What's in a name?

Maise Jae was an easy one for us to come up with. Maise is from the movie Uncle Buck one of our favs and Jae of course came from The Simpsons. We really liked how different Maise was but also that it was not made up; Jae being adapted from The Simpsons is just totally us. We are Simpson freaks although have really not had time to watch much since the arrival of Ms. Maise. Maise is an Pisces and is part of the reason we call her fish, the other reason is that she was born just around Lent and we couldn't stop singing the Fillet Fish song without singing Maise Fish. We have also been known to call her poo poos, fuss, Maisley, MaJa, Sweet Jae and MJ.

Vanessa Harlow took us some work. We scored big on naming Maise something unique and cool so the pressure was on for us to come up with something great. We actually had a whole other name picked out and changed the plan just weeks before her arrival. We wanted to make her an MJ like Maise but just could not get the right combo. One day we went out for some food and over dinner started chatting about some options and plays on initials, and that is when we came up with Vanessa, we even shook on it. Well the Vanessa combo we came up with happened to be the name of a Canadian Teen Star so we had to tweak it again. I must admit I searched all types of name sites and finally came upon Harlow. When she was first born we called her Little Harlow, the Van Ness Monster, Doofensmirtz, Smirtzie, V, Nessa Pants, and Nessa. Maise dubbed her Nessa and I think that will stick but she will always be my "pants".

Hence the adventures of Fish and Pants!