A Peanut by any other name...

It doesn't matter if Peanut is a Boy or a Girl. I don't think Tom and I will be able to decide on a name either way. Tom has his idea of what makes a good name and I have mine and there isn't a lot of meeting in the middle. Tom likes more traditional names, preferably with family ties. I want "different" names. Names with a little funk to them. I always hated how popular Jennifer was for a name. There were usually three or four of us in each class (and that was in North Adams.) Tom had a similar experience, but it didn't affect him the way it did me.

A friend of ours had a baby Dec. 30th and had a nice, unusual name for their new son. I loved it. I did an Internet search for it to see how popular it was and what it's origins were. I found a website called thinkbabynames.com. It was well put together and had charts on popularity and whether it was increasing or decreasing in popularity. You can also search by country. I thought Tom and I were picking some more unusual names, but was dismayed to find many of them were in the top 100. Back to the drawing boards I guess. Peanut works fine for now, but I don't know that Peanut Person would be a long term solution.

I started reading What to Expect When You're Expecting recently and skipped over the first three months to Month 4. Once I got to that chapter though, I found that the book actually puts me in month 5 (weeks 18-22, I'll be 20 weeks tomorrow.) I find the whole month/week transition very confusing. I find it much easier to say "I'm X weeks" rather then "I'm X months." I don't know if it's because I know when we conceived or what makes it so confusing, but I just can't make the week/month conversion work.