The Mrs. P baby thread

[Mrs. P]

Oh, the men's thread was getting a little tiresome.

Once the thread degenerated into a staunch defense of cartoon tissue boxes, nothing of note was going to be discussed there anyway.

So what is it that your husband is a major fan of? That will get us guessing on the name!

And, because you just know it's going to happen... I'm getting first dibs on the Baby P Prediction Game!

I say June 5, a boy, named Alexi Button P.

HAHA. We sure love prediction games around here.

Anyway to answer your question:

Cats
Cars (hybrids, Ford, etc.)
Kitchen Gadgets
Star Trek
Archer
Movie comedies
Marketing
James Bond
Jazz/Big Band standards
1970s ballads
1990s alternative rock
Legos
Apple products
1970s sitcom and comedies (i.e. Hawaii 5-0, Rockford Files, etc.)
Mrs. P

 

[ice coverage]

I think there are names that neither girl or boy, both gender can use?

Oh, yes, I agree. :agree: (For example, Jordan is one of my favorites for girls or boys.)
To my ear/eye, Axel/Axl strikes me as masculine. YMMV.

 

[Interspectator]

I like Robin for girls and boys...and Charlie.

 

[MalAssada]

My prediction:
Girl, born in June 17, named Katherine/Katarina/Kathryn/whatever variation. Suits both Katarina Witt and two Star Trek characters

 

[alabhaois]

Allow me to congratulate you and Mr P over the exciting news!!

 

[Mrs. P]

Allow me to congratulate you and Mr P over the exciting news!!

Thank you!

 

[Dee4707]

First of all....Congrats Mr. & Mrs. P!!!

To my ear/eye, Axel/Axl strikes me as masculine. YMMV.

We used to have a poster here named Axel Annie...don't know what happened to her.

 

[Sam-Skwantch]

Congrats Mrs P.

 

[Eloise]

Mrs P. such lovely news! congratulations! I rarely post, but I read a lot of the posts and always appreciate your poise and your wit and the fact you always have something nice to say about each skater!

Congrats to you and your husband!

 

[thoakun]

Congrats to Mrs.P. I'm Vietnamese too so I have a little hope for a future Nam Nguyen named English name-Vietnamese name-P.

 

[Mrs. P]

Thank you all for the well-wishes and kind words.

Congrats to Mrs.P. I'm Vietnamese too so I have a little hope for a future Nam Nguyen named English name-Vietnamese name-P.

Nam would actually be an appropriate name for my kid since my dad's is "Ngoui Nam," hailing from the South (Vietnam).

 

[mnm464]

Congratulations, Mrs. P! Not that I want to force a name, but what about June for a girl?Especially since she or he will be born then~obviously a diff name if your child is a boy! Maybe not a top figure skater's name.

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

I know I've already congratulated you privately, but I thought I should repeat it on the public part of the forum.

You will make a great mother. I may only know you through an internet forum, but through your activity on it, I know that you are a very thoughtful, helpful and caring person. And those are the qualities that make a great parent.

Hey, you are already kind of a mother figure to all of us on the forum, and you are doing a great job at that. :agree:

Of course, raising a child is a little bit different (!) But, trust me, you'll be perfect for it.


A few of the members have been discussing baby names. I don't want to make any suggestions for given names, as I feel that is a personal discussion that should take place within the family.

But, I do want to add something about surnames.

I have always liked the Spanish naming custom. They start with the given name(s), and are then followed by the father's surname AND the mother's surname.

So, for example, in figure skating we have:

Javier Fernández López
Javier Raya Buenache
Sonia Lafuente Martínez
Marta García Orge
Sara Hurtado Martín / Adrià Díaz Bronchud

The Portuguese naming custom is similar, except that they have the mother's surname first, followed by the father's surname. For example:

Ayrton Senna da Silva (yes, Senna was the surname of Ayrton's mother)

What I like about these customs is that it is a lovely way of including both the parents are a permanent feature of their child's life.

Personally, I have often thought that using both surnames would be perfect for mixed-race families. It would be a good way of acknowledging the heritage of both sides of the child's family.


But, I will leave with one piece of advice. Whatever you and your husband decide with regards your child's name, make sure it is something you both like!

All the best, and congratulations again to both you and your husband on your upcoming family life.

CaroLiza_fan

 

[Mrs. P]

Thanks CaroLiza_fan for that very kind post. I do see GS as a family of its own--I've gotten to know so many great people through here!

So regarding my own name, I took my husband's name (i.e. Mrs. P) legally. But professionally I'm still known as Ms. H. As a writer for the last 10 years, I just was reluctant that adjust to a new professional brand. In addition, my husband and I agree that it's nice that we can both maintain our own careers and professions and that keeping my maiden name professionally made sense.

Legally, my maiden name is part of my middle name, just like my mother.

My older brother has three lovely children (they are Vietnamese through and through since my brother married a Vietnamese woman. My nieces (twins) and my nephew mainly go by their Western names for school and such, but they have beautiful Vietnamese names that my mother gave them, that is basically their middle name.

All that to say that your suggestions of Western name, Vietnamese name P is a pretty good idea.

 

[katia]

Mrs. P
Congratulations!
.
I vote for Charlie for a boy, or perhaps Patrick?
I also think Nam is Vietnameese, so it also may be good?

 

[katmari]

All that to say that your suggestions of Western name, Vietnamese name P is a pretty good idea.

Congratulations, again!

My sister's husband is of Japanese/Hawaiian ancestry and they also chose to honor both cultures in naming their two kids -- Western name, Japanese name, last name.

Be prepared for little P to have many board aunties and uncles.

 

[MalAssada]

So, tell me guys... Why does everyone think that it is going to be a boy? Besides me, only one other poster suggested a girl name.

Oh, and CaroLiza, funny you mention Portuguese names. Brazilians follow the tradition (one of my old school friends actually had four surnames!) and something interesting is that there is no such thing as a middle name here. If you want, you can give the child a composed name, like, hmmm, Ana Maria, and that will be the child's first name
Anyway, just thought I would mention that I go by my mother's surname and I am not the only one to do so.

Naming a baby is such an interesting thing!

 

[Mrs. P]

A lot of co-workers and friends think it's going to be a boy. My one co-worker is convinced based on how my belly looks. You guys don't get to see that, so I find it interesting that most of you think it's going to be a boy.

Part of it, I think is because there is currently vintage car wallpaper in the baby room (the room was also my husband's room -- we live in the house he grew up in). His co-workers are horrified that my husband won't remove it even if turns out to be a girl. I actually think it's kind of cute and vintage (the cars are like Model T's not race cars or muscle cars) and I even made the joke that we ought to do a steampunk theme. (And apparently this is a real thing as I found lots of examples when I Googled "Steampunk baby room" )

I also suggested vintage cats. HA!

My husband wants a boy. I can go either way.

 

[TontoK]

My wife's mother and friends had her convinced that our baby was a girl... which is what my wife really wanted.

"Oh, you're carrying like it's a girl" "I can tell from looking at you from the back, it's a girl" and so forth. One of her girlfriends actually talked her into some bizarre home-science experiment to determine gender... it involved peeing in a cup of Drano... sadly, I refused to learn enough about that little moment to report any details...

Our son was born healthy and howling.

On naming... it's fairly traditional in some areas of the American South for the first son to beat his mother's maiden name as his first name. So you get young men with names such as "Johnson Pickett"... "Davis Ellison"... "Anderson Jones"

I like the tradition, but my wife veto'd the idea for our son. She was afraid that if he had a first name "Wallace" it would contribute to "Leave it to Beaver" taglines for life.

 

[thoakun]

Caroliza has written every thing I wanted to say to Mrs.P but my lack of eloquence didn't allow that.
For me, whether the baby is a boy or a girl, he/she will be the most lucky kid for having such a thoughtful, intelligent and graceful mother like Mrs. P. I personally have a little hope for a girl, a female version of Nam Nguyen but then I feel that it's personal discussion.
In many Vietnamese families, the parents combine both the father and mother's last name so that both of them can become a permanent feature in the child's life. For example: Nguyen Tran Nam, Nguyen Nguyen Nam (the chance of both parents sharing the Nguyen last name is very high). That's not an enforced custom, just a family preference.
Btw, I had had a vague feeling that Mrs P may be a writer.. Admire your succinct, economical writing style.