New pics are up!

Check the link on the left side. This should help flesh out yesterday's events.

Here are our children (wow! plural!), saying goodnight to each other. Notice Balen's grip.



Check out the excel file with all the names we considered. The first sheet is the final list. The second sheet is our allowed middle names. Third sheet is the same list sorted in different ways. Sort order from left to right: J, M, A, Sigma, then A+. The orange highlight shows the top 5 allowed names from each list.

A description of the columns:
Name - self-explanatory
Rank - What rank the name had in the 2004 census (how popular the name was). Data pulled from the NameVoyager
J - Jonathan's ranking scale of 1-10
M - Michel's ranking
~ - The difference between J and M
Sigma - J + M
A - Abigail's ranking
A+ - A + J + M

How we used them:
Rank - if it was in the top 100, an automatic exclusion. We don't want popular names. Abigail wasn't that popular at the time. 1000 entered if the name wasn't on the list.
J - largely discounted
M - The primary reference (joke!)
~ - just something neato to show us how different our opinions on a name were
Sigma - the smaller the number, the better the two of us like a name, combined
A - added later in the game to see how it would affect things
A+ - same

In case you were wondering, most of this excel stuff was my idea.