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HelpRe: Gabby's Congrats R2
in reply to a message by gabriellagrace
UN: blaaarg
LN: McGuire
DH (38): Timothy (Phone Co, Wavy Red/Brown Hair & Blue Eyes)
DW (23): Melissa (Artist, Curly Dark Brown & Brown Eyes, Biracial)
DSD (14): Frances “Nancy”
DS (1½): Heinrich Dean Keating (Wavy Brown Hair & Blue Eyes, Biracial)
DS (3 months): Sylvester Wolfgang Yves (Wavy Brown Hair & Blue Eyes, Biracial)
Well, they would deal. They had before. Heinrich babbled in the bedroom as she stared at the pink line on stick. Pavarotti crooned Mozart on the stereo. The clock ticked. She tossed the stick in the trash and went back to her painting.
She told Tim when he came home. She was surprised at how he took it. He looked kind of amused. "Good," he said.
"Good?"
"Yeah." Heinrich wailed from the bedroom. They listened. It was a lonely wail that did not recall the baffling colic from his early months. "We're kind of a family now, aren't we?"
"Yes."
"Us and Nan and our own two kids. In this little house."
She was very pleased. This is what she had wanted and never expected. "Yes," she said.
Family: Tim's parents reacted predictably. "Well," his mother sighed. "Are you going to marry her?" Melissa's was more enthusiastic; Jessica ecstatic about the opportunity to be an aunt again, Victor disapproving; the grandparents pleased.
Dealing with Heinrich: In the last trimester, Heinrich became cranky and uncooperative. Tim and Melissa worked to not be disheartened; they made a point of spending more time with him, together and separately, taking long evening walks after Tim's work, even if he was very tired. It was difficult. Nancy's visits were dominated by doting on Heinrich; he called her Nanna and she spent many hours with him, reading to him, walking with him, listening to Mozart together. It was with her that he took his first independent steps, which Melissa felt with a small pang of envy.
The baby was a boy. Melissa felt a flitter of disappointment she didn't like to acknowledge; little girls had always been part of her dream, and little boys hardly ever. She took the naming much more seriously this time, which disappointed Nancy a lot; as a compromise they let Nancy choose one of the baby's names. She insisted on Wolfgang. She had gotten way into Mozart in the past year.
So, Wolfgang. The first name choices came down to Sylvester, which honored an uncle of Melissa's, and Andreas, which would honor several artists. Melissa loved, and Tim liked, both names; finally they picked Sylvester, since two of Heinrich's names honored Tim's side. The last name would honor an artist; Melissa did lots of agonized pondering before picking Yves, after Yves Tanguy.
Ummm the unexpected thing is that Heinrich ummm really likes Sylvester.
Need to collect some more names
1. What were/are the names of your real life pets?
Fidel, Che, Gecky, Bela, Dmitry, Tiger
Poodle, Houndy, Nadia, Lili, Phoebe, Liz, Fluffy, Susan
2. What are your favorite names?
Minerva, Maria, Cecilia, Thomasina, Olga, Zelda, Fernanda, Alice, Angela, Lucretia
Franz, Felix, Benedict, Ludwig, Simon, Albert, George, Ferdinand, Peregrine
LN: McGuire
DH (38): Timothy (Phone Co, Wavy Red/Brown Hair & Blue Eyes)
DW (23): Melissa (Artist, Curly Dark Brown & Brown Eyes, Biracial)
DSD (14): Frances “Nancy”
DS (1½): Heinrich Dean Keating (Wavy Brown Hair & Blue Eyes, Biracial)
DS (3 months): Sylvester Wolfgang Yves (Wavy Brown Hair & Blue Eyes, Biracial)
Well, they would deal. They had before. Heinrich babbled in the bedroom as she stared at the pink line on stick. Pavarotti crooned Mozart on the stereo. The clock ticked. She tossed the stick in the trash and went back to her painting.
She told Tim when he came home. She was surprised at how he took it. He looked kind of amused. "Good," he said.
"Good?"
"Yeah." Heinrich wailed from the bedroom. They listened. It was a lonely wail that did not recall the baffling colic from his early months. "We're kind of a family now, aren't we?"
"Yes."
"Us and Nan and our own two kids. In this little house."
She was very pleased. This is what she had wanted and never expected. "Yes," she said.
Family: Tim's parents reacted predictably. "Well," his mother sighed. "Are you going to marry her?" Melissa's was more enthusiastic; Jessica ecstatic about the opportunity to be an aunt again, Victor disapproving; the grandparents pleased.
Dealing with Heinrich: In the last trimester, Heinrich became cranky and uncooperative. Tim and Melissa worked to not be disheartened; they made a point of spending more time with him, together and separately, taking long evening walks after Tim's work, even if he was very tired. It was difficult. Nancy's visits were dominated by doting on Heinrich; he called her Nanna and she spent many hours with him, reading to him, walking with him, listening to Mozart together. It was with her that he took his first independent steps, which Melissa felt with a small pang of envy.
The baby was a boy. Melissa felt a flitter of disappointment she didn't like to acknowledge; little girls had always been part of her dream, and little boys hardly ever. She took the naming much more seriously this time, which disappointed Nancy a lot; as a compromise they let Nancy choose one of the baby's names. She insisted on Wolfgang. She had gotten way into Mozart in the past year.
So, Wolfgang. The first name choices came down to Sylvester, which honored an uncle of Melissa's, and Andreas, which would honor several artists. Melissa loved, and Tim liked, both names; finally they picked Sylvester, since two of Heinrich's names honored Tim's side. The last name would honor an artist; Melissa did lots of agonized pondering before picking Yves, after Yves Tanguy.
Ummm the unexpected thing is that Heinrich ummm really likes Sylvester.
Need to collect some more names
1. What were/are the names of your real life pets?
Fidel, Che, Gecky, Bela, Dmitry, Tiger
Poodle, Houndy, Nadia, Lili, Phoebe, Liz, Fluffy, Susan
2. What are your favorite names?
Minerva, Maria, Cecilia, Thomasina, Olga, Zelda, Fernanda, Alice, Angela, Lucretia
Franz, Felix, Benedict, Ludwig, Simon, Albert, George, Ferdinand, Peregrine
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