How we decided on her name...

Yes, we have a name and there's a story behind it. You've heard it before, but it took a while for us to agree.

We both like Madeline Brooke. It fits my criteria and Craig's criteria as well. Craig added a piece of criteria that I was previously unaware of...the name had to be able to be shortened into a nick name. Mady works for this name.

However, Craig didn't like the spelling of Madeline, so he wanted to change it to Madelyn. While I know this is an acceptable spelling of Madeline, I am also aware that it's not the common spelling, so if Craig wanted Madelyn, it was off the table for me since it's a weird spelling. He thought Lynn was a better nick name and if you spelled Madeline like Madelyn, then it worked better. We were back to the drawing board. sigh.

Until today.

Craig wanted a larger TV, I said ours worked so why bother buying a new one. One of his friends replaced his giant TV with a plasma. I want to stress that there is a reason this guy was selling his old TV, and while it is significantly cheaper than it was four years ago, there is a reason this technology has been replaced. Craig asked me about the TV a couple of weeks ago and I told him I was really, really not interested. He reluctantly agreed that we didn't need it and I thought the TV was forgotten about. Or maybe it's just that I forgot about it. Craig, however, did not.

He began to talk about this TV again recently and I reiterated that I didn't want the TV, but that it was his decision. He did just get promoted and this is a great promotion gift to himself. He doesn't buy things or gadgets often (never really), so I caved and said I would look at the TV. Today, we looked at the TV and it convinced me that I really didn't want it. It convinced Craig that he really did want it. As we were teasing back and forth, I threw out, "if we spell Madeline with an "I", then we can get the TV." Before I barely got the statement out, Craig agreed. No rebuttal, no complaints, no nothing. Thus, the name of our child is less important to him than this TV. I tease with that last statement because the actual name has not changed, only the spelling, but he was extremely quick to give in when getting something he wanted. Hmmmmmmmmmmm.

So, this is what he traded in lieu of spelling the name he wanted:
This is something our daughter will definitely hear about when she's older. How her father chose a TV over his preference for her name. As I type this, he is grinning ear-to-ear as he's watching TV. His TV. His pride and joy.

So there you have it, we've named our baby Madeline Brooke, two days before my due date. All for the price of a used TV I've nick named Mr. Crappy.