J and I haven’t put much effort into thinking of baby names just yet (why waste our time thinking the perfect name when we don’t know the gender yet? I’ll focus my energy when I know what kind of name we’re going to need!) but we throw out names on occasion as we think of them. So far we have some girl names we both agree don’t suck, but we haven’t gotten much yet in the way of boy names (he doesn’t like the ones I’ve thrown out so far, and he hasn’t come up with much on his own).
So J and I were walking back from some errands last week when he said to me, “I thought of a boy baby name”.
“Oh yeah? What is it?”
“Kelvin. With a K”.
At this point I stopped walking. “Like the temperature scale?”
“Yeah! Isn’t that great?”
“Um, yeah. The only way he’ll get made fun of any more on the playground is if we named him Copernicus”.
“Ooooh, that’s a good one too!”
“Or maybe Galileo”.
“Kelvin Galileo, that’s AWESOME!”
Oh, my husband . . . 
So I guess we’d better hope for a girl, because if we have a boy, it’s going to have one heck of a name to live up to, whatever it is!
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