Names I Call Dibs On

What with you all popping out babies and such, I feel that we need to establish something. I'm calling dibs on my baby names now, and you cannot use them until every single one of my eggs has dried up. Which I guess is kind of a bummer since your eggs will most likely be all shriveled and gone by then too.

1. Lucy. There will be no Charlie or Patty to go with her, so those names are all yours. I may call her LuLu, so if you had thoughts about any variation on that, I'm sorry, I call dibs, and I believe that is legally binding. Kind of like Tap Tap Place Back.

2. Luke. Although, if there is a Lucy already, I will forgo Luke. We're not doing that whole cutesy they-all-start-with-the-same-letter thing. Because that's just asking for it. And I don't want 17 kids.

3. Matthew. I don't know if you've picked up on this yet, but I kind of have this thing for Bible names. At least for boys. Hepsibah and Hagar are all yours. I like the idea of giving my kids names that have a story with them. BigSis is the opposite, I know. She believes that her kids should have names that are all their own, for them to put their own mark on. And they have. Their names are now branded with cuteness. But I think it would be cool to tell my kids about their namesake, and how they should be like them because they were good and stuff.

4. Noah. See above.

5. Joshua. See above above.

6. Olivia. So I can call her Liv. 'Cause that's cute.

7. Vivian. It's old fashioned but I like it, probably partly because it's attached to a living loved one. But for that reason I don't know if I'll use it. I might have to have a rule about having hundreds of years between the two people involved in the naming-after process.

8. Eva. Because it's pretty. And if I get tired of calling her Eva I'll call her Evie. Or Ev. or E.

9. Esther.

10. Isaac. But in the Bible kind of way, not the creepy naming-her-after-my-first-boyfriend kind of way. 'Cause that would be wierd.

11. Hazel.

12. Lola. Her name was Lola. She was a showgirl. With yellow feathers in her hair...


Now that we have my dibs established, feel free to use the following, but be aware I will make fun of you:
1. Brooklyn. Um, if you're going to choose a city, why not Seattle?
2. Edward, Bella, Jasper, Alice, Jacob (okay, not Jacob, that's a good standard name), Emmett, or Rosalie. Do I need to explain? Seriously? Little Rosalie: "Mommy, how'd you pick my name?" You: "Well, sweetie, you see there were these vampires...." I excuse those of you with the name Bella in your child's name previously, because it was already popular and who knew, right? But if you have a little Emmett any time soon, it's on.

Feel free to name your baby after me. I *am* quite the role model, after all.

Also, for serious, I recommend those of you still on the baby name hunt check out the social security database. Several of my names I picked were on there, but I don't see myself having children for a wee bit here, since I lack some of the resources to make that happen, so I don't care. I will use them when they are not trendy. Just be aware that there is a way to check and see if you are being trendy. And then you can decide if you care that your daughter will be Bella D. for her entire school career or not. You can also search by the state you live in. I enjoyed looking at Utah's, and seeing that some of the trends haven't changed much in the last five or ten years there. Although there are less names ending in "lyn" for girls, and I don't think that Hunter, Packer, and other 'er's are so high up.