Most of you know the name of our future son at this point but we are making the formal announcement while we wait for his arrival in about a week (Yikes!).
We have chosen the name "August Reid" for many reasons. In fact, we (Aaron actually) came up with it years ago before we even discussed having kids. We've always liked the first name and he really liked the name of an acquaintances's son (Reid) and together it just felt right. So all these years later we get to use it!
August has many appropriate meanings for us. Aaron first found the name from his fathers (German) family tree, it is also Aaron's birth month, and we tend to make our biggest life changes in August for some reason - all major moves we have made have been during this hot month. I think this constitutes a major life change! Another few weeks and he would have been born in August!
August means inspiring awe or admiration; magnificent, majestic, and sublime. We particularly like the reference to nobility and "befitting a lord" (just kidding). We also like that it shortens to "Gus" which is what he will be called for the most part. Aaron was also playing around with words and found "Gusto" (another appropriate nickname?) meaning "vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment". Uh oh. Might be a handful.
Reid is the spooky part. I have always liked the name and Aaron found out a few months ago that it means "red haired" (can you believe that??) or "near the reeds" which is a botanical reference Aaron loves. So that settled it.
It was important for us to have it be a flexible name he could grow with and also be just unique enough without being very strange (ie, Wingspan or Banjo). You will all be getting a better view of his stationery soon (see above with his personalized album and Teddy as spokesbear). He could be a lawyer (August Reid, A.R. Reid) or a lumberjack (Gus) with that name, don't you think?
Warning: in case you are considering monogramming something for us (this is primarily for the grandma's) - don't bother. His initials spell "ARS" which is the same reason Aaron and I cannot have a proper monogram with our married initials which spell "ASS" if done in the traditional way. Let's just hope none of his buddies are familiar with old English.
We can't wait to meet him and introduce you all to him!
2 comments:
You are hiliarious. I promise. No monogramming!
Its so sad. We have to be content with "S" on our towels. You can't help who you fall in love with, can you? Who knew I'd fall in love with a man not compatible with my initials who gave me a super tall baby in my short little womb who would get stuck mid-somersault and not come out right. Sigh. If I had to do it over....LOL.
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