Eighty by eight.  Low probability of rain.  Humidity at 90%.  Summer.

Opened up the Sunday paper past the headliner article about the guy who’s been arrested twenty-seven times since 1999, read a few other articles, got to the birth announcements.  It’s the big hospital across the river this week with forty-eight new babies to forty-seven new parents.  Twenty-five babies with unmarried parents.  Yeah, yeah, I know…  “We don’t need a piece of paper to show we’re in a committed relationship”.  Until the baby daddy finds out that a screaming kid eats seriously into the free time and then there’s nothing…  Wait!  There hasn’t been anything in decades.  More ‘blended families’ and single moms with absent dads…  It’s getting hot, I’m in a handbasket, and where did you say this path goes?  And seven babies to mommies who didn’t even have a clue as to who the daddy is.

Let’s get started before I get too depressed.

Chiquito(I’m sooo smart I named my daughter after a banana) R. apostrophicates her daughter, little Lai’Lynei Janae.  Baby daddy?  An archaic superfluous construct of male-centric society.

Anthony & Sydnee’ H. give their daughter THREE names, show us little Marlee-Mychael Olivia.

Jolee B. knows that the letter ‘y’ just drips sophistication, so her son is Paztyn Edward.

Kelly E. & Omeka B. tag a daughter with Myracle Monae.  The ‘myracle’ is if my tax dollars aren’t supporting this kid.

Also subscribing to the ”y’ denotes a level of sophistication’ motif, Kyle ‘n’ Brandi(with an ‘i’!) H. do a daughter, Kendyl Kate.

Miss Ashley S. shows her daughter, little Baylee Lynn.

Kelly M. & Helena T. triple up on thier daughter, little Rhylie Marie Zena.

Ronald & Unek(Just like everybody else) C. show their unek daughter, little Hollidae Jeanette.

Another triple shows up as Dustin ‘n’ Misty B. show their son, Asher Cruz Creed.

Michael M. & Kami F. give their son one of those manly tradesman names, Sawyer James.

Trent & Kacie R. show their innovation when they name their daughter Sicilia Bell because they don’t want her lumped in with all those plain ol’ Cecilias out there.

Mike & Tamara C. know that the letter ‘K’ shows huge sophistication in a name, so their son is Karson James.

And that’s the list for the week.