Ok. The story on the name. About two weeks before we sold our house Lehr threw out the name 'Maddux' in an IM to me one morning. Greg Maddux is an MLB pitcher that we both respect and love (many many years with the Cubs before and after he was with the Braves), so why not use his name? Anyway, I mulled it over and really liked the originality and meaningfulness of the name. In my mind, the issue had been settled: the baby would be Bode or Maddux. Between the selling of our old house and buying of our new house, we got too busy to discuss names until a few weeks after settling in. When the subject came up again, we still agreed on Bode, but when I mentioned Maddux, Lehr seemed surprised. Not that he didn't like the name, but he never thought I'd go for it, so he wasn't really serious. We tossed a few other names back and forth, but they all seemed a distant second to 'Bode', which we both loved. It got to the point where we still didn't have a gender preference, but if we didn't get to use 'Bode', we realized we'd be disappointed because we didn't have a girl name we felt as strongly about either. Back and forth, back and forth.... We tossed Maddux around, but still didn't make our decision until midnight the night before I went in to be induced. Finally we agreed that it was the only name we both felt 'connected'. And so it is....
Sunday, July 08, 2007
What's In A Name?
Ok. The story on the name. About two weeks before we sold our house Lehr threw out the name 'Maddux' in an IM to me one morning. Greg Maddux is an MLB pitcher that we both respect and love (many many years with the Cubs before and after he was with the Braves), so why not use his name? Anyway, I mulled it over and really liked the originality and meaningfulness of the name. In my mind, the issue had been settled: the baby would be Bode or Maddux. Between the selling of our old house and buying of our new house, we got too busy to discuss names until a few weeks after settling in. When the subject came up again, we still agreed on Bode, but when I mentioned Maddux, Lehr seemed surprised. Not that he didn't like the name, but he never thought I'd go for it, so he wasn't really serious. We tossed a few other names back and forth, but they all seemed a distant second to 'Bode', which we both loved. It got to the point where we still didn't have a gender preference, but if we didn't get to use 'Bode', we realized we'd be disappointed because we didn't have a girl name we felt as strongly about either. Back and forth, back and forth.... We tossed Maddux around, but still didn't make our decision until midnight the night before I went in to be induced. Finally we agreed that it was the only name we both felt 'connected'. And so it is....
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You know Greg was a pitcher for the Braves before going to the cubs! Go braves .... hehehehe
OH and PS ... Bode is a name we have for a boy ... keeping in the 4 letter names. Probably wont use it but it was something we considered. And no we are not pregnant. Not even talking about it until next year after Pace is 2.
Haha, I was actually really excited that you named her Maddux, just because Greg was my favorite pitcher while he played for the Braves. She is far cuter than he is though. =)
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