Birthdays & Babies

Its birthday week at our house. Seriously. My grandfather’s birthday was Monday, my brother’s girlfriend of 4 years, Amanda, celebrated on Tuesday, Doug’s birthday was yesterday and his mother’s is today. So Doug has decreed that Brenna will be born tomorrow.

Now, that will make her 2 ½ weeks early, but if she’s ready I’m OK with it. There are, however, 2 small problems.

Problem 1: Her room isn’t done. And I don’t mean small things like pictures or a rocking chair. I mean totally not even painted, no furniture in it, we still need to buy baseboards not done. There is still stuff-from-Doug’s-office-in-it not done. My child is going to spend her first weeks of life sleeping in a Pack & Play…

Problem 2: We have no middle name picked out. Coming up with a first name was more difficult than I thought. And people had very strong opinions about the names we had picked. When Doug & I decided upon Brenna most thought it was a great choice. Although we did have one discussion with Doug’s grandmother which went something like this:

Doug: We’ve decided on the name Brenna.
Grandma: Brianna?
Doug: Brenna.
Grandma: Brenda?
Doug: No, Brenna.
Grandma: Brenna? Really? And what about a middle name?
Me: We haven’t decided on a middle name yet.
Grandma: It should be Marie. Marie is a family name.
Me: I hate the name Marie.

Which takes me to the main dilemma. Family names. I liked Elizabeth, until my mother said, “Elizabeth is a family name.” Grrr... I also thought Brenna sounded good with Colleen, Christine and Catherine as middle names. Those also happen to be the names of my mother-in-law, mother, and step-mother. Nope, too many toes to step on there. Doug brought a suggestion home from work: Ophelia. Nice. But then her initials would be BO. Not happening. And he vetoed Therese. Initials BTH. Not good.

So, if anyone close doesn’t have anything important going on Saturday we’ll be working on the baby’s room- unless I’m in the hospital. Or if you have a middle name suggestion, shoot it my way. I’ve resorted to the book of “Cool Baby Names”. Yikes! It reads like a roll call of strippers….