Egads, I'm gonna be a dad!

[Dextra]

For boys, I love the name Arthur. Or Andrew. David, Joseph, and Matthew are close behind, guess I'm boring and biblical.
Guess it really depends on your background, how you feel about your family, etc... My uncle named my cousin by my grandmother's maiden name, Brock. Unusual, but with a tie in to the past. When I was pregnant, I thought I'd name my eldest Gaia Aurora Diana (Earth-Sun/Dawn-Moon), but while I was in labour I changed that to Genevieve (after Gwenhyfar of Arthurian legend) Danielle (my best friend was a Dan). Our youngest is Chrystine (had to have some weirdness in her name) Jessica (named after Hound's sister who died as an infant) Alexandra. I like names that can be shortened easily.
Never had boys, so daddy Hound (aka M Jason Parent) is maintaining the pharm's rifles quite well and buttering up the local construction contractors (something about building a tower an moat, although how he'll find something fierce enough to stock the moat that'll survive a Canuck winter, I don't know)

Anyhoo, CONGRATS! Yet another copy of the Kids Colouring Book to give away when it comes out!

 

[Deedlit]

Tasslehoff Burrfoot
Kronin Thistleknot
Mapshaker Wanderfuss
Trapspringer Furrfoot
Earwig Lockpicker

 

[Magestrike]

My suggestions

Congratulations first of all. Kids are wonderful. my suggestions would be:

Tristan Michael
Connor
Xavier
Jameson
Anthony James

Just my thoughts.

Mage

 

[FullTinCan]

Congratulations, and don't worry about the gaming for a month, it passes all too quickly. Just make sure that after your baby is born that you bust your hump helping your wife. She'll need it, and feel like she needs to do stuff. Don't let her, after all, she will have just delivered her 9 month long womb interloper.

That said, my kids names are:

Aidan Gareth (Lemon-aidan)
Savannah Emily (Savannah Banana)
Ainsley Maxine (Ain-zamia)

Other names we had thought of were:
- Sebastian Aeric
- Mara Dena
- Sebastian George (if our last baby was a boy, and had been born on his great-grandfather's birthday).

Beware of the children's abbreviations, and what they might spell.

 

[tburdett]

Congrats!

I've always like the name Calvin (as in Calvin and Hobbes).

We have 6 and 2 year old girls and they are great! It seems like they are easier to take care of than boys at their ages, but when they get older I will just have to show the young men the .38 and baseball bat!

:shakes head:

As the father of 3 daughters I can tell right now that you are going to have trouble.

A .38 and a baseball bat? Who is that going to scare? Not some over-eager teenager, that's for sure!

Show them a .45 and a shovel. Explain to them that one is for doing the dirty work and the other is for covering it up.

It's also a good idea to show them the maps that detail where you have already dug the shallow graves.

Talk in detail about the wonders of lime and it's marvelous properties in aiding decomposition. Show them the bags of lime.

No, I'm not a worried father, I'm a prepared father.

 

[madriel]

Congratulations everybody. Two of my three sisters-in-law just announced that they're expecting. On the same night and they're due the same week. First child for both, too.

 

[Old One]

Congrats!

die kluge,

All I can say is, "Time Flies"!

We are due in early February (a boy) and the crush of things that must be done (nursery, painting, etc) is starting to pile up...it seems like we found out only yesterday!

On names, we have ours picked out, but aren't sharing with anyone until birth. We want to avoid the whole "I knew a serial killer named X".

Have fun!

~ Old One

 

[starkad]

Congratulations!

How about:

Robert Michael

 

[Michael Tree]

Re: Congratulations

Alexander is a pretty good name ("the Great" and "and the awful, horrible, no good, very bad day")

Someone else remembers that book! I loved it as a kid.

My girlfriend is determined to name a daughter Caligula.

Me, I'd go with Skurge Dwarfbane.

 

[Crothian]

Congradualtions. Remember, Crothian works well for both boys and girls