Names.....

So, over the last few weeks Gareth and I have been discussing names. While we were at Riverdance a few weeks ago, I saw in the program that one of the performers was named Liam. We have always liked that name, and talked about using it during Alex's pregnancy and again when we were waiting for Callum. I mentioned to Gareth that I liked it. He said, "great". The next day, I looked it up and found that it meant desire and protection. It is also short for William. I did not know that. I like William, but we always thought that a nick name for William was Wil. (which it is) Anyway, I mentioned to Gareth that Liam is short for William, and knowing his grandfather's name was William, I waited for a response. A few days later he says to me, "I like Liam if we name him William and call him Liam".
We then consulted Alex. She was our biggest critic. If she didn't like it, it was off. She said, yeah that is ok. Over the last few weeks, it has really grown on us and although we have called him Nicholas for over 2 years, we have now decided to name him:
William Antoni. Nickname: Liam!!

We were going to wait to tell all, but we didn't want a repeat of the week after Alex's birth. You see, when Alex was born, we didn't know if we were having a boy or girl. If she was a girl, she was supposed to be Carly. We had phoned England to tell them that we had had a girl and left it at that. Later that night, as I was sitting there recouping after 5 DAYS of labor and almost 3 hours of pushing, Gareth says to me, you know, I don't really like Carly and I don't think that she looks like a Carly. I then responded in a very polite way (haha), " fine, name her whatever you want". That is how she is Alexandria. Well, later that week, we started getting cards from our family in England to "carly", and it was then that we realized that we had told everyone we had a girl, but in our sleep deprived state, we forgot to tell them that we changed her name after she was born:0) Makes for a good story.

So, long story short, you know if you are friends with us, we never do anything easily:0)

We will now have a Alex, Callum and Liam. We are thrilled and can't wait!!!!!