How we named our baby
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?We let Twitter name our baby!?
With boys? names, I was at a loss. We went through all the books and magazines and nothing jumped out at us. My friend suggested we throw it out on Twitter. From that came this idea to create a whole contest online with a playoff-style voting process to pick his name. Hundreds of names were sent in, and my husband and I ultimately picked the top eight that went into the brackets. Every week, one name was pitted against another. Obviously there were some names I preferred over others, so it was exciting and a little bit stressful?I wanted the names I loved to move on. In the end, we just love his name: Calder Allan William Reid. My dad won the Calder Cup, which is the trophy in the American Hockey League, and my great-uncle won the Calder Trophy, which is for NHL rookie of the year. Hockey is a big part of our lives, and it suits him perfectly. It?s amazing that a crazy idea turned into one of the best things we?ve ever done.
?Meaghan Mikkelson (member of the women?s national hockey team), Calgary
?We let our first kid name the baby?
When I was halfway through my second pregnancy, my husband and I asked Evan, our then four-and-a-half-year-old, what he?d name the baby. ?If it?s a girl, Princess Leia,? he said. ?If it?s a boy, Judah Maccabee.? This wasn?t surprising. He was really into Star Wars at the time, and Judah Maccabee is one of the greatest warriors in Jewish history?he?s the hero in the story of Hanukkah, and it was ri...
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