How you doin'?
The other night I was finalizing the list of names for both boys and girls that Tina and I liked. In total we had about 100 names chosen as potentials. After some conversations with a few friends and relatives, and with each other, we got the list down to about 67. We still have a lot of work to do to get down to the top five.
In searching for these names, I read through about 55,000 names... it took me about a month. The process was particularly difficult because so many names are already taken between the two families. For a while I was getting desperate, thinking that "Turnip" or "Datsun" might have to be considered as finalist names for the baby. However, after some digging through the Internet, we found some names that were unique but not overly complicated.
While we aren't even close to a final list, Tina and I probably wouldn't tell anyone what the names were anyway. We want that to be a surprise. It'll probably be a surprise for us!
I did compile a list of rejected names, so I'll list those instead...
BOYS
Edward
Colin
Jared
Ramone
Armond
Felipe
Bradley
GIRLS
Madison
Giselle
Jocelyn
Ashley
Mila
Caressa
Christa
Cristalin
Dulcinea
Eurydice
Florisel
Sabrina
Sasha
Mistral
Carraway
Isis
Lomasi
Marissia
Natalia
Adalia
Lorelei
Kaylan
Darian
Geneveve
Miranda
Callista
As you can see, we have a lot more girl names than boys, probably because boys dominate both families and have used up all the names already. I have some advice for future parents in the family...copyright the names you might want now, because they might be taken up soon in the future.
Update on Tina. She's healthy and sleeps a lot. Oh, and remember how I wrote before that saucy things disgust her now? Well, I made this amazing Chipotle BBQ sauce and she loved it on the baby back ribs I made the other night. So that's one point for the sauces.
I'm hoping to get some pictures up of Tina soon, just need to develop the film. No stomach shots though. I love all of you but I do value my own life, and putting up belly pictures would put my life in serious jeapardy.
1/17/06
FYI...
Just wanted to let everyone know that unless otherwise told, I'm using home E-mail address to send correspondences, rather than work because I don't want anyone to get busted.
1/16/06
Hello!
Well here it is, the baby blog for our baby. Since this is a public blog, here's a few things non-family will want to know. I'm Adam, and Tina is the one pregnant. Good, now that we've gotten that out of the way its on to more important things.
First, Tina is 16 weeks pregnant...I think. I'm terrible with the numbers involved with pregnancy, and I don't have one of those handy wheel things that all the doctors have. 16 weeks though, that's pretty close and I'll be sure to verify later with Tina. It has been a pretty normal pregnancy thus far, no surprises or worries and the doctors say she's right on track. Hooray for us!
For those of you who like lists I've rounded up the top changes I've noticed about Tina since she's been pregnant.
1. New drink of choice - Shirley Temple
2. Number of times she threw up during the first three months - Three
3. Number of times she's thrown up since then - Zero
4. Cravings - Nachos
5. Foods she once thought tolerable, but disgust her now - Chicken (God forbid she walk in on me while I'm butchering one up!), and sauces.
6. Trips to the bathroom have increased by 50%.
7. Her driving habits have gone from aggressive New Yorker to protective mama.
8. Burping is always the baby's fault, never her own.
9. Her belly is larger and firmer, while mine has only gotten larger... not firmer.
10. When she wants to snack on something its not because she's hungry, its because the baby is.
Okay, I just talked to Tina, and she said we're about 18 weeks, not 16. See, I'm terrible with numbers.
Okay, so that's a gist of what's been happening the last several months. Now for some sonogram pictures. Look for the crosshairs, the find the baby. Oh and in the last picture, the baby was being really stubborn and kept moving so all they got was a shot of its head, arm and hand.
Its very hard to see the baby in the first two photos, but he or she is there. In a couple weeks we have another sonogram appointment and the baby will be considerably bigger. I'll hopefully have a good shot then.
First, Tina is 16 weeks pregnant...I think. I'm terrible with the numbers involved with pregnancy, and I don't have one of those handy wheel things that all the doctors have. 16 weeks though, that's pretty close and I'll be sure to verify later with Tina. It has been a pretty normal pregnancy thus far, no surprises or worries and the doctors say she's right on track. Hooray for us!
For those of you who like lists I've rounded up the top changes I've noticed about Tina since she's been pregnant.
1. New drink of choice - Shirley Temple
2. Number of times she threw up during the first three months - Three
3. Number of times she's thrown up since then - Zero
4. Cravings - Nachos
5. Foods she once thought tolerable, but disgust her now - Chicken (God forbid she walk in on me while I'm butchering one up!), and sauces.
6. Trips to the bathroom have increased by 50%.
7. Her driving habits have gone from aggressive New Yorker to protective mama.
8. Burping is always the baby's fault, never her own.
9. Her belly is larger and firmer, while mine has only gotten larger... not firmer.
10. When she wants to snack on something its not because she's hungry, its because the baby is.
Okay, I just talked to Tina, and she said we're about 18 weeks, not 16. See, I'm terrible with numbers.
Okay, so that's a gist of what's been happening the last several months. Now for some sonogram pictures. Look for the crosshairs, the find the baby. Oh and in the last picture, the baby was being really stubborn and kept moving so all they got was a shot of its head, arm and hand.
Its very hard to see the baby in the first two photos, but he or she is there. In a couple weeks we have another sonogram appointment and the baby will be considerably bigger. I'll hopefully have a good shot then.
