The Glenn twins.......

I guess it’s time to make the boys names official.  Lordy, what a process this has been.  You think naming ONE baby at a time is hard?  Sheesh.  Try two. 

 

Here’s how it all went down.  Mikey’s middle name is Thomas, after his maternal grandfather, who is still alive.  We had always said we would use Thomas as a middle name if we had a boy one day.  I never really thought I liked it enough for a first name….so a middle name it was.  But, then….when we found out we were having TWO boys, and I wanted to use some of my family’s names in there as well…..  well, then…Thomas started sounding better as a first name.  Really, there was just nothing I ever thought of that I liked better….and there were NO other family names that we liked as first names…..

 

So one of the GLENN TWINS IS………………..

 

THOMAS PUTNAM

 

        TPG

 

 

Putnam is my mom’s maiden name and my grandfather is still alive as well.  It was really important to me to have that side of the family represented (as my dad’s dads’ (woah, probably not the right grammar there.) family was used in Collins’ middle name, Richardson.)  My mom’s dad is Willie Frank Putnam.  Willie is his true first name…so yeah…we weren’t really wild about either of those, so Putnam it is…and besides Putnam is the name I the most sentiment with.

 

And on with the second…….  If you are following all of that:  all of the kids obviously have Mikey’s dad’s family  name (Glenn, duh…our last name)….  Collins’ middle name is Richardson (my maiden name/my dad’s father’s family)…..and now one of the boys has Mikey’s mom’s side of the family represented with Thomas (Thomas is Mikey’s maternal grandfather) and my maternal grandfather represented with Putnam. 

 

GLENN TWIN NUMBER 2 IS……………….

 

GRAHAM MALONE

 

        GMG

 

So, Graham is the only name out of the four that is NOT a family name, but we both really liked it, so Graham it is.  And besides, there were NO other family names that pleased us to use as first names.  Malone is my fraternal grandmother’s dad’s middle name……..got all that?  In other words, my dad’s grandfather was Lewis Malone…. And we like it. My maternal grandmothers maiden name was Ayer and while I like that there are already several people in the family with Ayer as a middle name, so we went with Malone.   I think we have most family names represented except for my maternal grandmother’s and Mikey’s fraternal grandmother and maternal grandmother…but we did our best:-)

 

So, Graham and Thomas it is.  Finally.  We are DONE.  And we both like them.  Glad to have that saga over with……naming babies is a serious job!