I couldn't have picked better names.

Yesterday I blogged about my miracles. I'm not sure if you noticed or not, but all three of my kids have two middle names. I thought today I would explain where we got the names from.

I will start with Noah Michael Wrailey. When I was pregnant I really, really wanted to name him Zebidiah. I know what you are thinking. Who names their kid Zebadiah? It had nothing to do with the name and everything to do with the meaning. Since I was single, I wanted to make his name special. The meaning of Zebidiah is, "gift from God". That was just it, at that time in my life, he was my gift from God! After many people making faces when I would tell them and my brother giving me lots of crap over it, I decided to change it. My favorite bible story had always been the story of Noah's Ark, so I chose to go with Noah. When he was born and I saw him for the first time, I remember saying, "he doesn't look anything like a Zebidiah, he looks just like a Noah".

I could never decide on a middle name so I picked two. Michael is my dad's name and my brother's middle name, so I picked it after them. Wrailey came from my great grandma. When I got pregnant I was taking care of her. That was my full time job at the time. It was her father's name. I even spelled it the way she told me to. It just so happens that when Noah was a few years old one of my cousins ran across some old papers and we found out that Big Maw had told me wrong and that was not the correct spelling. I figured oh well, I spelled it the way she wanted.

Next we have Josie. Her name is actually Josephine Danielle Faith. You see, my name is Stephanie Michelle, I was named after my dad, Michael Steven. I am the girl version and reversed. Once I found out we were having a girl I wanted to try and start a tradition where the first born girl is named after her dad. Dan's name is Daniel Joseph, so that is where we got Josephine Danielle. As for the Faith part, after 27 months of trying for her, it only seemed fitting that her second middle name be Faith. It took a whole lot of Faith to get here her.

That brings us to Maxxwell Henry Douglas. I am sure you are wondering why he has two x's. I saw it one time at one of Noah's baseball games. There was a kid there with the name Maxx and just thought it looked so cool. So I said if I ever had a Max, I was going to give him two x's. Maxxwell was my mom's dad's name. I have always like the name and it is trendy, so it fit. Henry is my grandpa Cleatus' middle name. Douglas is my father in laws name. So that is where we got Maxx's name.

Now that it is all out here on my blog, I hope I never have to explain it again! I really love each of my kids names. They are all very fitting for each of them! I couldn't have picked better names!