I'll admit, I've never had an appreciation for parents who wait "to meet" their child before figuring out the kid's name.
I've also had less than charitable thoughts about those parents so convinced they were having a boy that they didn't have a girl's name for back up, or vice versa. Just in case. Especially if the only thing confirming the baby's gender was some kind of wedding-ring-dangled-over-a-belly trick and not, you know, a DNA sample or an ultrasound.
Of course, all my judginess has come back to bite me. I'm hours/days/a couple of weeks (?) away from giving birth for a third time. And if it's a boy (we don't know, but apparently I'm "carrying low"), we're totally screwed.
I thought we had it all figured out until last night and, indeed, if it's a girl, we're set. But I had been wavering on our chosen boy middle name and thought I'd go over it one last time with the husband. I rattled off the name.
"Sure, it's fine," my husband said.
"Fine? The middle name ... or the first name?" I asked.
"Both. They're both OK," he said.
Just OK?
"They're OK," he repeated."The names are fiiiiiine."
My husband is content with giving his son an "OK" name, a "fine" name?
"But you picked that name ... and now you're just fine with it?" I accused/clarified. "Is 'fine' good enough for our son?"
"Sure."
Sure?
We hunkered down at his laptop and started the search, again. Hadn't we already done this months ago?
In hour two of the frantic search, I made the unfortunate mistake of suggesting we draw from his Polish heritage. Maybe we'd get some better-than-fine ideas.
So we Googled a Polish baby names site. Suddenly, he's doing that kind of jazz hands/name-in-lights gesture saying, "Vlodek! We'll name him Vlodek!"
On second thought, "fine" is good enough for me. Or what the hell: let's wait to meet the baby. Because surely you don't look at a newborn and think, "Vlodek, my son, my beautiful baby Vlodek."
Right?
Were you a last-minute baby namer? (Got any leftovers?) And what's the deal with naming the third child? The first two were sooooo easy!
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