I just realized that some of my readers don’t know me in real life, so I really ought to introduce the babies!!
We had a boy and a girl! Just like Luna told us we would before we even knew we were having twins, haha. I actually knew that from about 31 weeks when I found out accidentally by looking at one of my charts (the doctor said the info wasn’t on there, she was wrong), but I kept it to myself so as not to spoil the surprise.
Their names are Freya Lindsay Bowrin (5lbs12oz), and Archer Peter Bowrin (6lbs8oz). Lindsay is my last name, and Peter is my dad’s name. It was important to me that all our babies have something from my side of the family in their names, since they have Adam’s last name and thankfully he agreed with me, so that’s one less thing to argue about.
We struggled a bit to come up with a short list of agreed upon names because we both have very strong opinions, and consider naming your kids to be one of the most important first decisions you make for them. It’s essentially giving them a label; assigning them the first impression they’ll make on most of the world. So many people hear or read your name before they ever meet you, and we’ve always wanted our kids to have unique names, but ones that are fairly easy to spell and don’t make you stop and say “what were their parents thinking?”
Not to mention we had to come up with a set of names for each possible gender combination! We never did find two girl names that we really loved together, which would have really stressed me out if I hadn’t secretly known what we were having. Of course I did have to pretend to be worried about it, to keep adam from guessing that I knew, which caused a different kind of stress. Totally worth it to keep the surprise alive for him though.
Freya was very nearly called Scout, instead. To be honest that was my favourite of our girl names, and if we have another someday I may still want to use it. But as it usually turns out when naming babies, I can’t imagine calling Freya anything else now, the name is just so perfectly her. I love that it’s feminine but also strong, and it certainly stands out.
Archer was always Archer, as far as I was concerned. Link was our second choice (although I think it became Adam’s favourite near the end), and while I did love it, I felt like there were too many little boys called Lincoln who go by Link, making it a more common choice than I was comfortable with. Of course, now that the newest royal baby is named Archie, I can imagine that Archer will have a steep jump in popularity for those who don’t want to use the nickname on it’s own… hopefully it won’t be too crazy. The definition of a First World Problem, for sure, but that would make me sad.
They’re both doing amazingly well, and have gained just over a pound and a half each in 8 weeks. Now that I’ve resigned myself to writing from my phone there will be much more regular posts both about them and our new life as a family of five!
Next up is their birth story, and that’s going to take me several days to write. Which make sense I suppose since the story itself take place over a few days.
So to tide you over until then, baby pictures!
From Three to Five 