Kara and I have struggled to know just how to refer to Baby Graves in conversations without sounding harsh and distant (“it” . . . “that”) naïve (“he” . . . “she”) or too generic (“Baby Graves”). Leave it to Kara to come up with a clever description—after all this is the woman whose one-liners are so famous in our house, we regularly spend our evenings laughing so hard at comments Kara made the night before (like the time when she said in response to my lament that I was getting older every time I looked in the mirror . . . “I have the perfect solution. Stop looking in the mirror.” Or the time when I asked her what it would be like if we switched minds and not bodies. She responded like an assassin, “You’d be running this house").
Recently, Kara started referring to our baby as “our little pocket of sunshine.” At first I thought this was cheesy—a bit too dramatic. But the more and more I hear her use this phrase, I like it. In a few weeks, we'll know if the "pocket of sunshine" is of the male or female persuasion. And then we begin the journey/battle/process/negotiation process/bartering/election of selecting a name that will look more respectable on the birth certificate than "little pocket of sunshine."
7 comments:
Have you thought about the name Natasha?
Get it? because she sings the song 'pocket of sunshine'?
...I thought it was clever.
My wife and I had the same issue -- what to call the baby before birth? For whatever reason, we ended up calling our first child 'Peanut' until she was born and named, and our second child was 'Little Bit' until he was born and named. I really think that giving them a temporary, pre-birth name helped us to begin the relationship with our kids early, and our sense of anticipation of the little person that was on his/her way.
I wonder if you'll end up abbreviating to 'Sunshine' ... or possibly Pocket? :-) Just till the birth of course...
Does Kara have any type of Indian (Native American) in her?
...Pocket of Sunshine!
Phil,
Good question. I'll investigate.
Brian,
Sun-pock it is. Ha.
JG
I got the name "pocket of sunshine" from Natasha Bedingfield's song :)
Josh,
When do you expect the "Pocket of Sunshine" to rise. It will be a wonderful day of your life. Take it all in as slow as possible. Soon you will be unable to remember life before Sunshine.
Thank you for your message at Highland Oaks this morning. It was right on target and God be Praised!
If it was a boy, you could call him "Ray" as in ray of sunshine. And since we know you love basketball, his middle name could be Allen. "Ray Allen Graves" sounds good, doesn't it?
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