"Frightful"?

When we announced the news of their baby brother to Ezra and Isaac their first question was about his name. We were on a road trip to Nevada at the time and so we spent about an hour of the drive listening to them come up with possible names.

Isaac kept giving repeated nouns, with the favorite suggestion of "Volcano Volcano" but Ezra pretty quickly came up with the name "Frightful Simon Parkinson". At the time we laughed and said that sounded like a great name! He was so excited about it and although we told him that probably wouldn't be the baby's official name, we never dreamed that all four of us would so quickly become accustomed to using the name "Frightful".

"Frightful" is the name of the falcon in the story My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George (Wikipedia summary here). I can't really tell you why Ezra likes the story so much, or why he latched onto the name, but it has become increasingly sweet to me that he came up with a nickname for this baby. I have no idea where he got the middle name "Simon" though!

We don't plan to name the baby "Frightful," but we do plan to use "Frightful" as a nickname and "Simon" as his middle name. First names are still in debate.