BAAAAHHH---REEECCHHH!  The question:  What is worse than having a baby who is transverse?

How about a follow up from the mechanic letting you know that it will cost over $3,000 to fix the things wrong with your car?

Did I mention that Nathan is breech?

Nathan Clark.  That's his name.  And there is a whole crowd of people out there that already know that who seemed to be genuinely disturbed by the choice of that name.  Like I named the kid Mortimer or Xavier.  Not bad names in and of themselves.  They just don't go very well with my husband's (shall we call it) unusual last name. My friend Mary didn't even hide her dislike of our choice of the name Nathan. 

M:  Gosh, that will be really confusing for the kids.  Ethan and Nathan.  WOW!  A lifetime of getting them confused.

For the record, I am 30-something years old and I can count on ONE HAND (you read that right) the amount of times my father only went through TWO of my sisters names before he got mine right.  We could not have names that are more different from each other.  It's not like our parents named us Kristen, Karen, Kaitlin and Keiran.  So I maintain that if my father couldn't even get our very different names right then what's the big deal with Ethan and Nathan?  That and my husband has been calling him Nathan since my 5 month ultrasound so it seems a little cruel to call him something different.  Even if that bad boy comes out looking like a Mortimer, Nathan it is.

So, to the person who shall remain nameless, we probably don't need to have that "Nathan, or if you decide to name him something else, of course you can, I mean you don't have to name him Nathan so we really don't even need to call him Nathan yet" for every conversation in the last 3 months, his name is Nathan.  I know we are throwing you off since the last person in the family who had a baby didn't name him for 2 1/2 weeks after he was born. 

And while we are discussing it, we did NOT name Ethan after the Ethan Allen Furniture Store.  Please stop telling people that.