A third baby.....a third name to choose. This again was not easy! Before we found out she was a girl, we liked Graham or Harrison for a boy (I liked Leo). But then....it's a girl! Some names we kind of considered were Vivienne, Sylvia, Genevieve, Eleanor/Nora, Annalise, Lydia (but our good friend from college named his daughter that), and Clara (though that was my Grandmas name and we already had Oliver after my Grandpa....... ). I was thinking she would end up a Vivienne, but it just didn't seem right. We didn't even consider Camille until a few days before she was born and I was complaining about all the nice names Nick vetoed....he piped up when I got to Camille and said, "I never said no to Camille, I said no to Camilla". Ok then, after that Camille just seemed fresh and seemed like the right name.
Since there was minimal that we could agree on, after she was born....she was Camille! We didn't know a middle name. She was actually named Camille Viviana in the delivery room for about a half hour. I asked Nick if we could use Viviana in the middle, I thought it was so pretty! I introduced her to a couple of nurses and then Nick said "can you just not say her middle name anymore". He obviously really didn't like it. So back to Camille No-name. We both liked Penelope, but not as a first name. I looked through the top 500 names on the Social Security website that night while nursing, and didn't find anything that caught my eye. The next morning, the Birth Records lady came in to do the birth certificate. I looked at Nick and asked if she should come back or go with Camille Penelope, and he said sure that works. Ha.....that was it. Camille Penelope!
