# I Missed You All and We Have a Suprise! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 19, 2002, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-missed-you-all-and-we-have-a-suprise/99061 "2002-03-19T16:53:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-missed-you-all-and-we-have-a-suprise/99061/41 "2002-03-20T12:00:28Z")
I suggest Tot of Tatertot. This is great news. really great news. I hope everything gos well. You know where we are if you need us. As for wetting the baby’s head, Where and When? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Spiny\_Norman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Spiny\_Norman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiny_Norman)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-missed-you-all-and-we-have-a-suprise/99061/42 "2002-03-20T12:04:55Z")
- another Doperkid, bound for a charmed life. And it’s so good to see you on the boards again, **tater**. Now, don’t go AWOL on us again! S. Norman ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-missed-you-all-and-we-have-a-suprise/99061/43 "2002-03-20T12:43:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TwistofFate \* > \*\*I suggest Tot of Tatertot \*\* nah. After 20 or 30 3AM feedinds/tantrums. I’m sure you will prfer to call him the **Spud**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tatertot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-missed-you-all-and-we-have-a-suprise/99061/44 "2002-03-20T15:37:09Z")
These days I’m lucky if I remember to put on shoes before I leave the house, so forgive me if I seem a little spacy (plus, I had a really good post yesterday that just disappeared and I had to pee really badly so I couldn’t type it all out again). Little Freckle-O is due October 14, **Damhna** insists that she’s a girl, but I’m not so sure. For those of you who’ve known me for a while and know all about my past difficulties with pregnancies, this has been officially classed as a high risk pregnancy (meaning I have to go to the doctor about twice as much and get constantly tested, poked and prodded while being told to rest and relax) but so far all is good. I was going to wait until the second trimester to tell everyone, but after seeing the baby’s heartbeat this weekend on ultrasound I changed my mind. Don’t know why, I just did. About the baby’s name: Right now, s/he is called Freckle. This is all my fault because I made the mistake of telling his/her father that s/he was “no bigger than one of your freckles”. Somehow this stuck…pray God it doesn’t stick permanently, poor kid. And one more thing: What is all this talk about going out for pints when you know good and well that I can’t drink right now?!?!?! Not to mention that crowded smoky places make me vomit right now?!?! Ack, you men! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![tatertot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-missed-you-all-and-we-have-a-suprise/99061/45 "2002-03-20T15:47:55Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by wring \* > **and allow me to be among the first to offer up baby gift - there’s this dandy toaster that I seem to be missing…** _ > > \*\* Good lord woman, I wrote your name on the damn thing, what more do you want from me. I mean, can you imagine the grilling that went on everytime someone visited my kitchen? “Who’s this wring person and why do you have her toaster?” “Um, okay, well I don’t actually really know her or where she lives but I told her she could have a toaster and since I couldn’t mail it, not knowing where she lives and all, so this was the next best thing.” The worst was my mom, since she’s the one who actually bought me the toaster to begin with and I got in BIG TROUBLE for writing on the toaster she spent her GOOD MONEY like I thought her GOOD MONEY grew on trees. Oh, and for the record, for some reason the toaster is living in Hungary with my ex-husband’s ex, the au pair. How she got custody of the 220 volt appliances I’ll never know. Um…what are we talking about again? ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-missed-you-all-and-we-have-a-suprise/99061/46 "2002-03-20T15:55:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tatertot \* > \*\*And one more thing: What is all this talk about going out for pints when you know good and well that I can’t drink right now?!?!?! Not to mention that crowded smoky places make me vomit right now?!?! Ack, you men! 😛 \*\* This is highly amusing coming from the girl who couldn’t hold down 1/3 of a pint of Guinness on a filled stomach and an empty uterus. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tatertot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-missed-you-all-and-we-have-a-suprise/99061/47 "2002-03-20T17:20:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > \*\*This is highly amusing coming from the girl who couldn’t hold down 1/3 of a pint of Guinness on a filled stomach and an empty uterus. 😃 \*\* Excuse me…I can drink at least _half_ a pint thankyouverymuch. Okay \ you got me…the real reason I’m having this baby is not because it would be a tangible expression of the love Paul and I share and a symbol of our hope for humanity but because it was getting really embarrassing living in Dublin and not being able to drink like a fish. I figure this way, I get nine months of not having to make excuses for myself…heck, if I breastfeed I can stretch it out for a few years! ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-missed-you-all-and-we-have-a-suprise/99061/48 "2002-03-21T02:19:18Z")
Ahhh, a new little Doper. Be sure to post pictures of the baby once she’s born. Congrats, Tater and Damhna!!! ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-missed-you-all-and-we-have-a-suprise/99061/49 "2002-03-21T07:44:07Z")
Congratulations! Best wishes for the lil’freckle! ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-missed-you-all-and-we-have-a-suprise/99061/50 "2002-03-21T08:18:20Z")
**CONGRATULATIONS ON THE BABY!** I hope you have a smooth pregnancy; and just don’t name your kid anything TOO weird! (believe me, I’ve got thousands of BAD baby names in this book I have here… and good ones too, of course… but it’s the BAD ones that stick in your head) Too bad this post couldn’t be my 50th on this board… fitting for two milestones to be celebrated at once! _breaks out the brandy, champagne, and wine_ Oh, wait a minute, you can’t drink. Never mind, I’ll jut hve some in your honor! Keep us posted! ---
**Author:** ![Damhna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Damhna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damhna)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-missed-you-all-and-we-have-a-suprise/99061/51 "2002-03-27T21:17:19Z")
Late to the partyas per usual , sorry 'bout that but I’ve been resting. Thanks everyone for the happy thoughts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-missed-you-all-and-we-have-a-suprise/99061.md?page=2)