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We had our 19-week ultrasound yesterday, and everything looked great. The little bean is growing a bit faster than expected, so the due date has been pushed up to January 22. I talked Lewis into finding out the sex, but wouldn't you know it... the technician wouldn't tell us. She said, "We don't look at that in Sweden." Not entirely true. One of my coworkers knows she's having a girl, so at least one person in Sweden is looking at it. Oh well, we were going to wait anyway. And I'm a big fan of babies in white. :)
Problem is, there's still a 50/50 chance it's a boy and we HAVE NO BOY NAMES. We need your help! One we have in the running is Oslo (Lewis' choice... that man has the most bizarre taste when it comes to boys names. You should hear some of the others I've vetoed.). Anyway, we like the middle name Buckley (for the late Jeff Buckley) and it needs to sound good with Colón (pronounced like Stallone). Any ideas?
Please pass along ANY you think of. It can't get much worse than Oslo.
Actually it can. A couple in Sweden recently named their kid Metallica.
Alistair.
Although, you could go with one of the greatest scientists of all time ...
If it's a boy, Nikola. A girl, Tesla.
Posted by: Patrice | August 26, 2007 at 08:33 PM
Gus (August)
Good Swedish name and there's such a nice ring to Gus Colón. (random suggestion from California)
Posted by: Sally | August 27, 2007 at 08:29 PM
So exciting to get name suggestions!
Even more exciting to see that people – including random people in California – are reading my blog. Haha!
My dad would kill me if we named our boy Gus. To our family, Gus will always be the overweight Greek owner of The Daily Treat in Ridgewood, NJ. :)
Posted by: ginny | August 28, 2007 at 12:08 AM
Well, I can tell you that you've got at least three Californians browsing your blog (which is a great read, by the way). I'm an American student studying in Lund through December, and my friend, who is also studying here, tipped me off to your blog.
I have a link to your blog from mine, linneainlund.blogspot.com -- hope you don't mind! (That's how the other Californian, Sally, aka my mom, found it!)
Names? I like Anders and Jonas.
Posted by: Linnea | August 28, 2007 at 07:56 AM
I almost named my daughter Bergen so I am all about Oslo. Proof Positive that Swedes can get a little crazy at times: My husband's neice (Swedish) has two younger 1/2 brothers one from her mom and one from her dad. The one is Elvis the other Harley. I don't recommend either of the names though I do believe nobody would ever misprounounce them.
As far as Swedish type names I can tell you most boys at our Swedish school in the States (when we were there) with a Svenglish parentage go by Anders, Nils, or Finn. Alex, Daniel and Erik are good classic names. I won out on the name thing and went with Irish/Welsh names so I can't say I can be mush help there.
Posted by: Lisa | August 28, 2007 at 01:40 PM
Linnea, hi! And thanks so much for linking to my blog. How flattering! My husband is now studying in Lund too. Small world sometimes.
Lisa, that's funny you should mention Harley. That's our cat's name! And Finn is one that I have been liking from the start. I didn't realize it was Swedish... felt Irish... so I thought it might be a mismatch with Colón. But now you have put it back on my radar. Thanks!
Posted by: ginny | August 28, 2007 at 09:32 PM
Ginny,
I haven't visited your blog in over a year, but found you again on LinkedIn. Congratulations! What a wonderful country to be having a baby in.
Names: Ingmar, Axel (my Swedish father-in-law's name). I like Finn, too!
Posted by: Jenny | August 30, 2007 at 08:35 AM