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Originally posted by SmallBladder:
ok--sorry to have you all in suspense. Hopefully,this will prove to be enlightening as to the baby's gender.

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Man, I am just thinking how great it would be if you saved that picture (complete with arrow and text) and put it in with his baby pictures. How would that be 20 or so years down the road? Can you imagine the embarrassment as his fiancee flips through the family photo album only to find
"PENIS ---->"
and mom leans over, pats her arm and says, "Oh, he wasn't even born yet. I changed his diapers and can tell you it's filled out just fine. I'll be willing to make you another sign, though if you need it, dear."

Sad part is, that reminds me of real life. My brother-in-law took a photo of my nephew when he was just a few days old, on the scale. My B-I-L was standing at my nephews's feet taking a "full body shot." My nephew decides at that point to lift his leg so the photo is like "WHAM! TESTES!" right in your face. Of course, being absentminded scientist types, they e-mailed it to EVERYONE. It's still in the album with all his baby photos. When I opened it up, I called everyone at work over and said: "My sister's baby's a boy--and WHAT a boy!!!"

I just know that picture will come back to haunt him. My sister won't let me exert the proper influence over him, either. He'll be embarrassed by it. See, if I could help raise him from the age of 3 to the age of 8 then I could guarantee that when he's 16 and that photo comes out when his first girlfriend comes to dinner rather than wanting to crawl under a rock and die, the boy will have the strength of character to meet the shame head on and say, "Hey, if I was that hung when I was three days old, you can just imagine what I'm packing now."

You are a riot. Your kid is damn lucky to have a cool mama like you!

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Originally posted by Epicurus:

I just know that picture will come back to haunt him. My sister won't let me exert the proper influence over him, either. He'll be embarrassed by it. See, if I could help raise him from the age of 3 to the age of 8 then I could guarantee that when he's 16 and that photo comes out when his first girlfriend comes to dinner rather than wanting to crawl under a rock and die, the boy will have the strength of character to meet the shame head on and say, "Hey, if I was that hung when I was three days old, you can just imagine what I'm packing now."

Wouldn't THAT teach my sister and her husband for taking such an indelicate picture!

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LOLOLOL I hope the kid has the cajones (pun intended) to say it!

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Originally posted by giamaria:
LOLOLOL I hope the kid has the cajones (pun intended) to say it!

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That's what I like about you, Giamaria. You're always on the ball.

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Originally posted by NoNameAvailable:
his last name begins with an 'S' and originaly he wanted to name the child Andrew Steven. i refused, being that his initials would have been A.S.S.! as if elementry school isn't hard enough!

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Haha..my mom's friends used to tease her before she married my dad that she was going to marry someone with an "S' last name & her intials would be ASS. Luckily she ended up with ASH. Her maiden name made it ASK. How funny.

Please help me widdle down names for my baby-to-be, if you have a minute. If you really don't like my selection, please do not tell me because I am really hormonal and will most likely cry and throw something random at my moniter.
Here's my thoughts:

Ione
Jade
Layla (I like the song, allright!)
Jasmine

I already know the middle name:
Blue

And I haven't thought of boys names because it's not a boy. I'm practically a feminazi, there's no way I could produce a boy!

Thank you for your time and input,
Melissa *Named after the Allman Brothers song, so you see where I am coming from*

I like Layla--the song and the name. I wouldn't go with "Jade Blue', however--too many colors. But I like all the other choices.

Personally, I really want to name my daughter Josephine. It's old fashioned, but I think it's a power name with just enough sex appeal. My dear grandmother's name was Mary, and I really like that one, too. So I'll need at least two daughters.

My mother really wanted to name me Elizabeth, and I'm so glad my father changed her mind... it just wouldn't have suited me. Plus, my name is in a million songs... makes me feel special every time. Good Golly.

If I had been a boy, my father would have been gung-ho about naming me Wolf.

names for girls: Saffron (especially with the middle name "Jane" because she'd sound like a heroine from the wild west), Sabine, Simone, Maria, Ruth, Annie, Athena, Frances.

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Originally posted by yeefan:
originally posted by PennyLane in another topic:
Here's my thoughts:

Ione
Jade
Layla (I like the song, allright!)
Jasmine

And I haven't thought of boys names because it's not a boy. I'm practically a feminazi, there's no way I could produce a boy!

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Your name choices are VERY cute. I know a girl named Jasmine, and people call her "Jaz", which I love. Oh, yes, girl, you absolutely could have a boy. It happened to me. Twice. Start thinkin'. Also, a cautionary word: it's hard to name your first one, because usually you have limited exposure to other kids, so it is very easy to give them a common name. I'm happy to tell you your choices seem non-ordinary. My kids are named: Calvin and Edmund.

You may want to avoid Ione - now perhaps I'm pronouncing it wrong, but when I was reading them aloud to myself, my first thought was:

Ione Blue - I own a blue...pickup truck.

Sorry, but true.

I think I'm pretty set on what I would name a child. All the names I have in mind are fairly common, except for one (female) name, which I'm keeping secret I do like Williams and Johns, though, Josephenes and Marys

Though it's never there, checking those racks out sure can help you with the trends of names . . . Dave and I had fun looking at the empty slots -- Cody, Dylan, Austin, Ashley . .. basically, if we have kids, we're checking out the empty slots for the names we WONT name our kids.

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Originally posted by Joanna:
Nyssa (can you believe it?)

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I like this name, but it reminds me of a name of a county in a David Eddings' series: Nyissa, which unfortunately is the land of a people who are way too snake happy...

Boy names
* Gehan
* Harrison (Both family names)
* Shane

I made a death-bed to my grandfather that I would grow up to be a good woman like my mom and grandma and name a baby after him. But, not the first name because I always hated it.

girls:
zoe, sophia, abigail or abby (our iguana's name), ana, isabella, olivia, charlotte

boys:
oliver, liam, zak

i'm sure that there are more, i just can't seem to think of them

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Originally posted by Riah:
So, any ideas for first names to go with Rex?

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So this guy in my office just had a kid and he named her Eloise. All of the gossipers in my office hate the name but I think its kind of cute because it is distinctive. And, its a name that a lot of good nicknames could come out of. So, I ask you this...what are some of the names you think you would like to name your kids, when you get to that stage (if you aren't already there )

I like
Stephanie (Stephie)
Ty (my SO's name is Todd, he dad, Ted, his grandpa Theo - I think you can see the pattern)
Schuyler
Charlotte (Shaw for short)
Ben
Seaton

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Oooohhh, I like this one!

I actually quite like the name Eloise, much for the reasons you mentioned.

Even I'm a good couple of years off having kids (gotta get that Masters thesis done well before I even start thinking about babies!), some friends and I were talking about this... I love names that you can shorten to nicknames, probably because it is almost impossible to shorten my name!

So, for boys, I love:
Jackson (Jack)
Elliot (although I think I'd be compelled to dress him in a red hooded sweatshirt and call him "Ellllll-eeee-ut" :-)
Raymond (Ray) - but it's my dad's name, so it didn't require a stroke of creative genius

For girls:
Lily
Jessica - I don't necessarily love this, but I do love Jessie
Josephine (Joey or Josie) - I also like Josefina

I'm sure when the time comes, I'll completely change my mind though!

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Originally posted by Bjerica:
My favourite is Ava Elizabeth.

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That's weird, I had that very name picked out a while back. It has moved further down my list though over the years.

Girls:
Ursula Olive
Franka Elle
Lola Felina

Boys (the middle name will be Atticus, no matter what):
Owen
Elliot
Miles
Crispin
Everett

I like Maya Graciela (Gracie or Ella for short) and Nora Jocelyn (Josie for short) for girls, and Joaquin David for a boy. Can Jack be a nickname for Joaquin? I think so. R's family is hispanic, so I'm pumping him for more exotic names.

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Originally posted by kena:
Strangely enough, any grade school teacher here in Quebec will tell you that French speaking kids with an English first-name are more likely to be problem kids. I didn't believe this until I saw my mom's student's list (she works with kids with learning disabilities) They were all named Kevin, Michael, Jessica, Jennifer... while the "normal" list had the usual proportion of French/English/Ethnical names.

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...trying to figure out what possible correlation there could be for that...

The name she had decided upon? "Shakira Charlize."