A wedding and a name

6.21.14

     Alex teaches a workout called Crossfit at one of our local gyms. He started doing the workouts while he was still in Afghanistan and it carried over to the states. He absolutely loves it and from every person I've ever met that he works out with, they love it when he coaches, too.
     At his current gym, one of the other teachers was getting married and she didn't know us when the invitations were sent out. So instead she just asked Alex if we'd like to come and gave him their website that had all the information on it. I love going to weddings anyways, so of course we ended up going on a last minute date night on a Saturday night.
     We sat at dinner with one of Alex's favorite coaches and his wife, who was also about 6 months pregnant. She shared with me that they had already had three kids, and that this would be their last one.
      Alex and I had been name shopping since we found out the "potential" gender earlier on in this pregnancy, but we could never really come up with anything that both of us loved. Kaitlyn's name was picked out long before we were even serious about trying to get pregnant, so to try to come up with a name as cool as K-So was a huge task to face.
      I asked the wife about her older kids and their names, and that's when she said one that I looked up and said to Alex, "Oooh do you like that?" I got a nod out of him, which is essentially a jumping up and down "YES" in Alex body language. "Hmm..." I said, trying not to give away too much that we were probably going to steal that name from her.
      "Yeah, you have to flirt with it a little bit. Test it out. See if you really like it," she said as she continued her meal. That just made me laugh.
      In the end, we decided that we really liked the name but weren't 100% sure we were ready to commit. So we put it on the back burner for a little while, but randomly over the next week or so we would say the name and put a different middle name with it to see if we liked it.