in an nytimes article about the gender-switching phenomenon in baby names, jordan wins out as a peacable kingdom existing between boys who hate being called leslie and girls who thought that only girls could be angels.
maybe we should really consider jordan. i mean, if the kid has been listening to us at all over the past 37 weeks (!!), then s/he thinks that jordan is really his/her name.
here's the link--enjoy!
BABY NAMES ARTICLE
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ted and erin had a jordan and named it eve--how could this happen?
a glossary of terms
- baba: anything small or something for which we hold affection. has come to mean, quite literally, *the* baba who is the subject of this blog
- babski: baba with an eastern european flair. from watching all the nannies in prague wheel around their charges in bugaboo strollers. they (the babas) simply became babskis.
- cell bundle: what we called the babski, pre-jordan and before the early ultrasound.
- evangeline lucinda: the cutest baby ever.
- fussbot: nomenclature re: newborn existential struggle.
- jordan: the placeholder name for the babski. we thought it was a funny non-gendered name, and monica's enthusiasm for it was infectious
- morgan: the other non-gendered placeholder name that didn't make the final cut. ted couldn't stop saying "big 'm,' little organ," so we scrapped it in favor of jordan.
- pupsandpups: erin and jordan, combined. ted's invention.
- voldy: proud papa.
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