Sage Alexander Ford?

We're settling on a name now. If the baby had been a girl, she'd have been Violet Emma Ford. About a year-and-a-half ago, Michelle had a dream about a lovely baby girl named Violet, and Jason liked the middle name 'Emma', in honor of Emma Goldman.

Some time after the girl dream, Michelle had a dream about a boy named Brian. Unfortunately, he was not nearly as lovely as Violet had been. So, we knew the baby would not be named 'Brian.'

After browsing through a couple of those 100,000+ baby name books, and eliminating tempting choices such as 'Zebediah' and 'Apollo', we honed in on 'Sage'. We think it's a lovely name.

With such a short first name and such a short last name, it feels like baby will need a longish middle name. And, we like names with the X or Z sound. 'Alexander' works on both counts. We hope to settle on a name officially very soon!!