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Nov25

Analie: a pronunciation guide

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Analie: a pronunciation guide

How does one pronounce Analie?  Well, it’s maybe not so obvious as we originally thought.

Ana ≠ Anna (Do y’all remember the little “≠” sign from fourth grade math?!  I just found it in the Symbol directory in word.  Refresher, it means does not equal.)

So.  Now that we all know that Ana is not pronounced like Anna…HOW DO YOU PRONOUNCE IT?!

Well…pretend it’s the Fourth of July and you’re watching fireworks.  You’re going all Oooooh!, and Ahhhhhh! and THAT is where you need to stop.  Because Ana is pronounced like Ahhhhhh-na.

So that gives us Ahhhhhh-nalie.

But you don’t have to put that much emphasis on the first syllable.  Basically it’s just so you know which “A” vowel sound to go digging up in your English reservoir before saying her name.

I think  y’all got it now.

Ahhhhhh, isn’t she so cute?

(I’se just helping you practice.)

Nov17

The Name Game: Week 20

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The Name Game: Week 20

Today I am 39 weeks.  The Systems are no closer to delivery than they were last week.  Maybe I will be pregnant forever?  Nah.  Probably not.

Well, so.  Here’s the results on the poll for which first name goes with The Middle Name of Alexa.  It was actually a fairly close poll.

  1. Analie – 27.5%
  2. Julianne – 26.25%
  3. Isabelle – 25%
  4. Olivia – 12.5%
  5. Zerubabella – 8.75%

I find these results very interesting.  I also don’t feel like deleting a name this week.  I just…I just can’t do it.

Analie

Beatrice

Coraline

Darcy

Elinor

Frances

Gillian

Helena

Isabelle

Julianne

Kiera

Lenore

Marna

Nora

Olivia

Piper

Quincy

Rowena

Simone

Talia

Uma

Violet

Wren

Xara

Yalena

Zerubabella

 

Nov16

Another Baby Name Poll

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Another Baby Name Poll

This week, we decided to reveal The Middle Name.  Actually, The Middle Name has never been a secret, which was part of our master plan to annoy the heck out of my brother, whom we refer to as The Brother.  I believe it has been working.

Well.

Our daughter’s middle name will be…..

Alexa!!!

I’m going to get in about 3 different kinds of trouble with The Kid, because explaining the baby’s middle name involves revealing HIS name, which is Alex.

Alex…Alexa…very similar names, yes?

Well, she’s middle-named after The Kid.  (And we didn’t think The Kid made a very nice middle name.)  Whycomes she is named after The Kid?  Uh, because…I was super mean to him for most of his formative years.  Yep, true confessions right here.

I don’t even know why I was so mean to him.  I just was.  He was kind of an easy target because he was young and small and I was old and larger than him.  Also meaner.  I remember really being nasty to him on two separate Boundary Waters trips (the first much more so than the second) and feeling super guilty the whole time because he wasn’t doing anything wrong, just being younger and smaller.

I do maintain that I do not feel guilty for referring to The Kid as “Pukeface”, “Puker”, “Barfbucket” and a bunch of other vomit-related nicknames on the BW trip where he got dehydrated and threw up all the time for a couple of days straight.  (Sorry, man.  I just can’t feel bad about that.  You were throwing up everywhere.)

Poor Dad kept getting real mad at me for calling him all that stuff, too.

Now that The Kid is all grown up and engaged (YOU HEARD IT HERE!) and almost graduated from college, it’s uncanny how similar we are in personality and brains. (Although, not in anything having to do with computers, math, or science.)(  Maybe that’s why I picked on him growing up.  I knew he was going to grow up and take over the family with his coolness.

Anyway, we’ve buried the hatchet and now I’m much nicer to him.  But I still feel real bad about it if I think about it for too long.  Poor little The Kid.  He probably would have had a better childhood if not for me.

Therefore, this week’s poll involves which name(s) that are left on the list that you think go best with Alexa!  Vote well.

Nov10

The “A”s Have It, or The Name Game: Week 19

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The “A”s Have It, or The Name Game: Week 19

Joey and I have this diabolical sense of trickery that we like to instill into about 60% of what we do. (The other 40% of the time we are sleeping.) That’s why, on Saturday, we were all…Dude, we have to eliminate a baby name this week. Let’s do something arbitrary.

I know, as if the whole process hasn’t seemed rather arbitrary in the first place.

BUT I PROMISE YOU IT IS NOT.  We two are a well oiled machine.  (Or, instead of “we two” is it supposed to be “us two”?  Discuss.)

Yeah, back on track.

We decided to eliminate the name(s) on our list of remaining names that did not have an “A” in them.

Why the letter “A”, you ask?

Because it’s the first letter of the alphabet and it made sense to start there.  That’s why.  The first child usually gets the shaft, so the first letter of the alphabet might as well too.

The remaining names, with the “A”s highlighted are:

  • Analie
  • Isabelle
  • Julianne
  • Olivia
  • Piper
  • Zerubabella

OH NO.  DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE?!  Piper has no A.

Piper is deleted.

Poor Piper.

Analie

Beatrice

Coraline

Darcy

Elinor

Frances

Gillian

Helena

Isabelle

Julianne

Kiera

Lenore

Marna

Nora

Olivia

Piper

Quincy

Rowena

Simone

Talia

Uma

Violet

Wren

Xara

Yalena

Zerubabella


Nov3

The Name Game: Week 17

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The Name Game: Week 17

I’m starting to wonder how many of these weeks we are going to have left.  Today marks 37 weeks – FULL TERM, Y’ALL.  And her nursery is done and organized; pictures forthcoming, but not until Friday at least. (Due to the fact that Sister is coming and staying in there with The Child…the room will likely be real messy until they leave.)

So yeah.  Reviving names.

Poll results are as follows:

  1. Analie – 40%
  2. Julianne – 37%
  3. Nora – 16%
  4. Helena – 2%
  5. Xara – 2%

Soooooo….welcome back Analie and Julianne!

And, speaking of welcoming things, I’d better go make my salad, cut up some carrots for dinner, and get in the shower so I’m not late to Bible Study.  I have a really bad track record on Bible Study attendance.  Usually I feel awful on Wednesday mornings, or I forget it’s Wednesday (true, that has happened a lot), or for some reason Joey goes in to work super late and I don’t want to up and leave if he’s actually at home for awhile.

I should stop typing and leave.

The NEW AND IMPROVED names list now looks like this:

Analie

Beatrice

Coraline

Darcy

Elinor

Frances

Gillian

Helena

Isabelle

Julianne

Kiera

Lenore

Marna

Nora

Olivia

Piper

Quincy

Rowena

Simone

Talia

Uma

Violet

Wren

Xara

Yalena

Zerubabella

Oct27

The Name Game: Week 16

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The Name Game: Week 16

All this talk about vegetables and I didn’t even finish all my spinach salad tonight.

Also, I don’t hardly even have time to post this post because I’m at church and Joey’s all, I NEED THAT COMPUTER YOU’RE USING.  But I think he may have been faking me out because he just left to get more pumpkins.

Here are the results from The Poll about Vegetables.

  1. Zerubabella – 56.72%
  2. Olivia – 19.4%
  3. Piper – 10.45%
  4. Isabelle – 7.45%
  5. Elinor – 5.97%

First of all, SO not surprised that Zerubabella won.  Someone was cheating.  I mean, I don’t really care if there was cheating or not, I just noticed it yesterday afternoon and thought it was funny.  Zerubabella had 114 votes and pretty much blew the other four out of the water.

Second of all, Joey must now say farewell to his Lord of the Rings name…buh-bye Elinor.

Analie

Beatrice

Coraline

Darcy

Elinor

Frances

Gillian

Helena

Isabelle

Julianne

Kiera

Lenore

Marna

Nora

Olivia

Piper

Quincy

Rowena

Simone

Talia

Uma

Violet

Wren

Xara

Yalena

Zerubabella

Oct20

The Name Game: Week….15? (How many weeks has this been going on, anyways?)

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The Name Game: Week….15? (How many weeks has this been going on, anyways?)

This post is going to be a short one.  Want to know why?   BECAUSE WE HAVE INTERNET AT HOME.  And I am going to attempt to post pictures of the house, before and after style.

So.  Let’s get this bidness out of the way.

The poll results were rather unsurprising.  I mean, I could pretty much have guessed how they were going to roll before I even clicked the Publish button on the post.  I knew Darcy would lose, and I knew Z-bub would win.  I just didn’t know how MUCH it would win by.  (Cheaters.)

This poll had about…80 more votes than I had been expecting.  Most of those went straight to Zerubabella.  As I said before: cheaters.

  1. Zerubabella – 42.24%
  2. Olivia – 25.47%
  3. Isabelle – 15.53%
  4. Piper – 13.66%
  5. Elinor – 1.86%
  6. Darcy – 1.24%

Poor Darcy.  I knew her day would come eventually, and I figured this would be the poll that did it.  So…she is DELETED.

Analie

Beatrice

Coraline

Darcy

Elinor

Frances

Gillian

Helena

Isabelle

Julianne

Kiera

Lenore

Marna

Nora

Olivia

Piper

Quincy

Rowena

Simone

Talia

Uma

Violet

Wren

Xara

Yalena

Zerubabella

Oct19

A New Poll

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A New Poll

So far, the worst part of being pregnant is the EXTREMELY DISTURBING DREAMS I have.  For instance, last night I dreamed that my Sister and I were in South America on vacation, but she did something really annoying and hosed off the local government.  So they decided to kill her.  The closest thing they had to kill her with was a wood chipper type thing, so they sent her through that and then made paper out of her.  Then they made me write letters on the paper.

I woke up, like, SOBBING ALL OVER MY PILLOW.

The only silver lining on this dark cloud of my Sister’s demise, is that I am likely to be pregnant for only about 5 more weeks.  That’s a very limited number of sleeps and potential for highly disturbing dreams.

Therefore.

We must eliminate a name from our rapidly dwindling list.  We’ll delete the least popular name in the “Which name do you hope NEVER gets voted off” poll which I have just now made.

Please vote accordingly.

Oct13

The Name Game: Week 14

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The Name Game: Week 14

First, a very important bit of information.  THE INTERNET WILL BE ACTIVATED AT OUR HOUSE ON FRIDAY!  Finally!  I am so excited I would wiggle around in my chair if it wouldn’t require any energy.  I have no energy whatsoever at this point.  It all got used up on getting out of bed this morning.

Second, as soon as I’m done posting this, Joey and I are on our way to the BMV to get the last of our Indiana license plates.  The title finally showed up the SUV yesterday…so today is the day.  No more Texas plates for us.  (sniffle, sniffle)

Joey was generous enough to share his disgusting cough with me a couple of days ago, so for the past 48 hours we have both sounded like a couple of smokers who should have quit 40 years ago.  It’s attractive, trust me.  So between not being able to breathe, being pregnant, and coughing like a smoker…it’s super hard to get anything done.

That being said, I did throw 24 yeasted dinner rolls in the freezer for after the baby comes.  I now have 5 main dishes, 20 biscuits, and 24 yeast rolls in my deep freeze.  I still have yet to make the enchiladas, but by the end of the week I hope to have 8 main dishes frozen.  Because you just never know.

Speaking of the baby.

(Also – is anyone else as bored of this blog post as I am?  Seriously.  It is like poke-my-eye out dull.  Sorry.  Side effect of the sickness.)

It’s, like, that time of the week again when we delete a baby name.  I was going to do a poll this week, but I forgot about it yesterday (because I have sickness) and since we’re getting webs at home on Friday I’ll just do a poll next week.

Additionally – the name for the baby IS on the list.  I am aware that some of you (mainly members of my family) are under the impression that the name isn’t even on the list.  UM, HELLO.  My mom reads this blog. If I were to lie to all of you AND HER?  I would get spanked with a wooden spoon even though I’m married and old and live in a totally different state from her, and have for years.

Mom doesn’t mess around with the lying business.  Never has.

Once, in the yellow house, I stole a graham cracker in the afternoon after Mom said I couldn’t have one, and  Iate it on the top step of the basement stairs because that seemed like a sneaky place where Mom wouldn’t catch me.  Later Mom asked me if I’d had one. (She probably found the crumbs on the linoleum or something.) I lied.  And then I got spanked.

All this to say, I am not lying.  The baby’s name IS on the list.

Which name is deleted from the list this week, you ask?

Wren.

Joey decided.

He just came over and told me.

Six names left…and six weeks until she’s due to arrive.  Please, little girl, DO NOT COME VERY EARLY!  YOUR ROOM IS NOT READY!

Analie

Beatrice

Coraline

Darcy

Elinor

Frances

Gillian

Helena

Isabelle

Julianne

Kiera

Lenore

Marna

Nora

Olivia

Piper

Quincy

Rowena

Simone

Talia

Uma

Violet

Wren

Xara

Yalena

Zerubabella

Oct6

And now…to the voting

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And now…to the voting

We still don’t have internet at home.  It is a Major Annoyance.  This is why there have been, like, zero posts on this here blog lately.  It’s hard to post on the webs when you have no webs.

Anyway, here’s a poll for the week.  Vote for your favorite name that is left.

Who knows how many we will delete…or which ones.  We reserve the right to be tricksy.