Last weekend, I had the very great pleasure of letting my Grandma tell my Grandpa that he will soon be a Great Grandpa for a second time. As she spoke, she did not realise she was also telling the rest the family in the room, who up to that point had no idea themselves. A great moment and a lovely finish to the weekend.
Presumably caused by the presence of my single sister and not-quite-married-yet brother, there was also a strangely entertaining silence that lasted for the several seconds until Grandma clarified: "Victoria and Jon are having a baby!". Then there was joy and excitement all round.
He She It AC looks an awful lot like Zack did at that age. Seriously though, even now Zack still has that tummy ;o)
Would you like to meet it?
No, wait, I need to straighten something out first: I've never been happy with "it" for an unborn child. I can't imagine I'm alone in finding "it" far too....inanimate? impersonal?
Anyway, it's a problem because how do we know whether to go with 'he' or 'she'? Well we don't; not for a couple of months yet at least. With Zack I think I went with 'he' pretty early, partly because we were quite keen on having a son first time around.
Second time around it feels a little different. Another son would provide someone to go in goal whilst Zack and I played 'Wembley' (yes I know girls can play football, I just don't know girls who can play football). However, a daughter would complete the set, and I should imagine add another level to the whole experience.
To make matters worse I'm writing this all down now. I wouldn't want my daughter looking back to see I called her 'he' throughout the pregnancy and assume I had wanted a boy, or vice versa.
For a while I considered 'they', but that is just too plural. Having had the scan yesterday, I can now happily and confidently state that there is no need for the use of plurals. *phew*
So, 'he', 'she' and 'it' are all out. Which doesn't leave a lot. After much thought (well some...OK a little) I decided to make up a random codename. Some of you will know why I've picked the codename 'AC' and will quite rightly think I'm a moron. The rest of you: don't worry about it.
Now back to the point. Would you like to meet AC?
AC is due to arrive on 25th September.
Zack has a tendency to call Vicky and I "Mumm-ee-ah" and "Dadd-ee-ah". I'm wondering if all of this actually takes me from 'Daddy' to 'Daddier'? Though I'm not sure I'm happy with describing Genghis Khan as 'Daddiest': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan#Descent, so I might have got this wrong.
I'm also wondering if 'Daddy's Diary' would have been a better title than 'Jon's Journal'. In any case, the topic will no doubt dominate what I write between now and our September ETA.
Tea and bed time again.
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