It starts with a D

So as I have said before Daniel and I are not planning on telling D's name till he is born, amazingly so far I haven't slipped! Since I am now looking more obviously pregnant we've been getting more questions. "Oh when are you due?" "Do you know what it is?" "Oh have you thought of names?"
The answer to the last question is typically "Yes, but we do not plan to tell anybody till he arrives" unless one of us is feeling frisky and then the answer is "well we haven't thought of a first name but the middle name will definitely be Danger!" typically we save that response for friends as they get that it's a joke! And amazingly most people don't press any more after we tell them that we aren't telling. (I hear from a lot of people that even when they say they are not telling they get constantly hounded to tell.)

But Daniel and I work with Jr High students at the church we attend so there are a lot of Jr High girls who are dying to know his name. When I told them that it started with a D the guessing game began.

Here are a few names (off the top of my head that people have taken as a guess) that are not D's name:
-Daniel (Jr)
-Damian
-Donavon
-Dexter
-Dallas
-David
-Dakota
-Darius
-Damon
-Dalton
-Dathan
-Dorian
-Duncan
-Dante
-Daryl
-Decker
-Demarcus
-Devon
-Dwite
-Diego
-Doc
-Donald
-Doug
-Drew
...etc

Most of these guesses came from the Jr High girls...and some of them I just have to give them the strangest look for. Seriously, Demarcus lol!

Name games

Little D,

Today I asked your dad how he wanted to spell your name, there are a few different ways that it could be spelled so it's just a matter of choosing which spelling we like best.
He said to me, "why are you asking, I thought that we had already had the spelling for his name set" and I will say that I did too but when he spelt your name out for me the way he was thinking we were spelling it, it was different than the spelling I had been thinking we were using.

So I guess it was a good thing that I asked!

It definitely wouldn't be a good thing if your parents didn't even spell your name the same way.
Yikes.
So while I tried talking about it today we didn't get anywhere other than finding out we don't have the spelling set. We have two spellings that we have to choose between (the way I had been spelling it and then the way he had been spelling it) and hopefully he will talk more with me about it when he gets home.
I would just set up a poll and see what spelling "the people" think is best but since we are not telling anybody your name right now (and don't plan to till you are born) we can't. We're on our own here, but don't worry you will have a set spelling for your name by the time you get here!

Update: We settled on a spelling! Daddy really liked the way he was spelling your name best so we're going with that.