Top Ten Nicknames

A few folks have been asking us what nickname we will be calling Nicholas. We've been trying out a few things, but we are going to try to stick with the full name of Nicholas for as long as we can.

Here are the top ten nicknames so far:

10) Nick
9) Big Boy
8) Nikola (pronounced like "Ricola")
7) Kicky Nicky
6) Little Guy
5) Baby Brother
4) Nikolai
3) Little Saint Nick
2) Sir Craps-a-lot
1) Little Man

Baby Pool Winners

Thanks to all who entered the baby pool. There wasn't much time between the baby pool post and when Nicholas was born, so there were only 6 (official) entries. I'm discounting my brother Steven's entry because he posted his guess 7 minutes after we posted that we were at the hospital.

The winner is... Jae Kim who guessed a boy on the 26th. He also correctly guessed a big baby (just not big enough). Jae wins a Chinese lunch the next Wednesday he can get to Greenbelt to collect it. Mark Olsen gets the consolation prize (a fortune cookie?) for getting the date closest, but he guessed girl.

There was another pool at a family party on New Year's Eve (12/31/06) - only the gender and weight were guessed. No one went over 9 pounds, but the person who guessed the heaviest weight who also thought boy was... Steven Mocko with 8 pounds 9 ounces. Congrats Steve!

First Week

Everyone's still doing well after the first week - although Mom and Dad are very tired. Nicholas seems to like to be awake during the night and sleep during the day. He has been a busy boy, already attending two birthday parties and spending plenty of time with his grandparents. At the one-week checkup at the doctor's office, Nicholas weighed in at 8 pounds 12 ounces. As he didn't seem much thinner than when we left the hospital, we weren't concerned that this weight was almost 2 pounds lighter than his birth weight. Just an hour after the doctor, we had an appointment at the hospital for paperwork, and they weighed him there at 9 pounds 10 ounces. I plan on bringing a 10-pound dumbbell to the next office visit to prove that their infant scale needs to be re-calibrated. :)