The Double D's

Tony and I started picking baby names well before we were ever married. Unfortunately our taste in names couldn't be more different. Tony tends to like the more unusual, old testament biblical names and I like more current "cute" names. But there have always been two we both loved...

Tony was very close to his grandfather, Delmer, who passed away several years ago. He knew he would like to name his first born after him, so he came up with the name Dellan for a boy. Delmer was called Del, which will also be short for Dellan, while I think it is still cute for a little boy. On our honeymoon in Fiji in the pool at the hotel we were talking about Dellan (obviously not yet created) and middle names. We both wanted a strong, biblical middle name and thought who better than the greatest leader of all time, Moses. I instantly got the giggles and said, "He would be called Delmo!" Since then our future children were always referred to as Delmo somewhat as a joke. When we got pregnant and it came time to name babies, Delmo became D-mo and it just sort of stuck. When we thought both babies were girls Tony and I found ourselves hoping it was D-mo in there. It's funny how he sort of named himself. We were not sure that would ever be his name, but we just began talking to him by name and couldn't change it. So baby B is our little Dellan Moses Knopp.

If our first born was going to be a girl we had come up with the name Delaney (again, this was years before we planned to have kids). I loved the name Delaney and thought it went well with Knopp as it is a 3 syllable name. When we found out the twins were a boy and a girl I looked through hundreds of names for months trying to find names Tony and I would like. I kept coming back to Delaney. Tony and I neither one wanted to name the twins cheesy names that started with the same letter or sounded the same. I was determined to come up with something new for one of them. But they had different ideas. After a few weeks she became Laney (actually Laners) around the house. My mom always called me Laura Louise or Laura Lou growing up and I loved it. Louise is just one of those names close to my heart and I thought Laney Louise was adorable. It is weird to think of them without names now as they move like crazy and we call them by name. Baby A and Baby B sound so silly now, even when writing the blog it was hard not to disclose names, so here they are. Our little baby A is Delaney "Laney" Louise Knopp.

Tony has now taken to calling the twinkies the Double D's (or the grommets or the water bugs)... I 'm sure there are hundreds of nicknames to come. So far we have Delmo, D-mo, LL, Laners....