The Two Johns

My newest nephew was born this past Friday at 5:10 am.  My mom and I went to the hospital on Saturday to visit with Jack and my sister.  Jack is the most precious little guy ever. He has the most perfect head, perfect little toes, perfect little face, perfect everything.  He slept the whole time we were there except for the 5 minutes which I got to feed him.  It is amazing how holding a new baby makes me so nervous, like I have never held a baby before. So we are sitting chatting with my sister and her husband when my mom asks ‘what is going on his birth certificate?’ I thought to myself hmmm, did you not get the call that his name is Jack? Anyway my sister replies ‘John.’ Huh??? Did you know that I have a son named John? I know the whole schpeel that Jack is a nickname for John and yadda yadda. Although when I think nickname I think Jen for Jennifer, Joe for Joseph, and so one.  I think it is silly to have 2 different names be one in the same. Now I feel I have to ask everyone that is named Jack if they are Jack or John. Last night I asked someone who I work with because her husband’s name is John and her son’s name is Jack.  Nope, her Jack is Jack not John.But it is what it is and we now have 2 Johns in the family, cousins, 2 out of the 6 grandchildren are John. I am not mad, I just want to say huh????

I do this thing when my sister is pregnant, I go through the dates on the calendar to see if they make sense as an acceptable date of birth. Example: 2-7-08 just does not make sense to me. Yes I know that is someones date of birth, it just does not work for me. 6-20-08 works because you add 6+2=8. Get it? This can work a couple different ways, but I will not bore you with details.  So if you take my sister’s 3rd child’s birth date (6-20-08) and my 3rd child’s birth date (2-20-04) add the month and date and that equals the year they were born. They are also 4 years, 4 months apart. Also, if you add the month and the day of my mom’s birth date, it equals 6 which is the number of grandchildren she has. Gives you something to think about huh?