Baby Apple

My friend Jolene (Hi Jolene!) asked me the other day how we came up with Apple’s nickname. In case anyone else was curious I though i would blog about it. We found out what we are having on August 11th. I wanted to come up with a nickname to call our baby girl before we actually came up with a real name for her. I wanted to name her something cute that we wouldn’t really name her.

That following morning after we found out, I thought about it and was going through what the stars babies names were because it seems as if they have all these different names as their real names. So I was running all the baby girls names through my head such as Coco, Sunday Rose, Harlow, and then I came across the name Apple, Gwenneth Paltrow’s daughter. Maybe Apple would work because she’s the Apple of our eye. I know it’s kinda corny but I thought it was cute. Later that morning, Gabe and I were heading off to work and I asked him what he thought if we nicknamed our baby girl Apple until we came up with a real name and he quickly agreed and I thought that was weird but was I also thought it was cool that he liked it. So we both left the house and went our separate ways.

On the drive to work, I kept thinking about why Gabe agreed so quickly and how come he didn’t even object to my suggestion and come up with other suggestions like he usually does. On my way home from work that day, I was driving along and I figured it out. Gabe is an avid Apple computer fanatic. We have three Apple laptops, – well 2 now since I spilled milk on mine a couple weeks ago and it got fried , 2 iPods and Gabe has an iPhone. Gabe is a Big Apple advocate and with our last name it works out to be Apple Phan.

When Gabe got home that night I asked him if that’s why he agreed to the nickname so quickly. At first he denied it but had a big grin on his face. I think he must’ve sent me some vibes that morning and I picked up on it somehow and we were on the same wavelength. He finally admitted that it was the reason why he liked the nickname and continued to say that if we were having a boy his nickname would be Mac. What an enginerd!

We have different reasons why we like the name but at least we agreed on it and fairly quickly too. So that’s how Apple got her nickname now hopefully it will be this easy to come up with a real name for her.