The name we love!

After much thought, many discussions, countless family and friend ideas and lots of page turning in our name book we have chosen a name for our baby boy!

Lane Matthew Sicinski

It is unexpected, right? But we just love it!

And it meets our criteria (which changed a little day to day):

- It is nickname proof
- Does not begin/end with S
- It is one syllable (like Reese and is easy to say with Sicinski)
- It is manly (and a little country - that was not criteria, but it is true)

The contenders were:

- Anderson Lee (but everyone said - oh, you'll call him Andy?)
- Reid Matthew (love love love this name, but it is really close to Reese and it puts us in the R category if we have a third child)
- Miles Joseph, Hudson Lee, Clark Lee (all great names, but they never felt quite right for this baby)

Lane had crossed my mind but I had dismissed it. Then on Saturday we were watching the movie 8 Seconds about the bull rider Lane Frost. We both had the same idea - what about Lane? We have a great friend from San Angelo with the name. Why not?

It felt right from then on. We said we'd try it out for the week, get a feel for it, and it's made us happy since. I started telling people and calling him Lane and now it's official! Oh and Matt's on board too! ;) I'm just more social about the whole thing.

We had been calling him Anderson as that was really our top name, but the "Andy" nickname was shying us away from using it. We wanted a name that couldn't be nicknamed where you would lose the original. Reese is still calling him Anderson, but only a few more reminders that his name is Lane and she'll be good. The past two nights she has kissed Lane via Mommy's belly.

Oh, the name makes my heart smile! We hope you love it as much as we do! I've got to get monogramming!!!