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Mild forms of insanity.
Sep. 8th, 2004 11:13 pmWe are auditioning fetal nicknames. The Littlest Llama, the nanopig, and Little Bean are hard acts to follow.
Rivlet was tried on, but dismissed as not quite cute enough. Michael vetoed Puppy, perhaps because he thought it would lead to confusion about what, exactly, we were expecting. I liked Demon Seedling, but worried that there would be too many circumstances in which its use would be inappropriate.
"How about Li'l Critter?" I asked
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"Like the Mercer Meyer books?" Michael asked.
"No, the Mercer Meyer character is Li'l Monster. Hey, how about Li'l Monster?"
"We could describe the baby as Monsteriffic," Michael pointed out. I was sold.
It turns out that Mercer Meyer has a character named Little Critter (he's the hairy one) and a character named Little Monster. So now we're auditioning both names.
We have also divided up the all-important pregnancy task of worrying. It's my responsibility to worry that the baby will have three heads. It's Michael's job to worry that the baby will have horns and a tail and be irredeemably evil. We are going to do our best to worry about these two potential problems to the exclusion of all others.
We've already figured out that both problems would require substantial alterations to baby clothes. Either way, the baby would go through an awful lot of hats.
Rivlet was tried on, but dismissed as not quite cute enough. Michael vetoed Puppy, perhaps because he thought it would lead to confusion about what, exactly, we were expecting. I liked Demon Seedling, but worried that there would be too many circumstances in which its use would be inappropriate.
"How about Li'l Critter?" I asked
.
"Like the Mercer Meyer books?" Michael asked.
"No, the Mercer Meyer character is Li'l Monster. Hey, how about Li'l Monster?"
"We could describe the baby as Monsteriffic," Michael pointed out. I was sold.
It turns out that Mercer Meyer has a character named Little Critter (he's the hairy one) and a character named Little Monster. So now we're auditioning both names.
We have also divided up the all-important pregnancy task of worrying. It's my responsibility to worry that the baby will have three heads. It's Michael's job to worry that the baby will have horns and a tail and be irredeemably evil. We are going to do our best to worry about these two potential problems to the exclusion of all others.
We've already figured out that both problems would require substantial alterations to baby clothes. Either way, the baby would go through an awful lot of hats.
