The Story of Axl

So many people ask me about Axl's name and where it came from.  Most people think he was named after Axl Rose or Axl from the sit-com The Middle.  In fact his name didn't come from either of those.

The story began way back in the summer of 2009 when I was pregnant with Olive.   Whenever I get pregnant, I like to play the "name game" immediately, but Scott doesn't like to participate until much later into the pregnancy, at least until we know what we are having. We already had "Olive" picked out if the baby was a girl.  In my typical fashion, as soon as I found out I was pregnant in 2009 I started e-mailing Scott lists of names to name our unborn child should it be a boy.   He replied to every single name with "no."  Finally one day I got fed up and told him that he needed to send me a list of possible names.   In spite, he replied "Axel."  I wrote back and said "never" and then didn't ask him anymore to play the name game.   Shortly after, we found out we were expecting a baby girl and so had nothing left to discuss.

Fast forward to pregnant with Axl.   Because we were both pretty certain we were having a little girl we concentrated most of baby girl names.   Scarlett was the name we finally chose.  We talked a little bit about boy names, but nothing serious.  We both really like the name Michael and figured that would be our baby's name if it happened to be a boy.   Scott and I joked around about the name Axel.   We had picked the middle name Bradley because it is my dad's middle name, so that was easy.   A few weeks before I was due, my dad was over at our house watching basketball with us and he asked about names.  I jokingly said the baby's name would be Axl and he LOVED it!   He and Scott talked about how cool the name was.   So it was at that moment that I told Scott he could name our baby Axl if we had a boy.  I figured I was safe though as I was convinced we were having a little girl.

Fast forward to January 4, 2012 when baby was born, the midwife asked if he had a name and Scott proudly announced "Axl."

I fell in love with the name after my dad told me how much he liked it, and EVEN more in love with it as soon as I saw my baby Axl for the first time.