As already noted by Jay over at the Zero Boss, we had the Allen family, all seven of them, stay at our house last night (because their house had suddenly been infested with rats). It was quite the experience.
The kids ranged in age from 20 months to 11 years, and they were all pretty well-behaved, which in its own way is the scary part. I say "scary" because it was still chaos! Five kids running around, all doing their own thing seemed quite overwhelming to us, even though their parents had pretty good control over them at all times. I shudder to think what five poorly behaved kids would be like.
In the morning, I took three of them outside to play with the basketball and run around. We had fun, even if I was the only one who seemed to notice how cold out it was.
Despite what Jay said, I don't think I'll be heading out for a vasectomy tomorrow. The offices are closed on Saturdays, after all. :-)
Posted by Tom Nugent at April 8, 2005 07:43 PMthat must have been quite a crowd! I wanted to say hi... my first daughter is named dorothy too! (like jay, we have many kids...7!) my dorothy is now 21 (still living at home) and my youngest is 7...
Posted by: lisa at April 8, 2005 09:28 PMWow, that's cool. The only other Dorothy we've met who wasn't an octogenarian (or older!) was a woman in her mid-forties at a local bank branch. Three of our (six) grandmothers were named Dorothy, which made name choice for our little girl pretty easy.
In your case, was it less or more common to name a child 'Dorothy' 21 years ago?
Posted by: Tom Nugent at April 9, 2005 12:32 PM