On the name...

How did we come up with Waylon Michael Hall????

Well...we are both fans of Waylon Jennings...to some degree...and thought it sounded perfect. It isn't too plain...like Bob (no offense to any Bob's reading this...Bob is a perfectly great name...) but wasn't too crazy...like Zanzabar. (no offense to anyone named Zanzabar reading this...Zanzabar is a perfectly great name...kind of...)

Now for the middle name. Both me and Jess love our brothers: Michael (Dave's only brother) and Matthew (Jess's younger brother). So we thought a friendly game of rummy would help decide who's name we would be using. We had played MANY games of rummy together...and we had a pretty even record (in Jess's mind) so it was a fair match. What Jess failed to realize is:

A) I was duping her the every time we played before...letting her win some for the obvious guy reasons and....

B) There was something SERIOUS on the line.

So we decided that we would play games to 500 and whoever won the most games before the baby was born would get the middle naming rights.

I won. No...I conquered! ha

By the third or fourth month Jess was behind 12 games...and conceded defeat. Now...some may think that I should have been a better husband than that...and let her win...but I am a BIG believer in equal rights. ;) That would have been chauvinist of me.

So there you have it. Don't hate the player...hate the game.