It almost seems like immediately after we tell people that we are having a baby girl they feel obligated to ask us if we have any names picked out. The funny thing is we’ve been bouncing baby names around for YEARS. I think it all started when Michelle had to do a project in high school that outlined what her life would be like in 10 years. (Strangely enough that year is this year) When she had created the project she had thought that we would have kids by this point in our life. (Something we have no regrets about waiting to do.) In the project she outlined that we would have one boy and one girl whom she had to name per the teacher’s outline. This started the dialogue between us.
Even before the discussion we both knew that if we had a boy we would want to name him after the father (in this case Anthony. Or some other derivative of the name but that’s a different story) For a girl (more appropo to the current situation) we had initially discussed Desiree Tamara. Throughout the years this name slowly changed.
However it wasn’t until we were sitting around watching our favorite, yet canceled, TV Show, Firefly and Michelle blurts out “I like the name Kaylee”. If you’ve never seen this AWESOME show or the movie Serenity, Kaylee is the common name used for Kaywinnit Lee Frye the ships mechanic and all around cheery person (plus the resident red-headed hottie).
I confirmed that I like the name as well but Michelle countered with “Well what would the middle name be?” At this point I realized she was considering the name for one of our future children. I told her that the actress who plays Kaylee is Jewel Staite and I think Kaylee Jewel is a pretty name. From that point on we knew that we would name our first girl, in this case Spraggle, Kaylee Jewel Sprague.
Like before, if you’ve never seen Firefly or Serenity 1) I pity you. 2) I have the DVDs come borrow them. 3) Let me give you some insight into the character Kaylee. On top of being very intelligent, Kaylee is very bubbly and easy going sometimes borderline annoyingly cheerful. All qualities that we can agree Michelle has as well. Take into consideration that Kaylee is a redhead and Michelle DESPERATELY wants a redheaded baby girl and you have the recipe for a perfect namesake. I defy you to watch the series and the movie and not see the similarities between Michelle and Kaylee.
With all that being said we do not want to jinx this pregnancy so until the baby is born we will be calling her Spraggle. Obviously we are not hiding the name in anyway but we, superstitiously, don’t want to bring any misfortune upon Spraggle.
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