Not the baby's name

37 week doctor's visit update: Dilated to 2 (yay) and doctor's would consider inducing at 39 weeks since Finley was so big.  I'm kind of panicking now since that is 2 weeks away.  We'll see how things are progressing at next week's appointment, but this baby will likely be here before the first week of May.  Woooooaaaahhhhhhh. 

And I have like 10 posts to do before the new baby dominates the blog...stay tuned : )  Easter pics coming soon, mom!

While we won't be sharing the baby's name until her birth day, I thought it would be fun to share some of the names we didn't pick since we aren't planning to add any more children to the Morgan family - well, unless Pat gets his greatest wish and we adopt a little boy from Ireland - cause you always hear about poor Irish orphans with pretty blue eyes and curly auburn hair, right?  ; )

I always loved hearing what my parents almost named me (Carleen) or my sister (Marta) or Pat's (Sean)...so here is a re-cap of our thought process with the name so I can tell it to my girls someday.

Names that entered the mix in some shape or form:

Frances - really liked this one mainly because it's a family name of Pat's (his middle name, too) but we couldn't get past the fact that someone would surely shorten it to Fran or Frannie

Johanna - liked but didn't make the cut

Harper - Pat's pick, but I though it was too trendy

Emerson - Also too trendy - I have a rule that the name can't be embroidered on anything in the Pottery Barn kids catalog

KC - for a while we really wanted a name that would have initials, but this is much tougher for a girl name than a boy's, and ultimately we couldn't think of 2 names that we loved enough with the initials K (I didn't want to repeat Kristin!) or C

Erika - I liked, but Pat thought it was boring

Campbell - I loved, but Pat thought she'd always be associated with soup

Meredith - one of my favorite names, turns out Pat knew a chubby girl in school with this name so that one was ruined I guess

The name we have chosen was actually one that was kind of always our favorite since we found out it was a girl, and the only one we couldn't come up with a reason we didn't like it.  Can't wait to share it!!

P.S.  If any of these names are yours or your mom/sister/niece/neighbor's, they just weren't right for our family.  We are not implying that any of these names are ridiculous, okay :)  If you have a problem with this, contact Sean and Carly Morgan.