Adoptive Name

This weekend my husband and I had a chance to really discuss middle names for Sam.  We have talked a couple times briefly on the subject and narrowed it down to a name we really liked, but then for extra measure, we decided to think on it some more just to make sure we were happy with our decision.  We have committed to the middle name we originally liked.  I sent an email this morning to our county work with the adoptive name, so she will be able to prepare all the adoptive placement papers that we will be signing at the end of May.  We will be keeping the first name the same (although changing the spelling to the one we have been used to...originally Sam's name was spelled two different ways, and we went with the way on the medical card thinking it was correct, and now we are used to that way, but his birth certificate has the other spelling), giving him a new middle name, and then our last name, of course.

I don't plan on sharing the middle name on here, but we (my husband and I) haven't discussed when we are sharing the name with our families, so this is a way for me to express my excitement at having decided on a name for our adorable little man.  I was hoping to use a biblical name because we gave James a biblical name, and I thought it would be neat to keep that a common theme, and fortunately, the name we liked the best is a biblical name, so that worked in my favor (although I would have been content if we had settled on a non-biblical name as well).

Technically we could have found a family name to use, but that didn't feel right at all because James was not given a family name, so it would be messed up to use a family name on the second but not the first child.  However, like I said, both of the names we gave them are biblical names, so they do have a common theme.  They also both got to keep their birth first name (although James' was moved to his middle name and Sam's spelling got changed).  We wanted to keep part of their birth names because it was important to us, and down the road, it may be important to our boys as well.

Anyway...we also signed Sam up for the baby dedication at our church occurring over Father's Day weekend.  However, we talked to the coordinator, and if the adoption has not been finalized in time, we will postpone the baby dedication until next time it is offered.  Everything looks like the adoption should finalize the beginning of June, but you never really know how that will occur.  It would be really special for Sam's dedication to take place on Father's Day weekend...not just because it is Father's Day weekend, but also because James was dedicated on Father's Day weekend as well.  In my mind that would be wonderful.  Of course I will be happy whenever the dedication happen though.  : )