Rocket Has A Name!

Six days after Rocket's birth, he now has an official name!

Anders Rocket Ilvedson Daly

Anders: This was the one boy name that we heard early - back when we thought we were having a girl - and thought "you know, we should keep that in mind for the next one." It was also suggested by two different people (Simon & Tara W.) during the "Name The Baby Contest - Lightening Round". It is Scandinavian in origin, and means... man or manly. How more appropriate could you get? We're pronouncing it the Norwegian-ish way, as "On-ders".

Rocket: We've liked the codename Rocket all along, and now that we've been calling him that in person for almost a week it really seems to work.

Ilvedson: We thought about using Ilvedson as a first name, but decided that it would just be a bit too cumbersome or difficult for people to pronounce. We did agree, though, that if he ever becomes a professional baseball player that he would use that as his first name. (Thanks to Jeff Kette for that suggestion!)

Daly: We had a hard time coming up with a way to determine the last name. Neither of us are fans of hyphenated names, so that was ruled out early on. We got lots of interesting submissions that combined both of our last names: Ilvedalyson, Dailvedlyson, even Devilson! But we just couldn't do it. We could have made up something entirely new out of thin air, but that isn't really us, either. So then we were down to a choice of two. Then we thought: "You know, a coin has two sides..." Yes, it's true - we really did flip a coin for the last name. Only a week before the delivery (though we didn't know it at the time), we flipped a coin while sitting in a park in Portland. The photo at right is of the actual coin, and the result of the actual toss!

- Mike (and Corinne and Anders, who will undoubtedly still be called Rocket)