What's in a name?

I was waiting for Ben to tell the story of how we chose Lori's name, but he hasn't done it yet, so I thought I'd go ahead and do it.

When I was pregnant, before we knew the sex of the baby, Claire had an idea for a baby boy's name. Here's the conversation we had:

Claire: Mommy?
Me: Yes?
Claire: You know how there's a baby Tiger?
Me: Mmhmm
Claire: Well, I think if we have a boy we should name him Truck.(she was dead serious, this made perfect sense to her)
Me: (giggle) We'll see. It may be a girl.

So, Tiger is the name of the son of one of our friends from church. He is really cute. I've known his parents for quite some time. His mom taught me in sunday school when I was 10 or 11, I think. We told them what Claire had said. They thought it was really funny. They proceeded to tell just about everybody we went to church with. I had people come up to me several Sundays after that and mention the story. His mom, even offered me $10 to name our baby "Truck".

Then I found out it was a girl. Of course, Truck wouldn't work for a girl. A few people suggested some different car names that sounded a little girly, but most of them were pretty ridiculous. Then about a week before my due date, I got a call from Tiger's dad. He left a message, he said that he and his family had been sitting around the table discussing our baby's name. (We still hadn't picked a name yet, we were debating between Lucy and Laura.) It came up in their conversation that in England they call trucks, lorries.

Ben, upon hearing this, had decided that was it. Her name had to be Lori. The story was too good. I needed a little more time. After she was born, it took us several hours to finally make it official.

Now we have a new Yaris and a new Truck

Needless to say, Tiger's family was tickled pink by our choice. Claire was excited when she realized that she was the one who named the baby.(We had to explain it to her)

Hopefully little Lori won't mind having the nickname, Truck.