He has a Name!!!

Finally we have a name for our little guy! This was a VERY hard decision for us. When we were practically positive we were having a girl, we were ready with a name, but when we found out we were being blessed with a boy, we weren't prepared.

Damon wanted to name him Henry Chance. At first, after our ultrasound, I was on such a baby high that I thought it was great and agreed to it. Oops! After a few hours to think it over, and after my excitement level came back down, I realized that just wasn't the name for my little man. I should have known. I am not the most decisive person. I slept on the name Henry for about a week, and I liked it, but I never fell in love with it.

My whole life I have picked out baby names. I find it ironic that I always had trouble with picking girl names I loved, and no problem with boy names, but then when I got pregnant it switched and it became much harder to pick a boy name.

After looking through tons of baby name lists, I developed my own list of about thirty names. It took Damon all of about one minute to decimate my list!!! We were down to six. After sitting with those names for a few more days, we narrowed our six again.

We were down to Henry Nohl and call him "Nohl", or Caellum Chance and call him "Caellum" (pronounced K-lum). Damon didn't like Nohl. I was a little sad- that has been my boy baby name for quite a while (It is also where he got "Henry" when he came up with Henry Chance). But- I didn't like his first choice of Henry, so I couldn't argue with his dislike of Nohl. Really, I think we have ended up with the perfect name.

We decided on "Calum Chance McGough". Calum is pronounced the same as Caellum, but I like the simpler spelling. Calum means "dove" or "peacefulness". It is a Celtic name.

So, here I am, 23 weeks along, with my baby boy, Calum!