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Sep. 11th, 2004 10:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivka1. Words cannot express how sleepy I've been in the last few days. Thursday, I fell asleep three times in my office. Quiet room, closed door, *bam!* Asleep. Today I took a nap shortly after breakfast, even though my in-laws are visiting. It was slightly embarrassing.
2. There will not be an exciting moment when my previously-flat stomach suddenly develops a pregnancy bump, because I've had a belly for years. But I noticed today that my belly feels much firmer, especially right in the center.
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curiousangel says he can feel it too."This sounds so weird, but I think I can feel my uterus," I told my mother on the phone. She was unshocked. "You probably can."
Holy cow.
3. I really, really, really need to stop reading stories that mention fetal death. I blogged about the outraged part of my reaction, but not the part where I sat at my computer and cried.
4. I saw
misia and perigee when we went out to breakfast with my in-laws. misia immediately commented on my enormous rack, thus demonstrating that I am not exaggerating the whole zeppelin-tits phenomenon. She also told me she's going to make an afghan for the Li'l Critter and showed me the pattern, yay! 5. We spent quite a bit of time discussing possible baby names with my in-laws today (Rachel/Emily/Genevieve/Alexandra, Alexander/Ryan) without, somehow, either of us happening to mention that we intend to give the Li'l Critter my last name. Maybe it will never, ever come up in conversation, and we won't have to tell them. Do you think?
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Date: 2004-09-11 08:03 pm (UTC)ahem.
just so you know.
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Date: 2004-09-11 08:27 pm (UTC)Maybe your mother better not meet a couple I know, where the boy has the father's last name (Eskew) and the two girls have the mother's last name (Langley).
This is not a blended family. All three children have the same two parents. They just don't have the same surnames, because their parents decided to do it that way.
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Date: 2004-09-11 08:55 pm (UTC)<crosses off afghan>
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Date: 2004-09-11 09:15 pm (UTC)Hats would be an excellent alternative, especially in slightly-larger sizes. Li'l Critter's due in April, which means that we're likely to mostly get summer clothes as gifts and to be casting about for warmer things when 6 months comes along.
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Date: 2004-09-16 07:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-11 09:18 pm (UTC)My only concern about Alexandra is that it carries overtones of "we really wanted a boy." My only concern about Genevieve, which is a lovely name, is that its nickname forms are so common. My only concern about Emily is that it's the number one baby name for girls. We might wind up going with Rachel for a girl just because it poses the fewest problems.
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Date: 2004-09-11 09:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-12 07:22 am (UTC)*peers*
Did you go to CWRU? (well, CASE now. whatever.)
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Date: 2004-09-12 10:00 pm (UTC)Norton Fall 92, Cutler Spring 93-Spring 95, Clarke Fall 95-Spring 96, then off campus. Sound familiar?
(Sorry,
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Date: 2004-09-12 05:38 am (UTC)Just as a footnote, "Rachel Wald" sounds almost as Jewish as "Rivka Wald," so another generation can have fun confusing people.
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Date: 2004-09-19 04:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-12 06:49 am (UTC)I don't think Alexandra carries those overtones, and it does have the advantage of easily shortening to one syllable for nicknames.
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Date: 2004-09-12 06:28 pm (UTC)Where's a linguist when I need one;-) ?
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Date: 2004-09-13 06:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-13 07:07 am (UTC)At a music festival in a ghost town, as I understand.
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Date: 2004-09-12 09:27 am (UTC)Nonsense, and I'm speaking with inside knowledge. (My second name, which I don't use.) It's a fine name with a long tradition.
I _do_ think that giving a kid (or otterling, in your case) two names has advantages - more than two can get akward, but two at least gives them a choice.
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Date: 2004-09-11 11:36 pm (UTC)Were we to procreate, I'd probably go ahead and change my last name legally to Mactavish and give it that name, as neither Grimm nor Smith appeals to either of us as a kid's last name.
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Date: 2004-09-12 06:04 am (UTC)I don't think Alexandra says "we wanted a boy" I think it sounds very distinguished. It also sounds terrific as a first name with either Emily or Rachel as a middle name. ARW makes a slightly better monogram, which would also do for Alexander Ryan, if things inside you right now are rolling those hormones that way.
Genevieve is nice, but hard to spell, and the G=J gives the kid a built in disadvantage when it comes to starting to learn letters.
As for avoiding stuff like that, I think you owe it to yourself to go out of your way to avoid them. Also, though this should be easy, don't read British tabloids. I never have, but I've never forgiven Ken's mother for showing me a gruesome Siamese Twins photo she found in The Sun when I was pregnant.
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Date: 2004-09-12 06:12 am (UTC)I think it won't come up in conversation for years, not until one of them stumbles on an official form. Why would it?
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Date: 2004-09-12 07:47 am (UTC)"Grandma, you wrote my name wrong again! MY name is Alexandra Murgatroyd Wald, not Miss Allie whatever-surname!"
"Don't call me Grandma, dear, I'm much too young to be a grandma. Call me Aunt Becky / Nana / Miss Becky. And of course your name is Allie whatever-surname."
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Date: 2004-09-12 07:51 am (UTC)B
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Date: 2004-09-13 07:13 am (UTC)Heh. Good call. In fact, she does want to be called Nana. Michael's father wants to be called Poppy. My parents, always the traditionalists, will be Grandma and Grandpa. We still need to find out what Michael's birthmother wants to be called, but it looks like we might have a complete non-overlapping set.
I grew up calling both my grandmothers "Grandma" and both my grandfathers "Grandpa," so all of this with the choices and the extra names seems a little exotic to me. When we needed to distinguish one grandmother from the other, we used last names (e.g., "Grandma Wald").
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Date: 2004-09-12 05:20 pm (UTC)You radical bra-burner you
Date: 2004-09-12 06:48 pm (UTC)I actually really like the idea of splitting the surnames by apparent gender.
Not that we bothered -- I have a brother, he can worry about the family name.
My parents think that our choices (Carolyn and Jonathan(Jack)) are bit long to go with a three-syllable last name, but other than that, have no quibbles. If it comes to that, Sebastian's pretty long, too, and we get along.
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Date: 2004-09-12 07:30 pm (UTC)I slept in a bra last night, and it was unbelievable how much more comfortable I was. I may be bra-wearing for the duration, now.
I like your name choices.
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Date: 2004-09-12 06:48 pm (UTC)As someone who grew up with a challenged name (in fact, one of the things that I jokingly grumble about in the process of getting married is the name thing) why add that challenge to a child's life? What benefit does it provide?
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Date: 2004-09-16 07:59 am (UTC)Having said that, Linnea has Rob's surname, largely because of my MIL's horror when she realised I wasn't changing my name upon marriage. Givena British surname, we chose the other two names for Irish and Swedishness, and then put them in order of "Easy to spell, pronounce and abbreviate" - so Linnea came first. Then Niamh. A boy would have been Donal Evald. And I'm not attached to my surname.
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Date: 2004-09-19 08:03 am (UTC)I don't much like Alexandra because I always hear it as the place name or "we wanted a boy". But Alexa is a good name (and I liked it even before having a partner called Alexa!). Probably not Alexis though - at least to me that carries a reminder of the scary uber-bitch in Dynasty!
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Date: 2004-09-19 11:09 am (UTC)She was full-out in favor of "Alexandra" for a girl, which surprised me - I thought she'd want the baby's name to be more clearly differentiated from hers. Nope. She wants a namesake.