Blog Question Answered!

The other day a question was left on my blog and I thought I would go ahead and answer it!

livelaughlovelots7 asked "Just out of curiosity, why do you sometimes refer to Claire as Lola? Was that suppose to be her name? Also while I'm asking, how did you choose the girls names? Can you do a post about that and also what were your other choices for all the girls? "

Great questions! I am sure you aren't the only one who wondered!

So first, why we call Claire, Lola...well, I have no idea really why we just started calling her Lola. One day she started saying "lola lola lola lola" over and over again and so I just started saying it back to her and it became her little nick-name. Now we call her Lola Claire, or Lola Mae (I saw an Etsy sop named Lola Mae and I thought it was such a cute name!) or sometimes just Lola. She actually will turn her head and respond to Lola just as much as Claire. It was never suppose to be her name or anything, I would have never named her Lola actually, I never even considered it. I just seem to like it now.

And how we chose the girls names was pretty simple. Nothing like the trouble we went through while trying to pick Little Miss E's name. When I was young I thought about names a million times and what I would name my children one day and none of them made it on any of my children's birth certificates. Not until I was pregnant did I really think I wanted to use some names in our families. And then when I found out we were being blessed with triplets, I never expected them to all be the same sex so we didn't bother coming up with three girl names and three boy names, but it was still fun to think about. I wrote this post on the names we had chosen in August of 2010. And then we found out we were having two girls and a boy and so we named them in this post. Little did we know, that wasn't the truth and instead we were having three little girls who would be named in this post.

I knew I didn't want something like Madison, Madelynn and Morgan or Jessica, Jenna and Jamie...NO WAY!

I always loved the name Madelynn. And I told Tim that it was my number one choice for a daughter. Of course I went over and over in my head about the spelling though. I liked the two n's at the end but I almost put an e at the end to make Madelynne, but I thought the name was too long then. Christine is my sister's name and I thought it sounded beautiful with Madelynn. I liked how Madelynn is so popular now and yet it's still very old.

With Claire, it's kinds a funny story. Tim and I love the movie Wedding Crashers (we could literally watch it over and over!) and Rachel McAdams is my favorite actress who plays one of the main characters. Her name was Claire in the movie and it started there. We then watched another movie she was in and her name was Claire also, so then I thought it was a sign. And we love the TV show, Modern Family and the mom's name is Claire. I really loved the old nature of Claire, it's becoming more modern and yet it's still old. So, I was set on Claire and Tim said he wasn't a fan of it. I won't say what he really said, but it wasn't nice. After a few weeks, he said he loved it and wanted a little Claire-bear! So, I though Elizabeth sound great with Claire, and it's my MIL and my SIL's middle name too.

Then with Natalee, I always loved the name Natalee and Tim loved it too. I just said it one day and boom, he said that's it. We never looked back. He hated that I wanted to put two ee's on the end, but in the end I got what I wanted...partially because I filled out all the hospital paper work. Oh well. I like the uniqueness of it and Natalee is also an older name. 

So I thought all the names really sounded good together and yet weren't all matchy. I don't think we ever thought of any other names for the triplets. IF they had been boys, I am pretty sure they would have been Jackson Timothy, Nathan Samuel and Benjamin Robert. Tim doesn't like Ben, but I really do. I love Jackson Timothy, we would have called him JT. Ya never know, it may get used one day...shhh, don't tell Tim I said that.  It would be our number one choice for a boy at anytime.  Nathan was after Tim's best friend, the girl's god-father and Samuel would have been after Tim's step-grandfather that died in a motorcycle accident the year before we were married. Robert is after my dad and Tim's grandfather, and Benjamin just came out of no where. I like more solid/earthy/manly names for boys. Nothing made up or different. I have other issues with boy names but I won't go into it. Everyone has their things.

With Emily, I really thought she would be named Emily, Leah or Caroline. Savannah was close too. I still love Leah and Caroline. I went with Emily because my mom's grandmother was an Emily, she was a well-known nurse in Paris and my mom and I always loved the name Emily. And June is after my mom, which she absolutely loves that someone used her name because she doesn't like her name all that much. She cried when we told her Emily's full name. 

Names are so fun! Makes me happy that all 4 girls have middles names of women in our family.

If anyone else has questions, feel free to ask! I love answering them and I am sure people have questions when it comes to multiples!!