The Name Fiasco

Since I've had several requests and have never posted it, here is the story of how Aric was named:

About eleven years ago, Ryan and I were driving from El Paso to San Antonio and started a discussion on what we would name our children if we ever got married and had any. We decided that we would name any boy we had Chase Cameron. Over the years we tweaked the name a bit until we came up with Chase Levi, which is what was still in the running when I found out I was pregnant with a boy. We called the baby Chase and told anyone and everyone who asked that we were naming our baby Chase Levi. We even received boxes of baby clothes addressed to Chase Levi while I was pregnant.

The week before I was due, Ryan's coworkers asked him what we were naming the baby and he told them Chase Levi. The morning before I was scheduled to be induced Ryan called me at home. His coworkers came up to him that morning and told him that we couldn't use Chase as a name because then our baby would be named Chase Peters and that sounded too much like a gay porn star name. A nine month pregnant woman about to deliver does not receive that news very well. I remember telling Ryan he could sleep on the couch forever and that he needed to change his last name among other things which were very unlike me.

It really bothered me to hear that, though, and I spent the day thinking about names. As much as I liked the name Chase Levi I didn't want to saddle my innocent child with a name that he would be forever tormented for. When Ryan came home we sat down and had a serious discussion about what to name the baby. It was important to me to pick a name immediately because I didn't want our child to be nameless when he entered the world. We finally settled on Aric Levi. Aric is Ryan's middle name, which also accounts for the unusual spelling.

This is the reason we are keeping Baby #2's name closely guarded and why we have to pick her name apart. I would hate to give her a name that could be misconstrued.