Names have been assigned!

After much deliberation, we've made our decisions. For those in the tech crowd, I believe these are unique names for our 2 new little resources. Drum roll please........

Gwen Marie Orchard and Bryce Warner Orchard are the names for two of the most recent additions to planet Earth.

There's some family history involved. Little Bryce is now the 7th generation first-born Orchard male to bear the name Bryce. Historically, this has always been a middle name but we also wanted to include Deanna's family name in his name and we didn't want 4 middle names, hence the movement to Bryce as a first name.

There's another family tradition, which is that the second-born male bears the name Charles, though this is subject to some shortening as my Grandfather (an only boy child) was Charles Bryce. Given that we had twins, it's fairly unlikely that we will have another boy - that would mean having another child with only 50% chance of boy - so the tradition of Charles might be in tough ground. And we didn't want to saddle poor 2nd born by 2 minutes Gwen with Charles as a middle name :-)

I believe these combination of names are unique. Interestingly, Bryce is a rapidly rising name and Gwen doesn't even show upon the Baby Name Wizard.

I noticed something super cool about their names yesterday. We've been alternating them for nursing and marking in the spreadsheet "B" for Boy and "G" for Girl. The first letter of their names is the same as the first letter of their Boy/Girl gender, so that pattern still works. How cool is that?