Tell Me YOU Wouldn't Name Your Child After THAT Body Part

Thursday morning we will be finding out the sex of JuJu 3.0. Our intentions are to keep it a secret between the three of us (four if you count BabyJuJu, but I'm not, call me crazy but I'm thinking that she couldn't care less)and the only foreseeable glitch on our plan will be to keep The Boy quiet. I was quizzing him one day in the car. I told him that we wanted to find out if the new baby would be a girl or a boy and then we'd like to keep it a secret. I asked if he thought that he would be able to keep just a huge important secret (of course he said he could) so I attempted to see just how strong he could be under pressure.

"Hi LittleJuJu, how are you today? I hear you're having a new little baby in your family! I'll give you this shiny new Batman coloring book if you tell me if it will be a girl or a b-...."

"IT'S A BOY! A BOY! GIMMIE GIMMIE GIMMIE! OHMYGOD I LOVE BATMAN!"

So you see we need to really think this "sharing" concept through a bit more. I'm getting excited to find out. I can think of many (manymanymany) reasons to hope for a boy and I can also think of many reasons to hope for a girl, so either way I think I will be pretty happy. We've been struggling with names. We've already gone through the two most perfect names that exist, so thinking of a third is proving difficult. I think we are almost sorta definite on a girl's name and pretty close with a boys. Yesterday LittleJuJu and I sat in the sun with a piece of tablet paper and wrote down some names that we really liked. I will share with you all of his choices. I'm not making any of these up, some are decent, some are just plain sad, but they are ALL names that he seriously thought we could name our next child. Ahem...

• Carlos
• Kemma
• Sue
• Steve
• Tommy
• Colon (pronounced KOHL-EN...just like that organ that stores your FECES)
• Christian
• Emily
• Amanda
• Chat
• Preston

Incidentally, we won't be choosing any of those for the baby, but I thought I might share them with you. Also, stay away from my son with your shiny bribing-type tools! He isn't going to crack!

Comments

[Melissa]

Watch him tell the first person that asks, that he will tell them for a new game boy or something.

I don't know, I kinda like the name Chat. ;)

[Amanda]

I am a little partial to Amanda myself :)

[Pamalamadingdong]

Christian is my hubby's name. Though most people assume it's Christopher

[Tammy]

I really like the name Preston! Would you rather have a boy or a girl? Hubbies choice?

[Mom]

I really hope it's a boy so I won't be disappointed that you didn't name the girl Hadley Jane.

But you know anything at all will be just fine with me... As long as I can babysit! I promise, cross my heart, not to bribe The Boy. Everyone here as witnesses.

[Dana]

What's riding on the bet of who tells first?

[Shann]

If you use the middle name of Cal, Kemma would be an interesting name...

Of course, if you want to go a bit Irish, Shannon is nice...

[Shann]

PS. I empathize with the name struggle. I was actually in the middle of the pushing phase of labour before Mark and I agreed on "Ty"...

[Chris]

I think your inclination to stay away from Colon is a good one. Kids can be vicious and that would be a playground favorite.