names

[metaphortunate]

Naming babies is hard though. Rocket spent several memorable hours as No-Ass McGee. (He has no ass. He is a tiny little frog baby, just like his big brother was. Now, of course, the Junebug is an enormous plump meaty toddler. When we change his underwear or diaper we silently marvel at dat ass. Was it really that small once? How many sausages have we fed this boy?) Rocket is also sometimes known as the Magneto Burrito because he spends a lot of time swaddled and squinting pouchily up at me over my boob, looking really unnervingly like a tiny Sir Ian McKellen.

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[veejane]

My sister had a last-minute crisis of names about a week before birth and ran most of the candidates past me for her second, the (arma)Dillo. [Cognomina for his ultrasound picture.] And I almost had him named Idris Evergreen Lastname! How did this not come to pass, I ask you!

(Ambrose was my second choice for middle name. It is dignified, I tell you!)

She settled on something firm and uncontroversial, and the least hapless family surname as a middle name. It is possible that my outlandish suggestions pushed her firmly out of any controversy. (However, I was also the euphony tester, resulting in no children named the equivalent of Bobby Lobby.)

Babies are great! Almost as great as not being pregnant any longer! Congratulations on both states of affairs!

[metaphortunate]

It is dignified. I like it. :)

Yes - not being pregnant is THE BEST.