A Little News from Aaron

Ferretlover · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:52 am Post subject: Re: A Little News from Aaron

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Aaron · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 12:02 pm Post subject: Re: A Little News from Aaron

It's gonna be a boy... I feel quite certain.

Genetics determines.
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Pops · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 2:45 pm Post subject: Re: A Little News from Aaron

Mickey Maloney ducked his head when a bucket of whiskey flew at him
It missed, and falling on the bed, the liquor scattered over Tim
Bedad he revives, see how he rises, Timothy rising from the bed
Saying "Whittle your whiskey around like blazes, t'underin' Jaysus, do ye think I'm dead?

Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner around the flure yer trotters shake
Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake

-- Finnegans Wake
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Aaron · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 8:44 pm Post subject: Re: A Little News from Aaron

Shannymara · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 10:38 pm Post subject: Re: A Little News from Aaron

My 2 year old nephew is named Finnegan (goes by Finn). It's a name that's just at the beginning of a resurgence in popularity.
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BigTex · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:32 pm Post subject: Re: A Little News from Aaron

Congratulations.

That's an amazing time in your life (even if you're old when it happens).

I've been through it several times and it's awesome.

Kids are so much fun. They'll drive you nuts and spend all your money but they keep you in the moment and make you realize that you did exactly the same thing to your parents.

It's good. You will soon look back and it will be inconceivable to think about the world without your little one in it.

A few comments on names. These are just my guidelines, but I feel strongly about them. Take what you find useful and leave the rest:

1. Name it what you are going to call it. I never saw the point in calling a baby James if you were going to call him Jimmy, or Katherine if you were going to call her Kathy.

2. Call it by its first name. I go by my middle name and I would like to have all the time back in my life that I have spent correcting people who call me by my first name.

3. Don't take a traditional name and spell it all screwy. That just guarantees the kid is going to spend his/her whole life spelling it out for people.

4. Ideally, pick a name that cannot be shortened. This makes it simpler all the way around.

5. Pick a name that only has one spelling. This will keep the kid from having to spell it out every time he/she tells someone his/her name.

6. Try not to pick a first name that ends with the first letter of the last name. No need for a tongue twister if it can be avoided.

7. Don't name the kid a name that is going to be common to two or more other kids in every class they have throughout school. A name is to identify, and if all it does is narrow it down to three kids out of twenty, it has not succeeded completely in its objective.

These guidelines may help you narrow down a long list of names into a shorter list. We have more or less followed these rules in naming our kids and I am pleased with the results. There aren't too many kids with our kids' names, they are easy to spell and we call them their actual full names.

But off the name soap box, congratulations again.

It's just an amazing experience.

At the VERY MINIMUM, chasing a little one around will improve your agility and reflexes, and this may come in very handy if you find yourself in post peak oil hand to hand zombie combat situation.

Oh yeah, to borrow from my emoticon novella in another thread, some days you will feel like this:

male

And other days you will feel like this:

XXbazooka

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uNkNowN ElEmEnt · Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:39 am Post subject: Re: A Little News from Aaron

Congrats! I hope its healthy and happy and the lady delivers as well as can be expected.

wisconsin_cur · Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:41 am Post subject: Re: A Little News from Aaron

Let me add to the chorus, congratulations.

We are expecting our next in November.

Aaron · Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:21 am Post subject: Re: A Little News from Aaron

wisconsin_cur · Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:42 am Post subject: Re: A Little News from Aaron

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Aaron · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 4:01 pm Post subject: Re: A Little News from Aaron

The latest Pics

http://picasaweb.google.com/AaronEDunlap/BabyPics
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Aaron · Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:39 pm Post subject: Re: A Little News from Aaron

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