Why Callie?

All of our kids have a story behind their names and everyone is always really curious to hear it, even if the story is "we couldn't decided between two names so we had Facebook decided"-sorry Brooke. Callie's name is a little different. When she was making the switch she made it clear she did NOT want to be addressed as Noah, she wanted to be as far away from that name as possible because it was attached to her "boy life". We gave her the option of possibly naming herself something I would have loved as a kid, seriously if you gave me the option boy or girl I knew what it would be without any hesitation. She however didn't like this idea and asked us to name her. So one night Jason and I went without sleep, we looked at baby name books, we looked online, we thought of names from our childhood and shows we loved watching. Nothing seemed to pop out at us, then we realized we were only looking at names we really knew already. There's this family, The Bates, they have a show and are kind of like the Duggars except without any crazy sex scandals-to my knowledge-and their kids have some really awesome out there names. Their three youngest girls happen to have some of the prettiest names, Addellee, Ellie, and Callie. After saying all of them we decided Addellee was too close to my niece's name Addie and Ellie is pretty much my sister in law's name. We settled on Callie and even discussed changing the spelling because I knew a Callie who spelled her name differently and I really liked it the way she spelled it, but decided against it after realizing that if we did she would never find anything with her name on it. Before telling Callie that we picked her new name we did some research, I wasn't about to give my kid a name without knowing anything about it, plus if it had a really inappropriate meaning I wanted to change it! Luckily that wasn't the case, Callie which is a greek name means "most beautiful" we could not have picked a better name for this child, because that's exactly what she is and I want everyone else to know that too.