Monday, January 26, 2009

The name game

Why did I get a girl? All the "Old Wives Tales" science had us pegged for a boy. I can only blame myself for proposing to name the child Josie - What kid wouldn't want to think they were named after a Steely Dan song? And I enjoyed Alma since besides being the name of Becky's great-grandmother, it's the first name of Hitchcock's wife. I allowed the Butterbean too cool of a name that it had to go for the girl gender.

If I'd said, "Eunice Blanche Corey," the Butterbean would have grown balls to dodge that bullet.

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