I put my husband in charge of picking a middle name because he really wanted it to remind him of his mom. She passed unexpectedly 6 months after we got married and I barely knew her.

He finally decided on a middle name: Jackson Paine.

The namesake is after Thomas Paine, one of the US founding fathers and whose accomplishments and beliefs mirror that of my husband's mom.

We currently call him Jack Jack (or Ack Ack if you're my 3 yr old. 😂). I've been calling him Jackie.