How did we pick the names, you might ask? With great trial and tribulation! Wow, what a responsibility for a soon-to-be-parent, picking the name your child will live with for the rest of their lives. When we had the names – we both knew they were right. It was a challenge getting there, though!
Over the years, I built a list of potential names. Mike thought from the startthat we were having girls, so we started with the girl names. I gave him my list. Over three years in the making, that list – and there was only one name he liked. One name. We had four girl names to pick – and he only liked one! The quest was on to find more names. I made more lists. I tried giving him some of my favorites from the original list to him again, but he kept rejecting them. He suggested names, but nothing sounded right to me.
Discussions continued, suggestions continued – and eventually, we switched from the original name Mike picked off the first list to a similar but different name from the first list, KAYLA. Then Mike suggested a name that we agreed on for a few weeks. We eventually changed that one to a new one as well, MEGAN.
Middle names were MUCH easier to pick. We wanted to name the girls after our mothers, so we took both of their middle names – MADELYN and RAE, and gave them to our girls.
We had refused to assign them names to the girls before they were born, so they were “Baby A” and “Baby B” until the moment they were born. We had agreed on Kayla’s name first, so we decided the first baby born would be Kayla. It turns out that it was Baby A. During surgery when the girls were born, I remember whispering, “That’s Kayla” and “That’s Megan”, although I don’t know that anyone in particular was listening to me at the time, as it was quite hectic in the OR and Mike was following the babies across the room. It didn’t matter, we both knew who they were the moment they were born. Kayla Madelyn and Megan Rae -- and I can’t imagine them with any other names.
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