Avalanche?!!!?!

[silver05.livejournal.com]

My boyfriend is being agonizingly serious about naming his first-born son Avalanche. It seems silly now, and it makes me laugh, but at the same time I'm worried about any future son we may have together. Any calls to attention that this is a ridiculously stupid name causes him to reply:

1) that while it will get him beaten up on the playground and teased in school, he'll grow up tough
2) it's such a cool name
3) that if it gets to the point that we're married and I give birth to his son, and I'm lying there, exhausted and "pretty" and they come in and bring in this little baby boy and he looks at that baby and says, "Avalanche," then he must be pretty serious about it.

So far I've gotten him to agree to Avalanche Joseph so I can call him AJ.

These are the names I'd prefer:

Joseph (a family name)
Samuel (after the prophet)
Berwick (again, a family name, we would call him Berck for short)

I talked this over with my Mom, and she suggested either breaking up with him, putting my foot down about it, or naming him one of my chosen names and letting Avalanche be his father's pet name for his son.

What do you guys girls think?

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[heatherejc.livejournal.com]

My husband kept suggesting Mosquito (yup, Mosquito) for a future kid. That is, until we actually got pregnant. He's all serious with names now. I'd expect that Avalanche would go by the wayside once he realized that there's actually a kid out there waiting to be named.

[silver05.livejournal.com]

I hope you're right!