Jacob Quinn Fowler

October 8th 2014

I was going through baby clothes I had picked up and sent Tim a picture of a tigger outfit because I know he loves tigger. After I texted him he texted me back "I think his name should be Jacob Quinn Fowler" 

I thought it was funny because I always liked the name Jacob but Tim never did so I didn't even mention it this time around. We were thinking about the name Ian Quinn Fowler and although I really liked the name meaning for some reason everytime I thought of the name it didn't feel like my baby's name. I was going to just let it go because Tim liked it and we thought the initials would be fun (IQ) and Quinn means intellegent/wise/counsel. 

I asked Tim what made him think of Jacob and he said at first he was thinking that Ian sounded too much like Evan and Noelan and he has just mixed them up the other day & didn't want to do it more than he did which would've been easy to do if the names all sounded similar. He then was picturing himself holding and talking to the baby and calling him by his name. He said "Hi Jacob" and he felt like it just felt right. 

I asked all the boys what they thought and it was a unanimous "that's a good name, I like it". 

I can't believe it took so long to officially have a name picked out. Very different than any of our other boys. Even with Caleb who we didn't know if he was going to be a boy or girl we actually had 2 boy names picked out (can't even remember the girl name we had) He was either going to be Roman Elijah or Caleb Cordell and Tim said after he was born he was holding him and looking at him and he said "He's definitely Caleb Cordell not Roman Elijah" 

So that's it - one more month until I get to meet this baby boy face to face and hold him and kiss his little cheeks and call him by his name, Jacob.