Introducing Desmond

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My second nephew is no longer called TBD!! He has been officially named Desmond Mathew Kegham Thomas. Here's a picture of him when he was at the hospital and using the pseudonyms "Z", "TBD Baby" and "Wiggle Worm."

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Anonymous said…
Marcus and Barb couldn’t come up with a name for their first cat, either. I called her Satan (= the Unnamed One) for a while, but they were all like, we’ll name our own cat, loser. And they ended up calling her ‘Kitty’. They can pretend that it is short for ‘Katherine’, but I’m here to tell you that that is a myth.

If the same thing had happened to Desmond, Jessica and Tinu would have to pretend to be much bigger fans of ‘Dirty dancing’ than I believe them to be. And I, for one, would have put him in a corner at every opportunity, just to prove that it could be done.
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