Paging Dr. Emily

Since we found out about Jenny’s impending c-section, we’ve been joking about how I could be the one to tie her tubes. (Don’t ask me why. And you already knew we were weird.), so when she posted yesterday about how she pretty much can’t wait for that to happen, I commented that she left out one important detail – that I would be performing the procedure.

Which lead us to have this conversation via IM (and since we think we are hilarious, we’re posting it):

Emily says:
did you like my comment on your post?
Jenny says:
yes, we really do need to explore that option!
Emily says:
i mean really, i’m pretty sure we’d be the most famous bloggers ever if I could get bobby to hold the video camera while I tied your tubes.
Jenny says:
that is sooo bad!! no offense but could you take a crash course first?
Emily says:
sure. I will find a youtube video.
Jenny says:
oh Lord! are you cool with blood? i don’t want you passing out before you finish the job!
Emily says:
hmm… I don’t know. I’ve never really been presented with a sliced-open body part before. But there’s only one way to find out.
Jenny says:
can you like do some experiements in a lab or something?
Emily says:
good idea. maybe i can take a summer sprint course in tube tying
how hard could it be?
Jenny says:
seriously you can tie a knot, right?
Emily says:
I’ve been tying my shoes for years.
Jenny says:
innards, shoestrings, its all the same
Emily says:
totes

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The Name Game

Today my famous Uncle Paul wrote a very funny diatribe post on what I should name my wee little baby. You know, after I find out it’s gender.   (I have an ultrasound today to determine how far along I am and all that jazz, and I’m gonna ask ’em to look real close and see if perhaps my child has developed it’s genitalia early.  Just in case.)

What Uncle Paul may not have realized as he was writing said post was that once again, I have got this wrapped up.  Both my babies were named MONTHS before they were born.  Bobby and I had that all wrapped up and nailed down.  We called the babies by their names as soon as we found out whether that kid had a pee-pee or a vajayjay.  As a matter of fact, when we had our 20 week ultrasound with Sophie, and found out she was a girl, we didn’t quite have her name finalized yet, and I told Bobby we could not leave the doctor’s office until we had decided what our daughter’s name would be (we were pretty sure, so fortunately it didn’t take long.)

So, that’s  how we roll.  We already have a couple ideas that we (well, I) really like for this baby, but it’s not decided yet. However you can bet your sweet bippy it will be engraved in stone by July.

Then, there are some people (read: EMILY) who not only don’t find out the baby’s gender, they also have no name picked out before the blessed child arrives.  Even though they have had NINE MONTHS to think about it.  I will say in Emily’s case, that with both her babies, she at least took a SPREADSHEET of possible names with her to the hospital. While this is totally nerdy, at least she had it narrowed down to more than the entire contents of the Book of 10,000 Baby Names.

Now, continuing with her sister’s maddening tradition, my beloved cousin Anna is also carrying a nameless child.  HOWEVER!  She does know that it’s a GIRL, which is very exciting for me, because it means that I also know it’s a girl, and I am not DOOMED to wonder until she gives birth.  But although she and her hubby have known the baby’s gender for um, EVER, they still haven’t picked a name.  As you may have guessed, this is driving me bonkers.  So I thought I’d take a page from Uncle Paul’s book and suggest a few of our family gems from Emily, Anna’s and my shared family history.  At least you can add these to the spreadsheet, Annie.

America – our great-great grandmother’s name.  Patriotic!  And since the baby’s gonna be born in July…I think it’s a lock.  Or, you could name your daughter what America named her daughters -Florida and Alabama.  (Florida was our great-grandmother.)  That way your kid’s name can represent family history, Disney World, and the deep South all at once!

If you don’t like those, you could always name her after Grandma’s Aunt Shin.  Everybody loves a good baby-named-after-a-body-part.  Elbow, Clavicle, Uvula, I think you’ve got some good options there.

And of course, there’s always Jenny.  I mean after the late 70’s, I am pretty sure no one is ever gonna name their kid that again EVER, so at least she’d be unique for her generation!

But if you don’t like any of my suggestions, feel free to check out Uncle Paul’s post and steal some name ideas from the other side of the family!

How about you my dear readers?  Did you name ’em months in advance or not ’til you saw their perfect little faces?

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This is Why You Should Never go to Grad School

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Monday night, a couple dozen of us Dayton area bloggers got a super-amaaaazing treat.  We were thrown a little chocolate-and-cheese fondue party by the generous folks at the Melting Pot’s Dayton location.  If you have never been, you have GOT TO GO.  My first time there was last September for my 32nd birthday.  It is THE special occasion destination for me from now on!  The many different kinds of cheeses served with fresh veggies, chips, and bread were indescribably good.  And the chocolate??  They have about a million different ways to melt chocolate and they are all heavenly!  We had fruit, cheesecake, brownie pieces, marshmallows and even flippin’ rice krispie treats doused in hot melty chocolate!  They’ve got dark chocolate, milk chocolate, chocolate with caramel, nuts, and even a couple of things they set on FIRE!  It was – sinful and perfect.

And a lot of my faaaavorite people were there!  Like Amy, and Cortney, Andrea, Katie, Becky, Tricia and Susan.  And new friends like Celia and Amy and Kate.

But guess who was not there?

THIS GIRL:

Emily could not join us you see, because she was in class.  As in, schoolLearning.  Because someone thinks getting her master’s degree is more important than pigging out on melted cheese and chocolate with your blogging buddies.

Lame, right!??  I knoooooooooow!   So Emily missed out on the wonders of the Melting Pot.  She missed one of our fab servers singing happy birthday to Kandi in French:

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She missed hugging some really awesome people:

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Katie and Moi

(Becky was my super-hot date.  She let me drive her mini-van!!!!!!)

She missed Cortney and I trying to out-goof each other in this photo session (because Cortney, in all our pictures, always looks mildly happy to be with me, and I always look really happy to be with her. So we were trying to mimic each others expressions and reverse roles in the last two shots and well…it kind if all got out of hand!)

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Another thing Miss Smarty-Pants missed is the TOUR we got of the Melting Pot!  It was way cool!  One of the things I love most about this place is the atmosphere.  It makes you want to stay for-ev-ah.  And they DO let you stay and take your time with your fondue!  It’s a really awesome place to go on a date.  Andrea and I tried out one of the cozy little just-for-two booths to demonstrate just how close you can get!

Sorry Mr. MommySnacks, I had to borrow your wife there.   (Oh, Andrea.  We’ll always have the Melting Pot!)

And you know what else Emily missed??

FLIPPIN’ MELTED CHEESE AND CHOCOLATE!!! OH MAH GOSH!!!!  WHO DOES THAT?

“Academics”, apparently.

How much cheese and chocolate is your master’s degree gonna get ya, huh Emily?? HUH??

So anyway.  To sum up:

The Melting Pot is amazing and you should all go there.

Katie rocks for getting us all invited.

Cortney should smile more when she gets her picture taken with me.

Emily should drop out of grad school even though she only has one week of class left.

And higher education can never come to anything good.

But this?  WAS GOOD!!

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