what's in a name

Picking names is hard.

Especially with a last name like "Teitelbaum". It always has to be spelled, so the first name should be something easy and relatively common. It also has to avoid any nasty teasing with "Tight Bum". "Ima" is right out.

If we were having a boy, it would probably be "Seth Robert". Short and easy first name. Named after Dad for the middle name.

Girls are HARDER. I think girls should have nicknameable names because they may not keep this last name after marriage. So you never know what future name they may have. And nearly anything can be made into a girl's name.

To narrow it down, we thought we'd try to focus on "CJ" for initials because sean's middle name starts with C, and mine with J.

Cadence--came from letters in Camden and the verbage of the Army.
J...that's been a tough one. At first, I was thinking Joy-Louise to play off my middle name and Dad's middle name. But Sean doesn't like Joy so much.

Then we found out he has a great grandma Lillian, which is pretty. So throw in the J instead and get Jillian.

Cadence Jillian?

But Cadence is not all that common. I doubt we could find pencils prestamped with "Cadence" on them. My test for if a name is easy enough is if it is found on novelty items.

So if we go away from CJ, then what?

Lillian Grace?

Megan Roberta?

Amelia Jane?

I'm so undecided.