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Topic Started: Oct 4 2014, 06:14 AM (1,005 Views)
Caro

My third grandson was born yesterday - little Henry, weighing 7lb 8oz. My son and dil seem to like very traditional names, their first son was called Peter Owen. They haven't chosen a second name for this one yet. I keep suggesting Edmund as they want a name that connects them to Ipswich where they spend a happy year. But it doesn't seem to appeal to them.

A granddaughter would be nice, but I have three sons, my husband was one of three boys, his father was one of three boys, my father was one of four boys, and his father one of five! Not much chance perhaps for a girl.
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Mobson
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Congratulations Caro <bubbly> .... on the safe arrival of your third grandchild...I like the name Henry...thank goodness traditional names are back rather than giving a child the name of an inanimate object or a fruit! Friends have recently named their baby Lily Florence, another have called theirs Margot and another, a set of twins Maud-Rose & Max-Ross. I have two grandchildren, both girls, well young women now...from my daughter...my son, who has just reached 40, remains uncommitted and childless (I think) and that status may well stick! but never say never...so says I!
Edited by Mobson, Oct 4 2014, 09:48 AM.
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<ok> <bubbly>
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dai Cottomy
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congratulations, Caro. I found this poem which although premature, will become more meaningful in a few months' time.

Holding Henry's Hands

Holding Henry’s hands as he
Perambulates the room
Imbues him with the power
Which he cannot quite assume.

He knows the basics – right foot, left,
But balance is elusive;
Desire, though, outpaces skill
So Grandmas are conducive.

But very soon he’ll have the knack;
He won’t need my assistance
And then there’ll come a day
When holding hands will meet resistance.

And so for now we walk and walk,
His hands and mine connected,
Wherever he may lead until
This walking thing’s perfected
Edited by dai Cottomy, Oct 5 2014, 01:47 PM.
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Nice news and lovely for you and your family, Caro.
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Caro

Thank you all. I have noticed those very old-fashioned names coming back, like Ivy and Violet. I suppose people in those days welcomed the use of their traditional names and bemoaned all these flower names! I am waiting for the names of the 1920s to come back and my mother's lovely Dorothy and my grandmother's Barbara to be thought of more favourably.

Thanks very much for that poem, Dai - totally appropriate for me! I might try and learn it off by heart. (I wasn't successful the last time I tried to do that when my husband and I had a 'poetry' month.

Cheers, Caro.
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No grandchildren on the horizon for me, but my third great niece, Alice Clara, was born last week, which makes me a Gruncle 8 times over.

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Congrats Gruncle <bubbly>

With two grand-daughters of child-bearing age, 18 and 21, I shall definitely not be looking towards the horizon for great grandchildren! <scared>
Edited by Mobson, Nov 4 2014, 03:06 PM.
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