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tonight, for fun, d and i are going to look through my huge list of names i like for our baby. i know it seems early but i think it is going to take a long time for us to decide. i could be wrong, though. i change my mind often and d thinks some of the names i like for a boy are too easy for other kids to pick on, so we’ll see what happens. he seems very interested in boys’ names, so it’ll be interesting to see which, if any, girls’ names he likes.
i wish i had known that something i can’t see or really feel yet could make me so happy and so worried and so…everything. it’s so many things that i can’t describe. i can’t wait to hold the baby. i love the feeling of a nice clean baby wearing a sleeper (one of those textured striped ones) in my arms.
and this one will be ours.
our baby. our child. our teenager. our adult.
strange.
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i think the key to picking a name is to make sure the whole name (including baby’s surname and middle name) run smoothly and sound right. i mean you don’t want to pick anything with dubious initial’s ie: Benjamin Ulrick Thomas Trebone (which is actually BUTT), and you also want to make sure that it is a name that will suit an adult as well as a child, that it’s not too *out there* …
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… (the lady in the birthing suite next to my best friend named her new son “Electricity” because she liked the nickname “Tricky” and she couldn’t think of anything better?????) I went to school with a child called Ian Peter Dailey (which is you abbreviate the first two names actually works out to be I.P Dailey – I pee daily!), so his nickname was “piddle” – poor kid! G’luck, it’s a task!
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