What's In A Name

I don't need any baby name books.

I don't need this sweet a$$ baby-naming website either: Baby Name Generator.

Why would I need those, when I have people all around me. The only thing people are currently interested in, is what Jeff and I will name our son. Since Jeff and I are telling everyone, honestly or not (you can be the judge of that), that we do not have a name picked out yet, the next thing everybody wants to do is offer up some names.

I thought, I must be mistaken, that since I am doing all the work, that I got to name this little guy. Apparently, everybody who knows me finds it is partly their job.

Currently, two of my aunts, we can call them Aunt Joni and Aunt Mary, are amidst a very facebookly public debate over my son's name. Ever since I married Jeff, Aunt Joni has been adamant about us naming a son Maxim. For, back in the day, there was a very famous Russian communist leader named Maxim G. I mean, really, who wouldn't want to name their kid after a Russian communist. Just think of the things he could do would that name. Not to mention, he's incredibly handsome....

Aunt Mary has come back with fight. She thinks Maxim is an awful name. She prefers Trout, even implying that my grandfather would love it, because he was an avid fisher. My grandfather was an extremely honest man, sometimes brutally honest. I feel, quite the opposite of Aunt Mary. I believe that my brutally honest grandfather, if he were alive, would ask me what the hell I was thinking and that Trout is the name of a fish not a human. So, that is what I feel about her name.

With the names that my family has decided to name my child, I am better off visiting the baby name generator site if I need advice. According to the genie, Colton Moses just seems to float off the tongue. What do you think? Maxim, Trout, or Colton? Or do I need to purchase a book?