baby alexanders birth announcement (+ what's in a name...)

here we are, with baby alexanders birth announcement finally ready to go... not late at all, who am i kidding? things have been a little crazy around here!

so... where did we get the name from - is a question we have been asked a lot over the past few weeks.

well. we threw around sooo many names and there was always either one of us that wasn't happy with the choice we would be discussing. i was convinced this baby was going to end up with a "h" name, as they were the ones being discussed the most.

i liked:

henry and hayden

doug suggested hudson, which joseph jumped at, can you imagine his baby brother being named after the fabulous hudson hornet? haha. then in came madeline who decided she was set on hunter.

plus i still loved:

leon and lennox 

which are both names we planned to call joseph...

one night while were laying in bed, almost asleep i said, "what about alexander?" doug replied with mmmmm, which led me to believe he liked it, only to find the next day he'd been more or less asleep, hadn't really heard me and didn't seem to be a fan. back to square one. 

from the day we knew we were having a boy, baby was always going to be something james, after dougs (childhood and still very much) best friend who lives in brisbane. he and doug are still firm friends after all these years and i adore him too. so that bit was easy.

a few weeks passed and doug was like, what about alexander? me: pffft. really? but i still did love it. dougs mum was super keen as well, as it had a samoan option - aleki. (he is now getting aleki and leki a lot) plus there were so many other nickname options: alex, xander, lex (i think this is what may have gotten doug on board. lex like lex luthor the villain from superman haha). but, it was still a toss up between some names and we just couldn't decide. all the h names seemed to go by the wayside and we were down to alexander and lennox. 

when he was born, everything happened so fast, there were people everywhere and we just didn't get time to talk about it or really decide. so the next day we sat down, looked at him, talked about it more... and he just wasn't a lennox. we both associated that name with much darker features and it just didn't seem right. alex seems like a red head name to me and it just worked. so alex it was. this time around was for sure the hardest to pick the name, but he suits it and we love it. and him. he is simply the best and we are obsessed ♥