http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2005/06/04/if-you-like-baby-names-you-will-love-this/

very impressed. this is my husbands TRUE passion actually. we own a holistic health center in st. louis http://www.bcoh.org and this issue is front and center. just wanted to connect and say “good on ya!”

can you tell me about your groups approach to wellness promotion and chronic disease management and/or plans for future? i HOPE they include physical therapy working along side the primary care team. so cost effective and life changing for patients. would love to share our model. i SO have to get you and shawn talking.

Brin, I absolutely love- I had a friend growing up who was Kristin Brin I always loved and had hoped someday to have a girl and name her that. I also love Taylor (good for a middle name also) and call her “Tay” and my other one is Tess Alexandria.

For boys, I have been a big fan of Colin and Owen which are Irish I believe but I like the way they sound.

How about Brin and Owen? Kind of sing songy but I love it.

Its so exciting and fun. Picking names is exciting and I wish you all the best if picking them out. Love ya!

and Jenn, you are WAY ahead of the game with your names i have friends that have known thier kids names as well since they were little girls and fell in love with a certain name combo. LUCKY YOU. i’ll start praying now your other half is with the program and gives you the green light on all accounts as they are each lovely. Isn’t Liam a cool name? How lucky are we to have been married by one of the coolest Irishmen on the planet with this very cool name?

michelle… gift from God. that our twins are. maybe michael and michael-ette thanks for the name.. i din’t know this was the meaning for michael. no wonder it’s a shoe-in for top 10 boy names! so dear.

Genevieve Anne is the girls name (Anne is after my mom) and I’ve LOVED Genevieve for the longest time, can’t help it.

Liam Emerson for the boy (Emerson has a long history in my hubby’s family) and I love, love, love Liam.

I’m also drawn to Emily Grace for a girl for some reason, just like the way it sounds together – so peaceful .

Best of luck to you in the baby naming!!!

xoxo
~Jenn/@jrporter

Ok. I LOVE Amelia. I also love the name Jane as a middle name, as it actually seems to get used. Amelia Jane is sing-songy, and lovely, and yet it sounds like a scrappy little girl could do some damage with it.

And I love my William’s name. It’s so classic and versatile. Will, Willem, Liam . . .
You’ve got the last name that goes well with the celtic names, so I’d so go with
William Sean Tucker.

SO tempted to write my long list of favorites.

But I won’t.

Love you and the belllllllly,

J

for me it does matter how they go together/sound with our other kids names, (though practical mommy thought i was a little nuts when i mentioned this at the baby shower!!@#!) keep em coming folks. i am feeling ever more hopeful our babies will not be namely forthe first 2 days of life while we sit around still thinking of names!!@#@!

@kevinpmiller sent me some nice ideas too… including xavier somewhere in the mix for the boy.

Michelle

Your older girls first names are 6 letters-2 syllables and these little twinkies will be 3 letters-2 syllables (freaky coincidence or obsessive compulsive parents…doesn’t matter this way).

LEO – LIke a lion. I love that LEO is your dad’s name and hasn’t been used yet with all those grandchildren (grab it girl!). You love Greece and Leo is from the ‘Greek’ Leon.

IVY – She’ll be intelligent “Ivy League” school material. She will be a ‘climber’ (i.e., “ivy” and one meaning) and another meaning of the name is ‘faithfulness’.

I like how Leo and Ivy “go together”.

I can see your Christmas cards now –> Reilly, Morgan, Leo and Ivy