With the first two children, we didn’t start discussing names until we learned the baby’s gender. We’re planning to wait (once again) to discuss names, but hopefully not as long as we waited with our little preemie Micah, who didn’t have a name until he was 3 days old, and we would have had to go to court to change his name if we waited any longer to think of one . . .
But Mara is already thinking about baby names!
We were talking about the baby one morning and Mara asked, “What’s gonna be its names?”
“We don’t know yet,” I told her. “We’ll have to think of one.”
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On an unrelated, yet semi-related, note . . .
I was sitting at the computer last week, when Mara came up to me, and in a most pedantic tone asked, “Can you say ‘MIX-ee-ah-WUNK-ee’?”
Not sure I heard correctly, I repeated: “Mix-ee-ah-wunk-ee?”
Mara looked quite pleased, as if I had “passed” her test. “Yes!” she smiled. “My name is MIX-ee-ah-WUNK-ee.”
Which seems to me a very good reason not to let Mara name the new baby