Today marks month seven of my pregnancy and to celebrate, the baby has been bounding about within me, using my bladder as her trampoline. As you might expect, it is difficult to reprimand her for this behavior so I am forced to add it to my list of things to punish her for when she is born. So far she will be grounded for the first year of her life. Also on the list of offenses: knocking me down with fatigue, making me sick for three months straight, forcing me to eat cheese for every meal and magnetically drawing the hands of strangers onto my belly. Why are strangers compelled to molest pregnant women? I have been brainstorming a way to deter this behavior but many of my solutions are a bit impractical, such as constructing a barb-wire fence around me, electrifying my low-rise support maternity pants, carrying a taser. It’s really too hot to have electric pants right now. I welcome other suggestions.
Dan and I have been getting a lot of inquiries about what we are going to name the baby. We thought we had a fail-proof method of selecting a name for her: we would each create our own list of possible names from our 100,000 baby name book and then compare lists…surely a few names would overlap, you say. You are wrong! There was quite a cacaphony of pencils scraping as we each scratched out each others carefully selected names. Dan suggested we attempt to pick a middle name, instead. Maybe her first name can be _____. All was not lost, however. There are a few survivors for when we decide we want to pay for therapy for all of her adult life:
Tusnelda
Macuilxochitl
Capaquiupanqui and
Tupaquiupanqui
As it is, we are still working on the name and once (if?) we choose one we will make sure she likes it before announcing it to the world.
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Congratulations if I haven't already said it. Your wit keeps me laughing. About someone touching your belly, just touch theirs back and see how it makes them feel. That's what I do.
Good luck on the name thing. That always brought many tears in the hospital. Then *poof* we finally pick one before we leave and it's perfect. Good luck again.
Wow...those are some...shall we say interesting names. How about Emma or Emily? Summer? Jade? Kristen, Aylea, Alexis, Alicia, Trinity, Angel, Celine, Sienna, or my personal favorite: Lorelei...he he he. Just thought I'd toss some names your way that sound pretty to me. Good luck!
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