The Ultimate surprise

Danielle has always believed that there are few true surprises in this life. One that modern medicine has eroded away at is the surprise of finding out the gender of your baby at the moment of birth. Another is if she will ever get a vacation without it turning into a history lesson taught by her well meaning but sometimes tiring husband. That one we have no control over but we can and have decided to keep the mystery alive for us until the moment our baby's life begins.

Hence we have two names picked out.

Daniel Laurence
OR
Laura Anne

So that we don't continue to refer to our baby as ItSheHim, surely harming it for life, we have decided on a much easier moniker. We decided to use the first two letters in both names, D and L, in some combination. Problems ensued.

If we used DL this was a abbreviation for a term that is not very conducive to positive happenings in baseball, the Disabled List.

If we chose LD, this also stands for Learning Disability and the lord knows we don't want to saddle our child with that.

So, in our infinite wisdom and incredible love, we have settled on:

DeeLee-Bob

The definition of which is, I believe, an alternative name for something that you are having trouble putting a name on, to be replaced later by its true label. Perfection.