At one point, my girls (whose names start with A and R) became offended that they don't have a theme (my boys are named for the evangelists). Out of the corner of my eye, I saw my husband enter the room so I said, "But we do! We're trying to spell out 'ARCTIC CIRCLE!'"
Poor guy still hasn't recovered...But the next two girls' name really do start with C and T!
In my brother's family, they all have the same initials. I never asked why, but he and his wife have the same initials, so I guess they just kept it up with the kids. I think it's cool, but it would really mess up my labeling system!
I tried to convince Angel that she needed to pick a theme for baby names. I recommended "Early Popes." You know: Peter, Linus, Clement, Cletus, Sixtus... Kinda rough if you have all girls, but it's the theme that's important!
I was reading through Butler's Lives of the Saints and came across a bunch of saints who knew each other: St, Egbert, St. Swithbert, St. Wigbert, and St. Cuthbert. I had to read it aloud to my kids: So Wigbert said to Swithbert and Cuthbert, "Come, let us go find Egbert..." We were rolling on the floor! Great moments in Catholic Geekdom. There's a theme for you!
Anyone else have a good idea for a theme? It doesn't have to be one you would actually do.
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When DOB worked in finance, I pointed out we could name our sons after mutual fund companies: Frank Russell, Edward Jones, etc.
And I have decided, too late, that Apollo and Artemis (or Diana) would have been cool twin names. Except they don't fit our retro-Puritan vibe at all.
I've got to share my favorite baby name widget. I could play with this thing for hours! Baby Name Wizard Voyager
We just have a 'recent pope' theme going here with John Paul and Benedict. :) Between my 4 sisters and me we have a nice general Bible theme: Mary (Jane), Joseph, Elizabeth, Anne, Simon, Mark, Luke and John. I have always joked about naming a boy Sixtus. We have friends with an Augustus, Xavier and Emmanuel (not in one family). I really stuck my foot in my mouth when Emmanuel was born and asked "what will you call him"...the answer "Emmanuel". oops!
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