baby girl's name

After MUCH deliberation and debate, I am thrilled to finally share baby girl's name with you. For some reason, girls' names are SO much harder for us. We could have a gaggle of boys and never run out of names, yet one girl had us totally stumped. The one thing we agreed on from the beginning was that we'd either use my given middle name or my mom's given middle name, as both are classic and traditional names, much like Thatcher's middle name, William. But the first name? We went around in around in circles.

Some of the names on the list were Carter, Peyton, Arden, Alden, Whitney (well, this was never on my list, but the husband loves it), Hollis, Reagan and Chandler. I am sure there were others, but these were on and off the list for months. But we kept coming back to the same name again and again, and even though it's a tad more popular than I would have liked (i.e. it doesn't meet my preference of not appearing in the top 1,000 baby names), I still love it and feel that it suits her.

We can't wait to meet you, Hadley Jayne! What gives her name meaning for me is that Jayne was my given middle name, and my dad actually picked it. While I completely love the name Hadley, the husband has been totally on board with Hadley for weeks and even called her that a time or two (and it's the only name we ever really called her by in that context). So I like that I feel like he named her in many ways, much like my dad gave me the name Jayne. I also think it goes well with Thatcher, which was definitely a consideration.

Let the monogramming begin!