Of names and birthdays...

Well, I know many were surprised by our choice of name for our girl, probably mainly because it is not one we mentioned much. But, I just thought I would give you all the 411 on the beautiful name Kindle Catherine. If you have read any of the previous blogs about names here, you should be aware that I have 2 major requirements for our children's names. 1-Unique (as in can't have been on the SSA top 1000 name in the past 100 years), and 2- has to be meaningful. All of our children have one "unique" name and one "normal" name, and all the "normal" names have been family names (OK-let's be honest, our first 3 kid's normal names are all from their parents-Solace REBEKAH, STEVEN Enderton, & Armour WESLEY...).

So, how did we get to Kindle Catherine?! I am sure you wonder what happened to the other names. Up until recently my top choice was Tamsin (unique and meaningful as it is a female form of Thomas and she would have been named after Wesley's youngest brother). Wesley's top choice as been Rosette, Solace's was Robette (meaning a small robe), Ender's was purplepotomus, and Armour, well, I think Armour would likely have gone with "Jorj".

While I was pregnant and we were trying to determine the name we talked a lot about how she seemed to be a really fiery personality. She was so active and just seemed fiery, so we started to look up word related to fire. The name Kimball was already on our short list, and we thought about the name Kindle, meaning to set fire to or ignite. We thought it was perfect. It quickly moved up our list as a name we liked. Add to that the fact that we had decided months ago, well before Cathy's death, that we were going to give our daughter the middle name of Catherine after Cathy. Now obviously there is a great alliteration with Kindle Catherine, so when it came down to it, that is what we liked the best and went with.

As far as her birthday, I have been accused of stacking the decks to that Solace (and Heidi of course) would win the blog birthday pool. I just want to say that I did not choose the day. When I was at the doctor's office a few weeks back he told me he would induce me a couple weeks early based on the baby's size and the fact that I am moving May 31st. However, he said some of his partners would not induce that early, so we had to make sure to schedule it the day he was on call. That just happened to be the 13th. So that's when it was scheduled. Granted I was pretty psyched to have a girl with a 13 birthday just like me-I won't forget her birthday anytime soon!

We love our new little Kindle and the more I get used to her name, the more I like it!