Jackson vs. Jaxon

Your dad and I finally agreed on a boy name if you decide that's the way you want to go. You have, in fact, already decided one way or the other and have the parts to prove it, but we won't find out what those parts are until January 4, 2010.

We had agreed on the name for a while but not the spelling. I'm proud to announce that I won the mini battle. However, if you hate your name, I plan to blame it on your dad and maybe even your aunt Nikki since she strongly promoted the name. We decided on Jaxon Ried--Jax for short. In the end, I think your dad realized that we could not call you Jax and spell your name with a "ck" or everyone would call you Jack (which is a fine name for all the Jacks out there).

I believe it was actually Stewie from Family Guy who convinced your dad it was a good spelling. Stewie was talking to Brian and said something about cool parents who give their kids names with x's in them. I'm not a huge fan of the show--I watch it from time to time--but your dad was nice enough to rewind that part of the show and point it out to me. He'll probably try to tell you that he had already made up his mind about the spelling when he saw that, but I wouldn't be so sure.

I hope you'll like the name we picked out for you, boy or girl, or at the very least prefer it to some of the nicknames we'll come up with for you.