Baby names
We are looking at potential names for the baby now that it kind of seems as if it might come out one day. Big girl daughter was a bit miffed that I returned from the hospital on Monday with no baby. She doesn't quite get the scan thing and was all ready to be shunted up the line of my affections. She is looking on the impending birth as both exciting and potentially troubling, though I keep trying to reassure her. My partner is always hot on names and I prefer to leave it till the last minute once the baby is actually here.
This time round he actually has some sensible suggestions. With our first daughter he had the entire Dutch football team lined up. Luckily, she was a girl. With the second, he wanted something like Constanza, which sounded like some throwback to a bygone era to me. With the third, we spent days looking for a suitable Basque name [he was born in the Basque region] before settling for a totally different name.
This time round he has fixed on Gael and Cormac or something that sounds like Acier. I can live with the first, not sure about the second and I will have to work on the third. My mum is worried people at school will call the baby Gail, but he will just have to stand up for himself. In the meantime, the neighbour, who is upset about the cat's death, suggested we name the baby after the cat, but as his name was Oblivious that might cause problems. Still, could be a middle name...
Meanwhile, I am getting a lot of comments about how pleased I must be to finally be having a boy and even more so how pleased my partner must be. In fact, we don't care what sex the baby is and my partner rather likes the idea of a whole posse of girls. We also get a lot of knowing winks and statements along the lines of "you'll find out what boys are like. You'll never sit down. Not like girls". I'm not sure quite how to respond as they could equally have said that, for instance, rebel daughter was going to love pink and talk all day long. In fact, the really great and interesting thing about children is they all come out differently. Let's just wait and see.
Meanwhile, I am getting a lot of comments about how pleased I must be to finally be having a boy and even more so how pleased my partner must be. In fact, we don't care what sex the baby is and my partner rather likes the idea of a whole posse of girls. We also get a lot of knowing winks and statements along the lines of "you'll find out what boys are like. You'll never sit down. Not like girls". I'm not sure quite how to respond as they could equally have said that, for instance, rebel daughter was going to love pink and talk all day long. In fact, the really great and interesting thing about children is they all come out differently. Let's just wait and see.
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