What the sonogram showed!
Our friends Kristin and Jeremy got the results from their sonogram a few days ago. As the headline states, the baby due in November will be male. Obviously Somara and I are gathering up ideas on clothes, toys, etc. for them. They’re into similar things so we know whatever we give has a 99.999% chance of success.
They’ve also got the boy’s name picked out. Benjamin. I will leave out his middle name for security purposes, computer thieves latch on to anything. A decent choice, Hebrew, means “son of the right hand.” At least it’s real, doesn’t sound pretentious or a brand of cigarettes.
Here’s the clincher. Their surname is Derr. Yes, you guessed it. Kristin and Jeremy’s son will be known as Ben Derr. I doubt the kid will be tormented like Ima Hogg, Christian Love (son of Mike Love from the Beach Boys) or Somara’s originally proposed name Brook Lynn Bridge; the mother-in-law wisely vetoed that.
Gift number one to the Derrs is this great sketch by local artist Yehudi Mercado of a baby Bender. More will be coming. I promise, not everything will be prankish or Futurama specific.