the vynsane asylum

I've been sworn to secrecy until yesterday, but Mrs Anarky is expecting our firstborn in October. No idea whether it'll be a boy or girl yet, but I'm happy either way.

(She assures me it's mine, but if it comes out and says, "Is anyone eating any cheese? You'd better not be! You don't have a license! All hell dooshe!" then I'm out the door.)

Congrats, dude. This is your first one, right?

I congratulate you Chux. Tell her you want more children so that the sex doesn't dry up...in more ways than one.

I trust it will be given a cool geek inspired name?

I'm giving my firstborn the name Indiana. I love the character and my last name is Jones, so I must do it.

In the immortal words of Pavement: "Wowee Zowee"!!!!!! Nice work, Anarky!!!! I can't wait to see pictures of the first baby born in Southern California to be given the first name Jubilation in real life!!!!

I guess if it's a boy, you could name it Jubileo... I guess that would be the masculine version???

Oh, duh, you DID said firstborn. He'll be getting some on a regular basis until the baby is born. After that, it may not be until Christmas.

My wife wants a third kid. Why? Because we both have 2 brothers. Her sales line is "don't you want to try for a boy?" Yeah, sure I would have liked a boy, but the odds are still 50/50, and since I'm a Buffalo Bills fan, I don't believe in the whole "third times the charm" thing.

Congrats!!! Prepare for one heck of a ride. Our first will be a year old in a couple of months. It seems like I just found out the Mrs. was knocked up. And the sex doesn't come to a screeching halt, I've consistently been on the weekend plan for a good 6 months.

Awesome. Every home should have one.

Congrats, Chux.With my wife being preggers with our first (and only) kids (litter), I feel I can offer some sage advice:

*If she wants it, go to the fucking store and get it.
*Hold her hair while she throws up. It's not that big of a deal and it's a good shot at earning extra brownie points.
*Go to the doctor's appointments with her. It can be boring (especially the first one, which tends to last the longest), but you learn alot and it's a good time to ask all the stupid shit you don't feel like looking up online.
*don't be offended when she asks you to "take your snoring ass to the couch!!!" because she's trying to sleep.

Again, congrats dude. I wish you both the best.

Congrats dude. Tis great news. Hopefully its a boy and he could share in all the hobies you enjoy. Kids are always a great reason to scope out the toy section with every trip to the store.

Awesome news. Congrats!
Everyone else has pretty much said it all, so I don't want to sound like a broken record.

Thanks for the well wishes, everyone. We're both pretty ecstactic about things so far. There's only one little guy/girl in there (we got to see an ultrasound on Friday, which came as a surprise since neither of us knew they could do them at 10 weeks!), but we'll be stoked no matter as long as it doesn't turn out to be a hermaphrodite with two heads. We've been trying for almost three years already.

Thanks for the advice as well, FF1138. Although....

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">*If she wants it, go to the fucking store and get it.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Duh. She had me whipped already. (Although in exchange for being whipped, she calls me from Target and says, "Now is it Yoda that you need?")

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">*Hold her hair while she throws up. It's not that big of a deal and it's a good shot at earning extra brownie points.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Thank god that somehow she's one of the very few women who hasn't had any morning sickness. She occasionally gets light nausea, but no puking. Maybe it'll come later, but everything we've read indicated you either get it early on or not at all.

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">*Go to the doctor's appointments with her. It can be boring (especially the first one, which tends to last the longest), but you learn alot and it's a good time to ask all the stupid shit you don't feel like looking up online.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Already ahead of you. I've been going to all hers so far, and she insisted on coming to mine. (Long story short, the docs are trying to determine if I have or carry a normally innocuous genetic disorder that runs in my family and can cause heart problems in extreme cases.)

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">*don't be offended when she asks you to "take your snoring ass to the couch!!!" because she's trying to sleep.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

No comment. Everyone in both our families sound like chainsaws, except me for some reason. I'm being totally honest here.

El Chuxter, Jr. has a nice ring to it. So what genre homage name will you sneak past the missus to christen the baby with?

I named my oldest Victoria Lynn after Martin Riggs dead wife in Lethal Weapon. (No, not really, but that was her name....)

And the three year old is named Benjamin, presumably after his Great-Grandfather, but we all know it's because he's my little Ben Kenobi.

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by anarky</i>
we got to see an ultrasound on Friday, which came as a surprise since neither of us knew they could do them at 10 weeks!
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">That's awesome! We had our first done at 8 weeks. Having it done that early is gonna come in handy down the road because it makes the due date much more relevant.

As for the names, don't cave to the peer pressure. If it were up to Slick or Rocketboy, they'd be named Luke and Leia or Anakin and Padme. And thank God peaches doesn't know me or else he'd probably kill me for naming our son Hayden.[:D]

Just don't name him fucking Sebastian Xavier (SURNAME), like my University roommate did. We bugged the shit out of him about that one.... why not just call him "Kick my Ass"?

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by CaptainSolo1138</i>
<br />]As for the names, don't cave to the peer pressure. If it were up to Slick or Rocketboy, they'd be named Luke and Leia or Anakin and Padme.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Don't put me in that category. If you named the kids that I'd make sure those would be the only kids you ever have.
As it is, the wife wants to name our son (whenever/if we have one) Luke, but he would be named after her Grandpa. I don't want to spend the rest of my life explaining that Star Wars had nothing to do with the name.
That, and I hate the name Luke.