The Name Game

It's been a quiet week around here this week with no guests visiting. My mom and I took Victor on some walks while Damian went back to work part time. Today we were going to try going to a breastfeeding support group (mostly to see how much Victor weighs now that he's a whole four weeks old) but I forgot that if you wake up a sleeping baby 3-4 hours after he's been fed, he's going to want to eat again... whoops! Maybe next week. Mostly we're just waiting around for tomorrow, because we're expecting Damian's parents to arrive sometime around noon after driving all the way from the north end of New York State! So exciting!! :)

So I thought I'd tell the story of how we came up with Victor's name, since everyone keeps asking. Probably because of all the teasing I did about what names we (and by "we" I mean "Damian") were considering. I forget who brought up the name "Victor" first (but I'm pretty sure it had something to do with the TV show Dollhouse). I did, however, have a very vivid dream in which I knew it was imperative that I tell Damian that Victor would be a really good name. When I woke up, I told him, he agreed, and Victor was actually the front runner for several weeks... until, that is, Damian decided that Victor wasn't good enough, he should be named Victorious. Back to the drawing board! Once February rolled around, though, we figured it would be a good time to get serious, so we made lists of our favorite names and picked the best ones from each other's lists. Victor showed up on mine; Victorious on his; so we compromised. We took the top few names we agreed on and went with my version of the name as the first name if Damian could pick any middle name he wanted from his of the names he came up with and I approved of. Theodon was on the his list and I had marked it as an approved name (I actually thought it was Theodore at the time; Damian's handwriting is atrocious. But it's still a good name. Damian got it from one of his baby name iPhone applications, by the way). Damian paired Theodon with Victor and once our baby was born I picked Victor Theodon as the name set I liked!

I like the name Victor because a) it is a real first name b) people have heard of it before c) it is old fashioned and gothic but not horribly so d) it's not a super-popular name here and now. Damian likes the name Victor because a) it means "conqueror" b) it's full of manly consonants. I am glad we went with the noun instead of the adjective.