What's In a Name

I thought I was being "out of the box" when I named my children. Nothing too trendy or too popular. I was wrong. Anna seems to be a popular name out here and Kayla, or some version of it....Kaitlyn,Kaylee...Kylee, is very trendy. When Anna joined her new team last year there was already an Anna G. Then when Kayla joined her new team they already had a Kayla. The coaches asked the girls if they had a nickname so it would be less confusing. I thought they could call Anna, Anna Lee, but she wouldn't hear of that. She told her coach to call her Bob. Bob? Really? That's better than Anna Lee? Kayla's should have been easy. She has a lot of nicknames. I call her Nick (her middle name is Nicole), Ryan calls her KK, Amy calls her Kee Kee....but did the child use any of those? Nope! She told her coach she wanted to be called Milton. My children are weird! The crazy part of the whole thing is that Bob was my paternal grandfather's name and Milton was Ryan's paternal grandpa. The girls had no idea. Well...to make a long blog short, Anna is just called Anna or Anna Goebel. Seems to work and hasn't caused any confusion on the field. Kayla is now called Ini. When her coach asked who her favorite soccer player was she said Andres Iniesta. So it got shortened to Ini and stuck.