Name Game

I've been asked about the name Kole Kenneth, and questions are sure to follow, so I thought I'd get that story out and straight.
First - it's not like Kathy and I had to have a K-name, but they started out as our first options and we just went from there.
Frankly, Kole is just a name that I've always liked and has stood out among K-names. In the Fletcher family, Kolton, Kade and Kallen have already been taken, while the top-100 names are littered with names like Caleb/Kaleb, Cameron/Kameron, Conner/Konner, Carter/Karter ... then there are the more traditional names like Kyle, Kevin, Kenneth, etc. And for the record - No, Keith Jr. was never an option.
I don't know - Kole was just a cool name, especially with the K-spelling, that fell through all the cracks and a lot of people aren't naming their kid right now, and I'm confident he won't be one of 10 Koles in a single classroom.
The only Cole/Kole I've heard used in popular culture recently was in the movie Mr. Holland's Opus, which was a great movie where Richard Dreyfuss received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor. In the movie, based on a true story, Dreyfuss' character has a son and names him Cole. I thought it was really cool - and was relieved when Kathy thought it was cool too.
By the time we were on our honeymoon in Maui, we had one of those half-hearted conversations, probably brought on by too many Mai Tais, and discussed our kids names. We left Maui with the knowledge that a boy would be Kole and a girl would be Karissa ... when, or if, a day came when we actually decided to have a child.
Kenneth as a middle name was rather easy - and I had no problem with it being the first name. Kenneth is the name of Kathy's father, who passed just before we met, in late December of 2003. If we did use it as the first name, and Kole as the middle, then he would be Kenneth Kole ... which, if you haven't gone shoe shopping in a while, let's just say that it would be like naming a kid Ralph Lauren or Vidal Sassoon.
So ... Kole Kenneth it is.