Few years ago he met my little niece Anzel who was then a toddler when he stopped by Thailand (where my sister and her family were living) before heading to India for a convention with my mom and bro. My niece who wouldn’t even go near my mom was stalking M around, spying on him and pestering him with “What thisssss? What thisss?” pointing to anything she sees just to get hubby’s attention. I think she was fascinated with M’s caucasian features. M was equally fascinated with her too; enamored with Anzel’s charm and wit, he willingly played with her. He told me he wants to have a child like that in the future.

When we learned that I was pregnant, it was M’s prayer that it will be a girl. I have to admit I didn’t have any gender preference at the beginning. But later on, I joined M in his prayer. So when our doc announced the possibility of my baby being a girl, we were both very happy.

And then came the time we have to decide on what name to give our baby. As I have posted in my other blog, I already came up with several names but when I presented them to M, he didn’t like any of those. Anyway, we’ve finally decided on a mutual choice. But we’re faced with a different dilemma now which is the spelling. He doesn’t like the way the name is spelled. And he said it sounds similar to the Japanese suicidal torpedo called kaiten. Duh! We’ll have to compromise again.