[Magic_Mikki]

Loooong, drama-filled story... Sorry guys, and thanks to whomever takes the time to read and answer! hehe!

Some of you may remember that I posted about stealing names a while ago. For a refresher, my sister in law was really peeved off when my husband (who is her brother) and I named our daughter Alexandria, because it was a name on her "list" (even though she never mentioned this particular name before). Anyway, DH and I thought the whole list thing was ridiculous, seeing as that when we picked the name, SIL was single with no intentions of getting married or having babies anytime soon. (Not that you have to be married to have babies! hehe!)

Anyway, last weekend we were all over at the in-law's house, and SIL plopped down next to me with a "Don't **** me off with your answer" look on her face, and asked me what names we're thinking about for baby #2. (This baby is a BOY by the way!) Her now-fiance even warned her "not to go there", and it was clear that everyone in the room was aware what she was doing. My husband just warned me not to answer and told his sister that we weren't thinking about any names yet. I said, "No, no... it's ok! I'll discuss it!" I knew what she was getting at, but I'm getting so sick of the issue that I was willing to combat it, head on! I told her of our top two names, hoping that neither of the names were on her new "list": Ethan was my number one, but DH isn't a huge fan, which automatically takes it off the table, and it is also becoming SOOO popular. Also popular, but not as much, is my number two, but DH's number one: Austin. So far, this is the name we are going with, but of course, that could change by tomorrow. She immediately got about 20 different looks on her face, such as the "I knew it!" look, and the "You are a bit**" look, and so on! She screamed for everyone to hear: "But that's number TWO on my list! Go figure you guys would do this!!" As if we could read her mind and knew what names we 'couldn't use'! She made a big deal out of it, and it really started to get on my nerves the more she pouted!

First of all, she's not getting married for a while yet, and after that, they are waiting a year and a half to even start TRYING to conceive because their honeymoon is the summer following the wedding! Second, by the time she actually does conceive (plus another 9 months of hitting the baby-name books) she could very well dump the name like last night's garbage! That is what she does with her "list" all the time, anyway! (Her list is completely different than it was when I was pregnant with #1.)

That whole night was just hell- she rolled her eyes like she was a 17 year old high schooler, (She's 29.. you'd never guess!), and she made all sorts of comments about how we stole her name for Alex, and now we're doing it again. Then, a few days later, she wrote my hubby a text message telling him how pi$$ed she would be if we were to name the baby Austin!

Austin truly is #1 for us (since my actual number one is off the table), but of course we have a while to decide on something else if something else pops up. However, if it doesn't, would it be absolutely horrible of us to name him Austin?? Personally, if this were someone else's situation, I would say Go ahead and name the baby whatever you want! But maybe I'm just being biased... My hubby said we should just do it because SIL is being such a jerk about it (for the second pregnancy in a row)! But I don't want to name our baby a name just to get back at someone. I'm not sure if it is really a matter of morality, but since Austin is kind of a popular name, we're bound to have at least one name in common on our "lists"!!!

What do you ladies think?? Honesty is greatly appreciated! Thanks!