Entry 67: 8.9.80 "Names"

I guess it might be a bit early to be thinking about names, seeing as they aren't even due until March next year and it's still too early to really tell anyone about the pregnancy, but neither of us can help it-we started talking about names. My family, mercifully, has a tendency to have easy names. Michael Conrad Henderson isn't too bad, Nora's name isn't bad either-Nora Lily Henderson (nee Ehst). But trying to figure out what to name your kid-considering it's the name that they're going to have their entire life… It's a bit of pressure.

I guess I'm lucky I'm a Michael, up until a few days before I was born my parents had thought about naming me Hershel. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there are plenty of guys named Hershel who are awesome, but I greatly prefer Michael. The one thing we have decided is that we aren't going to do one of those dumb cutesy twin names where they both start with the same letter or rhyme or something like that. Right now I'm thinking maybe Dean or James for a boy, and Betty or Violet for a girl. Nora feels like it's going to be two girls (according to her intuition), but if it is a boy she's thinking of Vernon or Norman. For girls she wants Emma or Anne.

In either case we still have over a month before we're planning on telling anyone.