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After weeks of anticipation we discovered that we are pregnant with a boy!  We were really expecting another girl, so this came as quite a surprise.  I felt a little more comfortable having another girl because we already had some practice with Morgan.  But now I am a little more nervous.  I feel like Sarah  will have a little more influence in Morgan's life as she gets older, and now I will have a little more influence in the new baby's life.  Maybe that is just the remnants of a sexist culture I haven't quite flushed out of my system.  Maybe it is because I am a man and know what it is like to be a boy.  With a girl I could just be blissfully ignorant.

We haven't really even talked about boy names.  Elijah keeps coming up, but I am not quite sold on doing the whole Biblical name thing yet.  If it was a girl Sarah almost had me sold on Rahab Magdeline - the two prostitutes associated with Jesus.  That would have been a very good counter-cultural, upside down grace kind of name.

I mentioned  Pax to Sarah the other day and she seemed to like it.  Pax is latin for Peace.  It would be really cool to have the first and middle name a combo dedicated to the peace of a certain region, like  'Pax Darfur' or 'Pax Iraq'.  However, I found out from a friend that Pax is also Angelina Jolie's kid's name.  We would be taking a chance if we went with Pax.  You never know what Angelina's kid will turn out like.  However, if we had a really good middle name too we could change horses if we saw your typical child-star personality emerging from Pax Jolie.  

Maybe, 'Elijah Pax'.

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