little man sam!

so remember a few weeks ago when i put potential names up for a vote to help us pick a name for little man??  well, it totally worked. in the end, i realized how much i really did want to name the baby sam. i really felt sick about what to name the baby and about 2 days before he was born we went to barnes and noble to pick some books for the boys and i saw the book "sam and the firefly." i thought the name sam looked so cute all by itself and i realized we could solve the dilemma of having cousins with the same name by not naming them the same name!!! we didn't have to name him samuel, we could just name him sam!! the problem was we couldn't think of a middle name that sounded good, so we spent the next couple of days brainstorming. amid the brainstorm we thought the middle name houston sounded cool, but felt too silly naming the kid sam houston... although we were pleased to find out sam houston is not samuel either, just sam. so we'd like to thank him for the precedent :) after sam was born we tried calling him different names, but he was just sam. then my parents came to visit the hospital and my dad mentioned that sam was born on my dad's grandpa's birthday... grandpa thornton.... sam thornton ... that sounded good!! problem solved!! welcome to the world sam, we're so happy to have you!!