Re: Inspiration for children's names? We wanted the boys to have unusual names, but names that were strong as well. All of the boys have odd letters in their names. The first two, we knew for awhile, the baby we figured him out in the hospital.
Maxwell Alexander - has 2 x's
Tucker Quinn - has a Q, and not many kids named tucker out there (we were hollering for him somewhere and someone remembered us several weeks prior hollering for him at a movie theater because his name was unusual).
Gage Izak - has the Z and Gage isn't a very popular name either.
A funny story about Tucker's name though - we were on the way to the hospital to have him induced. We had a few hours to kill. DH was sick and was going to have major surgery in a few days. We had just spent $1K to bank the baby's cord blood and didn't really have it at the time, but the oncologist thought it was a good idea.
So we stopped at a casino out of the way and we were playng a blackjack game with a side bet to match 10s, particularly queens of hearts.
So if you had $1 out on the bet, and you got the Queens of hearts, you won $150. DH never plays that and I was kicking him to do it cause he lost some along the way, $4 here, $20 there for not betting.
So he bets it and a few hands later, he gets the Queens of Hearts. Well, if you got that hand, but the dealer had an Ace showing and rolled a blackjack for the dealer, you got 1000 to 1. Sure enough, we won.
The pit boss, when we told her we were on the way to have a baby, she said we should name it "queenie" if it was going to be a girl. We told her the name was already picked, and his middle name was "quinn". So it wasn't lady luck, it was baby luck. And it was a sure sign we'd picked the right name!
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