Thanks for all the awesome suggestions (and good advice) guys!
What's Violet's middle name?
Renee. I'm not a fan, but DH got to pick the middle name and Renee is MY middle name. He's always liked it so there ya go.
I was told by my high risk pregnancy doc that my boys twins were not identical since they had their own sacs... As they were getting older, around 2 yrs... it became clearer and clearer that they just looked too alike that we were questioning if this was true. We had them DNA tested and sure enough they were identical 99.99987%!
Wow, crazy that it took 2 years to find out! The doctor we saw today explained to us how the different types of identical twins happen -- 2 sacs/1 placenta, 2 sacs/2 placentas, 1 sac/1 placenta. It's all depends on how many days after fertilization that the egg splits. If it splits 3-5 days after, it's x-type of identical twin, 5-8 days after it's this other type... if the egg splits after 13 days, they're conjoined twins.
I was taking fertility medicine to get pregnant, so the odds are HIGHLY in my favor that I released 2 eggs (fraternal twins), but you never know until they get here, I guess.
I'm going to offer this suggestion:
Do not repeat what my old neighbor did.
Luke and Leah
LOL!!! DH promised to give up naming rights on the babies if I agreed to dress them as Luke & Leia from Star Wars for their first Halloween (if they were b/g). He's a huge Star Wars fan... in fact, he talked me into dressing DD as Leia for her first Halloween.
Eleanor and Adeline, I'm liking it...but you know they will be nick-named Ellie and Addie...
I think Adeline (and Adelaide) is such a pretty name but one of my cousins has a little girl named Adelie, who goes by Addie. So that's out.
When they were growing up, every year for their annual checkup, the insurance company rejected one of the insurance claims because they have the same first intial, last name and birthdate and asssumed the two checkup claims were an error. Every year, we had to call and have the second claim resubmitted. The system seems to work a bit better now fortunately!
Oh good grief -- I never thought of that!! We had SOOO many problems with DD's birth because she was born on December 31st and for some reason, DH's insurance company found it unfathomable that a child could be born on the last day of the year... and made her coverage effective for Jan. 1. So we were getting all kinds of outrageous bills from the hospital for her delivery.
I do agree not to use names that are the exact same initials. We found that in college applications even the same first initial could be a bit of a problem. That and the college email addresses...first initial, last name. Especially if they decide to go to the same school. A long way out...I know. Just another perspective.
Sorry I wrote so much. My "boys" are one of my favorite subjects...
Ooh, I never thought of that either! My gosh, SO many things to think about!
So after a festive night (my mom's birthday -- I made her a "gender cake" for her to cut into and find out what her grandkids were going to be), I finally have a minute to sit down and obsess over names again.
I found a list we put together a while back after looking through this cool name book I picked up from the library. And I totally forgot how much we liked Cecilia. DH is quite fond of it as well, so it's a really good contender. He thinks CiCi is a "totally adorable" nickname for her.
Even after we get that straightened out we still have to think of a middle name that starts with "R". So much to think about!!
You can always reinforce the full name when someone calls them by a shortened version of their name. I grew up with an Anthony who was called that, not Tony. Cora is nice too. My twin cousins both have S names, and when we were growing up, my dbro would call them both by the one name because he couldn't tell them apart (they do NOT look alike)!
