Our son’s name :)
We have decided that our son’s name will be…
Philip Alexander Vasquez!
I would have liked to venture into the realm of “unique” baby names, seeing as this one may come off as classic, traditional, though still pretty. However under the circumstances this name just felt right to me. Philip was the name of Joe’s baby brother who passed away when Joe was about 4 and the baby was, well probably less than a year. From what I remember (Joe told me this story years ago and we haven’t talked about it in detail since, so I’m not 100& sure), one of his younger siblings put a plastic bag of some sort into the crib that the baby was in. When his older siblings came in later to check on the baby, he had passed away :( Poor baby Philip wasn’t even given a chance at life.
I brought it up to Joe before we were even expecting that if we ever had kids and had a boy, if he would like to name it Philip after his brother and he really liked the idea. That idea pretty much stuck when we found out I was pregnant, even though we dabbed into other names and tried to find a nice one. I desperately looked up all kinds of names, especially indigenous Navajo and Nahuatl names. I found a few that I liked, but whenever I thought about naming our son that I felt guilty, like it just didn’t feel RIGHT to name him anything other than Philip, at the very least for a middle name. The more I thought about it, and the more I rubbed my belly and felt my son move, the more it just felt natural that his name was Philip. Even though it may be very traditional and old and not even remotely indigenous or unique, I still love it for the special honor and meaning behind it. For the middle name, it just kind of came naturally with Philip. They just flow together well, I’ve had the name in my mind many months ago. Joe also wanted him to have a strong name, and what better name that’s strong than Alexander, like Alexander the Great? The whole name just feels right to me. Next time I have a baby, I’ll have the chance to come up with some cool unique name, but for now this baby will have a simple but beautiful name to live with, and I think he will love it. :)
