“But no one will call him by the full name. They’ll call him Murph McCarthy.”
“I like that.”
“Okay, we’ll put that one first in the final column.”
“One down, three to go,” Abby said. “What’s your top pick?”
“Rory. I like that a lot.”
“Me, too. Put it in the number two spot.”
“Two down.”
“Your turn to pick,” Adam said.
“Cormac,” she said.
“I dig it, but…”
“What?”
“Will people call him Mac?”
Abby groaned. “Probably, and we cannot have that.”
“No, we can’t. So what’s your second choice?”
“My other grandmother’s maiden name was Crosby. What do you think of that?”
“Crosby. What would people call him?”
“Um, Crosby?”
“But there’s no nickname.”
“Cros?”
He made a face that indicated what he thought of that. “I don’t love the nickname, but I do love the connection to your grandmother. Any other family names we could draw from?”
“My mother’s mother was a Kane.”
“With a C or a K?”
“K.”
“I like that. Kane Callahan McCarthy.”
“Do we have a winner?” she asked hopefully.
“I think we do.”
“Yes!”
“Your turn to pick the last one. What’s it going to be?”
Adam studied the list thoughtfully. “I’m going with… Beckett.”
“Beckett Callahan McCarthy. Will we call him Beck?”
