William is 2 months old as of yesterday, and I am still surprised that Grant and I named him William. With all 3 kids, Grant would never let me settle on a name until they were born. With Isabelle, it was a little annoying because I knew her name would be Isabelle. Because it was very important to Grant, I agreed to not get anything with a name on it (blankets, name on the wall..ect) until they were born. He is a firm believer that you don't really know the name until you see the baby. Part of me is glad we did that, and part of me wishes that we could have picked a name before they were born. Izzy's name never changed. Kensi's name didn't really, but we were pretty unsure until about a day after she was born.
Now William is a bit of a different story. His first name was never going to be William, that was going to be his middle name. It's Grant's middle name and I believe a family name too. His middle name is Ellis, and that also is a family name, if I'm not mistaken. When we were picking out names, my front runners were Caden, Joseph, and Camden. Grant's were Ellis and Virgil. Unlike the girls, we were at polar opposites. I wanted the more modern name, and Grant was going more old school. If I had my way, he would have been named Joseph William Tegtmeier. Joseph is the name of my brother, my dad, and at least one of my grandpas, and I would have loved to name him after them. Plus, I really liked how Joseph William sounds together. Grant liked it, but he was campaigning pretty hard for Ellis. I do like the name Ellis, but I wasn't in love with it. I was a little worried we'd be at that stalemate forever and that one of us would have just relent and learn to live with the name. I read online how that has happened before, and I really didn't want it to happen with us. Then Grant came up with having William be the first name instead of the middle. I liked that idea, but then the question became: What would his middle name be? We had solved one problem, only to gain another. So then the same two names, Joseph and Ellis, were still the ones we were looking at. I still really wanted Joseph, and he still really wanted Ellis. I, obviously, relented and his middle name became Ellis. Now, don't get me wrong, I do love William's name. I'm pretty sad that we didn't use Joseph, though. Isabelle's middle name is from me. My middle name is Lynn as is my mother's. Kensi's middle name is Marie after Grant's mother. So with William being the last, and the only boy, I wanted him to have names from both sides of the family. He could have had William for Grant's side, and Joseph from my side. What made me relent was the fact that William is the only boy, and (so far) is the only one to carry on the Tegtmeier name. If you know Grant's family, from what I understand they are descendants from royalty. When you get to know them, you can see it come out sometimes. So it makes William almost the "golden child" in a sense because he's going to carry on the family name. That kind of thing is very important to Grant, and so I decided that since it is that important to him, that I would "give" him the name he wants. Don't misunderstand me, I am very happy with William's name. It's a good, strong name that suits him very well. I'll always be sad that we wont have a boy with the name Joseph in it, but it doesn't make me love William's name any less.
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