When we were about 10-11 weeks pregnant with Lexi, mommy came up with the name Lexi Ann. I absolutely fell in love with it. Mommy had a feeling Lexi was a girl, daddy didn't believe her, but mommy just knew. When it was confirmed at 21 weeks, there was no doubt that our little girl would be named Lexi Ann. We wanted a name that would sound professional and have the options of nicknames, so Alexis Ann was decided upon.
It was a good thing Lexi was a girl, otherwise we might still be debating names. Boy names were incredibly hard for mommy and daddy to agree to. So mommy started keeping a list, it ended up being pretty long, of all the names mommy liked for boys and girls. Mommy likes to be prepared, we always knew another baby was in the plans, so mommy kept the list for when that time came.
Kenady (Kena) Rose Lucas Ryan
MaKenna Renee Jacob Ryan
Taylor Lynn Samuel Paul
Dakota Rose James Paul
Those were a few of the names on my list. When we found out at 16 weeks we were having a boy, mommy started thinking of what works best with Lexi. She quickly decided that Lexi and Luke were perfect together. Now she just had to convince daddy. Daddy was not so easily convinced. Daddy actually refused to discuss names because of school stressors. Which I guess is fair. So mommy held onto her desire to have Lexi and Luke. She started making arguments in her head as to why the name is perfect for baby boy. And she waited, for when daddy would be ready to talk about names.
The time came to discuss names on our trip home from Myrtle Beach. Seriously, I had 20+ hours in the car to convince him that Lexi and Luke go perfect together. Well, that didn't work. Not only did he shoot down Luke, he shot down my whole list of 8-10 names. By the way, I deleted my list daddy for sure didn't like them, so the above 8 are the ones I remembered.
So I read though baby center and different baby blogs. After what seemed like hours of stating hundreds of names, we mutually agreed on 4 names. Yes, four. Out of the hundreds of names from various different lists and websites, we agreed on 4.
Tristran
Nicholas
Josiah
Jaxson
Then, mommy did something crazy. She decided to let daddy pick the final name. I guess that it was a fair decision since technically I decided Lexi's name and Ryan didn't have a say. Ryan quickly decided on Josiah. Once it was determined, it felt so right. It felt like baby brother was just waiting for us to realize what his name would be, once it was determined, everything seemed perfect. Except the matter of a middle name.
This started a new battle. Mommy wanted something that had meaning, Ann comes from mommy's mom and daddy's mom, so it was only fair that Josiah's middle name have a history to it. We threw out tons of names, but again, we were not agreeing.
Josiah Allan-Ryan's mothers maiden name.
Josiah Thomas-after my foster dad.
Josiah Lynn-don't get a big head Micah, Lynn is after my foster mom. :)
Josiah Paul-Ryan's middle name.
After a lot of debating, mommy decided to just start over and come up with a name we like even if it doesn't have a history to it. So we were throwing out names on night with Aunt Sandra and Somehow we got into a biblical name stand off. Josiah Luke, Mathew, Mark, Abram, Amos....mommy thought it would be funny to say Josiah Mosiah (from the Book of Mormon). Daddy thought that sounded amazing. He probably told 10 people that night that baby brothers name would be Josiah Mosiah.
Once mommy reasoned daddy out of that name, we started looking at names again. Grandma said what about Taylor? President Taylor was a prophet of the LDS church and is also related to the Matteson family. So far, we both like that name and it sounds right. So baby brother is going to be Josiah Taylor.
So you see, names are challenging things to mess with, especially when daddy doesn't agree with mommy. ;-)
I love you both so much and I can't wait to meet you Josiah!!
Love, mommy!
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