We spent Canadian thanksgiving in Calgary this year, surrounded by our families. We had two wonderful dinners with tasty fare and desserts. My parents graciously welcomed us into their home to stay. A highlight was playing Rockband: The Beatles with Dylan and my Dad. I consider the Beatles the greatest band of all time, so it is fun to enjoy their music. The animation and illustrations bring the music to life and remind me of the Cirque de Soleil performance I saw in Las Vegas two years ago. I highly reccomend playing the game especially with a baby boomer. I also really enjoyed attending church and the lessons were interesting and inspiring.
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My thoughts on naming a child
Everyone wants to know what we are naming our baby girl. I’ve always been reluctant to really tell anyone what we are naming our children until they are born. Mainly because I’m not really interested in anyone’s opinion on the matter, particularly defending the choice. I don’t mind hearing what names people like in general but I really don’t like hearing the unsolicited phrase “You should name her…” Because Daria and I are going to name her and not anyone else. It’s a basic parental right, if I’m lost I’ll ask for help (who knows I might just need it!). We do have a list. Now we just have to shorten it. This all probably sounds harsh but it is actually just a part of my other policy on names that of claiming and sharing names. I’ll sum it up: Don’t tell me what you plan to or might name your kids unless you don’t mind me using the name too, cuz I just might. I’m happy to hear what names you love but it’s not like calling shotgun (which I do support btw). I love talking names but it’s terrible talking names when your pregnant or want to be pregnant or anyone involved in the conversation falls in the same category. It tends to get emotionally charged. So for now she shall remain nameless!
We are having a girl!
Due to a new policy at our local radiology clinic and a very miserable radiologist tech we were unable to find out the sex of our baby. Unfortunately I had to miss the ultrasound or I would have just interpreted it myself. So instead we decided to get a private ultrasound done on our vacation in Palm Springs. What a nice place too! They projected the ultrasound on a huge theater style screen and had huge comfy couches for our whole family to sit on. The tech was fun and personable. She went hunting for the sex right away and told us that we were having our first girl! Then we got to see precious 4D footage of her moving and yawning and her cute little body and face.
Wow. I’m incredibly excited and just love telling everyone. The more people I tell the more real it feels because at this point I can’t even imagine what having a little girl is like. I’m really interested to see how it changes the dynamics in our family. I’m curious to feel what it’s like to love a little girl and be her dad with all the spectrum of emotions. I love my boys so much its hard to imagine anything different. Maybe it will be the same? I’m sure it will be different. Perhaps I’ll be insufferably doting! The exciting part is all of my siblings are also having children right now, so we will have 4 cousins all within a year of one another. Crazy and wonderful!
G.I. JOE
My ever thoughtful mom bought me a G.I. JOE t-shirt today. I love it. Apparently they’ve also released the old cartoon seasons on dvd this week. Eager to watch those again and see if it really was as good as I idolized it to be. I’m a little nervous for the movie release this summer as they’ve introduced a strange twist by giving all the characters acceleration suits. Was the original cartoon of ninja’s, military, masked men, chameleon skinned men and women not rich enough already?
iPhone 3GS
Got a new white iPhone 3GS 32GB today. It’s very peppy. Now I’m in the process of updating to 3.01 then backing up and restoring my 3G transferring that to the 3GS then moving Daria onto the 3G then unlocking her iPhone 2G for spare usage at this point. Ah the joy and the pain of new iPhone hardware.
