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I laid (lay?) awake in bed last night until 3am just thinking about stuff like...

• I really hope our washing machine is fixed for real this time. Repair attempts (under warranty) have been made three times in the past month. I've been too chicken to run a load to see if it works. While laundromats are an option, they are not my favorite for several reasons-- the chiefest being that I used to work at one while I was in college. Laundry by the pound for college kids is gross.

• There are a couple of elderly widows at church that I would like to become better friends with. Not only because friendships are a blessing that runs both ways, but because old people are just fun, y'all. They have the most interesting stories and will often surprise you with a sharp and quirky sense of humor!
  

• My sister Lele is prego and due in January. Her and her husband have taken to calling the baby different names according to its growth-- names such as sesame seed, blueberry, garbanzo, and lemon. The only problem with that is that I keep picturing her having a lemon in her belly!
  
  I know that is an absolute impossibility because I've seen her ultrasound pictures.
  
  When I was prego, we simply called the baby "baby" until we came up with their name.
  
  (Try to not be in too much awe of my creativity-- I know it is simply astounding.)
  
  1.) Did you have any special names for the little peanut-chicklet-baby in your belly?
  
  2.) Do you ever speak in baby talk? Y'know, that annoyingly high pitched ridiculous voice that no baby could possibly understand? Once in a blue moon I catch myself speaking like that and must teach myself a lesson by washing my mouth out with soap.

It's a wonder I ever get any sleep around here, what with all the profound and intellectual contemplations that bombard me in the dark hours of the night.

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Posted by 40winkzzz

without looking it up, i'm pretty sure the correct word in this context would be "lay" (past tense of "lie"). laid would be past tense of the *other* lay, a transitive verb requiring a direct object (ie "lay the book on the table"). again, i didn't actually look it up, but i'm pretty sure that's how it is. lay/lie is weird and i think only we editor /english-lover types really care.

to answer your questions:
(1) we didn't find out the gender of any of our babies before birth (i know, that's weird), so we had to call them *something* even after we'd chosen names.
**i think we called our first one "baby", or the slightly corrupted form, "bb".
**the 2nd one we called "jeffrey", even tho that was not one of the names we had picked. (i liked jeffrey but hated the nickname "jeff", so our boy name was jordan. not knowing whether we'd actually have a jordan or an elizabeth, i simply called him/her jeffrey, which bugged my mom no end. "stop calling that baby jeffrey! what if it's a girl?" it was, btw.)
**womb-name for my 3rd was "banana", as in ben-anna, a combination of two of the names we liked.
**the 4th kid, i don't really remember. by that time our oldest were 10 & 7 and prone to calling him/her whatever names *they* liked at the time. i think we did that too. we probably reverted to "baby" a lot, too.

(2) baby talk-- i used some baby talk (like, "it's time for a bathy-bath!"), but not in a baby voice. sometimes we still use it. the other day my husband told my 13-y/o to "go potty before we leave".

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Posted by Anonymous

I think I avoided doing the baby talk thing... I think. :) I may have slipped here or there and talked like that!

We mostly called our boys "baby" while they were in my belly too :)

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Posted by Anonymous

oops! didn't mean to remain anonymous... I am Jessica. My blog is www.paulsbride.blogspot.com

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Posted by Anonymous

Hi Marsha :-)

We always refered to our babies as babies until we knew what we were having, then we just called them my whatever name we picked out. But, after they were born, then came the nicknames... "punkin' pie, "mr. long toes," "sweet pea," etc...lol!

I hate to admit it, but YES, I catch myself talking in baby talk ALL the time!!! I always was annoyed hearing other people do this, but when you become a parent it just seems to happen! What's worse is when you catch yourself speaking this way without kids in tow!!! It's moments like these that make me realize I don't get enough "me" time. :-)

Amy
www.learningatourhouse.wordpress.com

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