Name This Kid!

Picking out paint for our house was so much fun! Not just because I was excited about painting and getting the place looking nice, but because most of these paints have such unique names! How fun would it be to name paint?! Here are some of my favorite paint names from our recent paint shopping trip...

Canyon Echo

Pink Ballet Slipper

Pineapple Upside Down Cake

Sandy Feet

Crisp Ginger Ale

New Grass Green

Pool Party

Essence of Lilac

Gentle Fawn

Mid Day Mocha

None of those paints, however, happen to be on my freshly painted walls. Just as choosing a name for our new baby, choosing a couple paint colors to complete our living room, dining room, and kitchen was a struggle. After over an hour of looking at paint samples, we finally decided on Cork, Chianti, and Gobi Desert (a yellow, a red, and a tan), which names aren't nearly as cute or as fun as any of my favorite paint names!

Thinking of naming paint and comparing the picking process of the paint colors to picking baby names, I thought I'd do a post asking for some help! We have not been able to come up with a name for this baby. Even though Maida has decided that if it's a girl, we'll name her "Tuna-Luna-Luna" and if it's a boy, we'll name him "Velociraptor," I'm not convinced those are the best choices for us. So, I thought I'd pull some suggestions from our blog readers. Most of you may not care or even know how to comment, but it would be really fun if you would (you can comment anonymously if that makes you feel more comfortable - click on "post a comment" below this post to comment). I would love to get hundreds and hundreds of name suggestions (which is funny noticing how the most comments I've ever gotten on one blog post is four or five!), so feel free to leave as many as you can think of.

Here some things you should know before you help us name our child:

1. We like different names.

2. We would like to find a name with a "K" in the name somewhere (but that's not super important).

3. We're looking for a middle name that starts with an "R".

4. We do not know if it's a boy or a girl.

Other interesting things about Maida and Skogen's names that may help you find our perfect name:

1. Maida's name was a complete accident. We really weren't prepared for a girl, so we pulled her name out at the last minute (after I decided that I didn't like Kensington - our girl name that we had picked out just in case she was a girl). Her name means "young girl".

2. We had Skogen's name picked out for Maida if she was a boy. He is named after a famous skier and he is born on this famous skier's birthday. "Skogen" means "forest" in Swedish.

3. Maida's middle name (Raine) is the last half of my middle name and Skogen's middle name (Roux) is the last half of Erik's middle name (just spelled differently).

4. If Skogen happened to be a girl, we had McKinley Ruth picked out.

Okay, name away! Someone please, name this kid!