6 Jan 2005
We Finally Have a Name!
For those of you who have been on pins and needles, the new baby’s name is… No, it’s not Chinook. Nor is it Thunder. Drum roll, please… Alexander. We finally had to do something since Jamie was due to be checked out of the hospital. They really prefer to have the SS card info done before mother and baby leave.
If you are curious, there is a great uncle Alexander in the family, an archbishop in Ottowa who was my grandmother’s uncle. To be honest, though, Jamie and I were watching the Athens olympics this summer and we saw a Canadian diver named Alexandre somethingorother. We both thought “hmm, that’s not bad…” And here we are.
Jamie is doing pretty well, by the way. She is recovering from the surgery and moving kind of slow. Thankfully mom is here to help out during this difficult period.
Alex is also doing pretty well, though it is hard to tell since he sleeps so much (I wonder how long THAT will last). I’m not complaining, though. We’ll take it when we can get it. Before too long he’ll probably sleep during the day and party all night. I’ll post a few more photos later today, including a sweet one of Alex and his Gramma Sam, or Gramma Thunder, as we are sure he will want to call her.
Post Scriptum: We (meaning me, his dad, at least) are going to call him Xander. Jamie isn’t quite comfortable with that yet. But we both agree that he is too little to be called Alexander. AND, he has started staying up at night. Yup, sleeps all day…