Names

1. First off, I'd like the thank "anonymous" who made us this great new banner. We love it, don't all of you?

2. Blogger had some weird glitch that deleted all the earlier comments. I don't know what's up with that, or if they're coming back. Weird.

Anyway, before it disappeared, we had someone ask us how we decided on the babies' names.

Molly is the only first name that is a family name. We knew that that was a name we were going to use. Eleanor is also a family name, but we decided that it would be a middle name because we just weren't in love with it quite enough to give it as a first name.
All the other names are just ones we liked and picked out. What got hard was putting what names, where!
We already had Max and Molly's names set before we noticed that they both also had E middle names. We didn't want to do more "M" first names because we didn't want to be too "matchy-matchy". So, we decided to do E middle names for all the kids. So, we decided to use Kristin as a first name, but then switched the middle name with Molly's. (Is this confusing yet?) We were absolutely stumped on the last name. We had names we liked, but had a different "vibe" then the rest. While we didn't want the names to match, we did want them to sound like they belonged together. Finally, we hit on Layla and fell in love with it. Then we had even more difficulty deciding on another E middle name that we liked. We FINALLY decided on Ellery. And that was that!