Day 22-What is in a name?

If you know my husband and I you know what a process it was to name our children.  While we are usually both relatively good at making fast decisions, this was one that took the entire pregnancy of both little man, and little lady.  I would find names that I would LOVE, call my husband and say "THIS IS IT!!" and he would shoot it down in about 15 seconds.  I would pull the "Hey, I am making this baby, I get to name this baby" card, but we both knew that wasn't fair.  We needed our kids to have names that we both loved.  We each had own rules and criteria, if it was a name that was on the top 100, it was out for me.  If it was a name that was over 3 syllables, a name that had a nick-name we didn't like, or was a name that could be a boy/girl name, it was out for my husband.
When we were pregnant with both children, we each had a running list and when our parents would eagerly ask "what is the baby's name going to be??", we would hand over the list.  Needless to say, neither of our children actually got names that were on the lists.    With both of our kids, we liked the names on the list, but just didn't feel like it was THE name.  We had settled on Carter for our first pregnancy... And Alana for our second.  Settled is the key word, we liked the names, but didn't love them for our kids. When we got married my husbands Grandmother gave us a book of our combined family tree. Just a few weeks before little man was born she had just sent us a few updated pages with a few more branches of the tree.  As we looked over the pages, there was a name that stood out to both of us, Gray.  We thought it was different, but we loved it, so that is exactly what we named little man.  And little lady was going to be Alana up until two days before she was born.  I was scanning the web for a last minute idea for names, because I still wasn't sold on the name Alana, and I saw the name Kadence, and said to myself, THIS is it.  I quickly emailed it to my husband, expecting him to shoot it down, and he replied that he loved it as well.  We had finally found a name for our daughter!
While I still love the names for our children, today I found that little man's name is becoming quite a problem when teaching him his colors.  Today while we were in the bathroom, little man looks at my shirt and says "mommy, what color is this?" I told him that he knew and to tell me.  He started to point to all of the colors on my shirt "that one is pink mommy!  And thats yellow, and blue!  That one is Purple!  And black!!!  Wait, mommy, what is this one?"
"That one is gray sweetie."
"NOOOO!!!  I'm Gray!!  What is that color?!?"
"That color is gray"
"no, mommy, THAT one!" (poking me very hard on the arm)
"yes hunny, THAT one is Gray"
"ugh! Ok, then THAT one is mommy." (pointing to pink)
"no, that one is pink"
"That one is Gray, and THAT one is mommy!"

I guess he thought that if he had a color names after him, he was going to name one after me.  At least it was my favorite color!