Tagged!

One of the other lovely Target pharmacist mommies, Liz, tagged me this week in her blog. The question - how did you come up with your kids' names? So, here we go!

Brett Matthew - As soon as we found out that I was pregnant, we started talking about boy names and girl names. We didn't agree on much, but we did agree that we weren't telling ANYONE the name until after the baby was born. Eventually, we had a girl name - Gabriella, and we would call her Gabby. There was another girl name too, but now, for the life of me, I can't remember what it was. Then came boy names. I would come up with a few, which Todd would veto. He came up with a few, which I would veto. Then, one night, sitting in McAllister's Deli, we started being goofy and suggesting names that we knew the other would veto. I won't mention them in case you named your child one of those names! Anyway, Todd jokingly said "Brett, you know, after Brett Favre." (Brett Favre was the quarterback for the Green Bay Packers at the time... the Packers being Todd's favorite pro football team.) I actually stopped for a second and said, "Brett... I don't hate it." It ended up being the only boy name we really agreed on. I knew that I wanted to use Matthew in the name somewhere - my grandfather was Mathew Leonard, my dad is Mathew Stenton, and I would've been Mathew Harrison. We eventually agreed on Brett Matthew, but then came the spelling - one "t" like my dad, or the traditional "tt." Finally, we decided that Brett has two t's, so Matthew would have 2 t's as well, and that's how we came up with Brett Matthew!

Katharine Renee - So, like I said above, we had a couple girl names in mind when I was pregnant with Brett. Suddenly, with the 2nd pregnancy, I wasn't feeling those names at all. I remember watching the season finale of American Idol in the hospital the night after I delivered Brett, and watching Katharine McPhee, thinking to myself, hmm... I kind of like it. KathArine was a little bit different than the more traditional KathErine, but it wasn't out there. Of course, Katharine is too long for a little girl, so we had to have a nickname. Common sense for a little girl would be Katie, and, trust me, almost everywhere we go, someone tries to call her Katie instead of Kate. Why did we go with Kate? I had this friend in high school (everyone had a friend like this), and her name was Katie. Chances were, if I was getting in trouble for something, Katie was involved. Isn't it funny how one person can change a name for you? Anyway, Renee was really a no-brainer. My middle name is/was Renee, my mom's middle name is Renee, and Todd's sister's first name is Renee. So, Katharine Renee it is! Oh, and our boy name... yeah, we never had one! Thank God for ultrasound techs being right!!

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