I like Camilly for a nickname. It rolls of the tongue easily. Celeste has gotten off easy about being teased. It just takes one little booger to hear “Celeste the pest” and then she’ll be stuck with it.

Our high school basketball team made it to the state tournament this year and one of the boys on the roster is named Chester Lester. I like just saying his name but I bet he’s been teased most of his life.

I remember thinking Camille was a good name because it couldn’t be mangled into something annoying. I thought it might get shortened to Cami, but for some reason, it ended up being Camilly.

I worried that Celeste might get stuck with “Celeste the Pest,” but so far, the worst she’s gotten is Celester or Lester.

I like the way Aidan sounds… My cousin named her baby boy Gideon (I’m not completely sold on it but at least it’s not another common name).

Even when I first read about your Camille… I thought of Bill Cosby talking about his wife, stretching her name out “Cameeeeeeeeeelle”. It’s sweet that Celeste wants to name her baby girl after her. That’s how I got my name… from my mom’s baby sister that passed away (I think before she was even a year old).

Camille’s name I got after listening to Bill Cosby talk about his wife. I’ve never known a Camille, but the way he spoke of his Camille with such awe touched me. I liked the name from then on. Celeste says when she has a daughter someday, she wants to use that name for her.

My friend Carolyn just named her son Aidan. I love that name. Boy names were impossibly hard for me. It’s a good thing I had girls.

I have this book called Baby Name Personality Survey that I still keep in my home office for help when I’m trying to come up with a character name. Rather than just say what a name means, it says how people they surveyed tended to think a person with that name looked, acted, behaved. It’s fun to look up everyone you know to see if their name fits.

I love that you find pennies from the year Camille was born. That has to make you smile.

I have a weird question… how did you choose Celeste and Camille’s names? A lot of my friends chose the popular names when they had kids. I’ve always thought if I ever had kids, I’d like something different… maybe even borderline unusual.

With the pennies–there have been so many times when Celeste and I are out somewhere and we find a penny from 2002 (the year Camille was born). We’ve almost never found any other year.

Karin, I think it’s funny that you always referred to your uncle Edgar as “a relative” in your column… bet he got a kick out of that. Glad you posted the pic too, it’s really cute.