Boys + Names?

A mother's intuition is supposedly a very powerful thing. So powerful, I had already planned possible names for the little girl inside me. Finally,  I could buy one of those damn pair of "jeggings" for my kid (for those not in the baby loop think skinny jeans for baby perfectly paired with pink baby uggs of course). I mean clearly, this pregnancy was different. I was feeling great and I am still downing my cup of coffee a day which thanks to morning sickness, was impossible with Levi. My OB of course told me she was also 75% sure I was having a girl..until.....

Note: Not OUR baby- what parent posts this online? Well, I thank them because this is exactly what our picture looked like

The baby opened HIS legs and we saw something, something that was not to be mistaken. " Are you sure it's not the cord?" No, she says..I can see there is no blood flow on the ultrasound. Silence. This, of course, is after the OB is giving me a lecture how great girls are because "they can talk." Okay so boys are great and this will be better for Levi, but the thought of 2 boys 19 months apart makes my brain tired. There will be fighting, yelling, tears, and dirt. But I do have to say I would take this anyday over 2 teenage girls 19 months apart..our future cell phone bill thanks us.

Then of course comes the challenge of names. Lawrence and I sort of dug ourselves in a hole by giving Levi a L name. Of course my little girl would have been Lily but the L boys name is more challenging. How about Luke? Love it but it's a super Christian name and let's face it we aren't Jews for Jesus. Liam is another nice name..but we call Levi "Leaves" for short and would probably end up calling Liam "Leems" or something. This will mess will their heads don't you think? Lawrence and I decided one night we like the name Toby James (TJ) for the baby. I of course go straight to my information Bible (aka GOOGLE) and type in "baby name Toby" and people are writing in right and left saying it sounds like a dog's name. So we have gotten nowhere. The question is will our kid resent us for life if we don't give him an L name too?  Should we just do a L name? What do you think? Anybody have other good male L names? Remember that a bad name dooms children for life..so no pressure.


Okay why not throw in some bonus cuteness to this rant-y post. I am at the lake here people. I now walk around and grab my head and say "head" when not asked and I point to my foot and say "oot". I go to yoga now and do a killer downward dog and stick my hand between my legs and wave hi to the people behind me while in the position.What can you do?

that crazy "MOMster" lady attacking me again: