink floyd and watching his mobile...
aunt mandy is very proud.
6 comments:
I'm so glad you picked the name you did. :) And he is so cute!
and so is aunt lindsay. ;)
Yay! Let the cute baby pictures begin!!
my precious little snuggle bug. Grandma loves you little man.
My precious little nugget. Grandma loves you and misses you.
Such a great name! It already fits him so perfectly.
Love the Irish influence in the names. I hope you call him Finn McCool all the time! And I figured Wilde was a family name like Wilder is in ours, what with the Irish backgrounds and all. (Your mom thought Wilder was a really cute name when I told her my favorites at the Stover's Christmas party, so I bet she was excited about Wilde for his middle name!) When he reads Dorian Grey in high school he can appreciate the author even more!
Love the pic, too- he looks like such a little cuddle-bug! Ok, that was a lot of exclamation points...I'm just so excited for you guys and I hope you are loving every second of his tiny babyness. :)
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