'Emmit John'

We've had lots of compliments on Emmit's name, and some comments about it being different/unique so I thought I'd do a little post on how it came to be. We took the same approach as we did with Ellie - middle name first. 'John' is the name we chose after Colin's Grandpa Jacques. Colin and Grandpa Jacques shared their birthdays (June 30 and July 1) so Colin had special memories with him from that growing up. He was the only Grandpa Colin knew (only 1 of 2 grandparent's he knew) so we were happy to honor his memory with our son's name.

For his first name, he also took the same approach...we each compiled our lists of names we liked. We did this for the first time back in March on our trip to Spain. We then exchanged lists and widdled down to our 'agreed upon' list. Amazingly, Emmit was the only name we each had on our original lists so I think it was just meant to be. We debated on spelling a little...'Emmit' was how we both initially spelled it (and the spelling we went with), but at one point learned that 'Emmett' was the more common spelling. There's also 'Emmitt', like Emmitt Smith, but we didn't feel like 2 t's were necessary. As a sidenote, I did have to confirm that Emmitt Smith wasn't some corrupt professional athlete before we decided for sure =) As it is, when I've told people Emmit's name, I've had a few say 'like the football player' - yep I guess so.

So, Emmit John it is...I never thought of Emmit as being unique, but I guess it is not super common. We definitely like it though, and it's who he is. We actually decided on his name quite some time ago, it's who he's been for months already now despite just 2 weeks old =)