Saturday, July 3, 2010

And the winners are...

We had originally intended to include one more round of voting, which would be used to determine the name we gave to our favorite child. Unfortunately, most parenting manuals suggest that you don't choose a favorite child until your youngest is at least ten years old. This presented a number of challenges. Do we make our best guess at birth as to which will be our favorite, but switch the names if we prove to be wrong? Do we just continue calling them "Baby A" and "Baby B" until the time comes to make a definitive choice? These just don't seem to be workable solutions.

Therefore, we are stopping the voting prior to the final round, and tallying the bracket scores sometime this weekend. We can tell you right now that Mindy G. absolutely dominated the bracket competition, so the real competition here is for a distant second and third place.

As to the baby name winners (drum roll please)...

Lucille and Cecilia.

You people know that their last name is going to be Stanley, right? That's a lot of sibilance for two kids. On the plus side, "Lucille and Cecilia Stanley" could come to be a fantastic thing to say into mics during sound checks.

Thanks to everyone for participating.