blessings

Happy happy

  • My arrival of my friend Carrie’s baby, the already-sophisticated J. Finnigan. (Weeks ago now, but I’m still happy about it.)
  • Poppy singing “Old MacDonald” to herself while she plays. (“Old MacDonald had farm. E-I-E-I-O. And on that farm — piggies! E-I-E-I-O.”)
  • Buying a present for Rockford.
  • Being invited to our friends’ big BBQ.
  • Poppy saying “I see popcorn!” to suggest that she’d like an afternoon snack.
  • Poppy playing with Marsha, and Marsha playing back rather than high-tailing it upstairs.
  • Chocolate-chip brownies.
  • Poppy requesting “Danny’s Song” over and over again.
  • Our friend Chris’s new Web site.
    • Family matters

    And the answer is …

    (a) Roger Rockford Jr.
    (b) Julian Wrigley
    (c) Petey Wyeth
    (d) Raleigh Sinclair

    Good job, everyone who picked (c). We decided on Pete a few weeks ago, but we hadn’t settled on a middle name. Well, I thought we had, but Rockford apparently wasn’t crazy about it. Ironic, since it was “Rockford.” Hm.

    Anyway, Rockford’s grandmother suggested Wyatt a few days ago. It was his great-great-great-grandfather’s name. (Maybe even more greats than that.) Somehow, I misheard it as “Wyeth” and passed it on that way to Rockford. That hit a chord with him right away, and it’s grown on me. So Pete Wyeth it is!

    Family matters

    A.K.A.

    The last time we had a “code name” for the baby, it ended up as the baby’s real name. That won’t be the case this time, though! We do have a name picked out, and it isn’t Chester.

    One of the following is Chester’s real name. (Of course, it’s subject to change.) Care to hazard a guess?

    (a) Roger Rockford Jr.
    (b) Julian Wrigley
    (c) Pete Wyeth
    (d) Raleigh Sinclair