What's In A Name?

Megan was hot to give her little brother a name.  Well... other than Superman, the most adorable name we have called our little guy since I first laid eyes on his video on the adoption website.  We have all put names and their meanings on a list we have been keeping since the kids were told two weeks or so ago.  so with 14 names we went about the formula to name our Superman.

The formula was relatively simple:

14 divided by 5 sheets of paper, split into a fraction of 5/14 + three rounds, with the second round divided by the square root of 4.... hang in there we are soooo close.... Finally divide 5 into 1 with a little magic you will end up with......

Timothy Joshua Brakman!

Timothy- Honoring God
Joshua- God rescue's
Brakman- One crazy, competitive, nutty tribe of people!

Oh yes, this was completely random and somewhat amusing the connection to the other "internet dubbed" Superman...Tim Tebow, the Denver Bronco's QB!  No one even made the connection until we went final with Superman's name and I pointed out that Superman's real name isn't Tim Tebow, it's of course Tim Brakman!  The girls lobbied hard for Samuel, Beau wanted Jude badly and Wes was the one who truly put the combination (first and middle name) together.  A collaborative family effort.

Now I have to admit having a picture to look at your child is so much easier than the first three of my kiddo's!  Really hard to predict from an ultrasound picture what that future child is actually going to look like!  Or worse, if the name chosen for that baby is really going to fit them!  Gosh knows, I've been told a few times myself...."you really don't look like a Cindy?"  Whatever that means?

In other related news....The in-laws are here for Thanksgiving!  The kids were excited to tell their Grandma and Grandpa.  Not that I am able to decipher the grandparents reaction. But it wasn't a negative reaction, so we will be happy with what we get right!

We are marching forward, full throttle, into our home study portion of this process.  Hoping to get it swiftly done despite the predicted slow down with the holidays.  We are so very thankful for all our blessings and hope you and your families are as well!  Happy Thanksgiving to all!  Well... all two of you anyway, who read this blog or even know about it! ;-}