this morning we had a fight about baby names. can you believe that? we haven’t talked to a fertility specialist, cracked open a book, or measured a single temperature, and yet we managed to fight about NAMES. for a human being who is probably a few years away from existing. do you think that’s a bad sign?

really, our fight was more about our personality flaws than the actual names. i want to get my way at all costs, and she tends to assume the worst. what the heck else is new. of course in this particular altercation i have my defenses prepared and could explain to you why i think i wasn’t in the wrong…but isn’t that what EVERY fight is like? who ever fights about how the other person is RIGHT?

i will refrain from posting about said names until they are less polemic (the poor kid’s 3^rd grade year?)

not much else had been happening on the baby front. we were waiting to hear back from the one clinic we actually managed to speak to, as their doctor was supposedly out of the country until march 18^th. monday we got a call from “federico” asking if we wanted to set up an appointment. what happened to nadia? she was the nice lady that called the first time and spoke to esther for half an hour and asked good questions and all that..where is nadia?? according to esther, federico was nice as well, but apparently i’m already hyper-sensitive about things like this. sigh.

we’re considering whether or not to make that appointment for a consult. if it’s really expensive, i’m going to go with “no,” but if it’s not too much, it might not be a bad idea to go ahead and spend a few bucks on that, to actually have a moment to lay our thoughts down before a professional and have him or her react to them. you know?

this morning we did some more web searching and filled in info forms for three more clinics. i should go and check esther’s email and see if anyone wrote back….

…nope, nothing yet.