With Judah, it was really easy. We both loved the name and had decided on it before we knew whether or not we were having a girl or a boy. If it was a boy, with out a doubt it would be Judah.
And the name fit him perfectly.
Judah means "praise"--and our little guy is so full of joy and life & he just loves to experience life to the fullest, he fits it to a tee.
This time we had a whole long list of girl names and just a few boy names that we kind of liked. We were sure it was a A girl...as in ONE, just one little girl.
We were so wrong :)
When we found out we were actually going to be having TWO babies, we still assumed that there had to be one girl in there...
So, we got to work on choosing two names.
Two girls names? No problem.
A boy & a girl's names? Not too difficult.
TWO boys names? We could not decide.
SO, when we found out we were having TWO boys...we were at a loss for quite a while as to what we would name these two little babes.
We knew we wanted to name one after my family and one after Andrew's.
We kind of tossed some name combos around for awhile. We really did not want them to sound "twinny"--no matchy matchy names, nothing that started with the same letter.
Then we found two that we both could agree on, but we were not completely sure if they were "the ones" :
Ryder Elwood & Will Albert
Ryder was a name that Andrew came up with & I liked it more than any of his other suggestions :) Elwood was Andrew's paternal grandfather's middle name. Will was something we came up with after struggling to find a way to name one of the babies after my dad. My maiden name was Williquette & my dad has always gone by "Willy" as a sort of nickname. So, we decided that Will would be the perfect way to honor my dad :) And Albert was my very special grandpa.
We had not looked into name meanings much in our quest to find the perfect name for our boys, so just out of curiosity we decided to see what the meanings of the first and middle names we had picked out were...were were shocked at what we found!
RYDER- warrior on horseback
ELWOOD- noble forest
WILL- strong-willed warrior
ALBERT- noble & bright
We couldn't believe it. It was then that we knew these were the perfect names for our sweet boys. Our two little noble warriors :)
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