Name the baby sounds fun

Maybe some sort of rules similar to "porn name"?

Like, write down the name of your first sweetheart and a famous animal?

Then tell them "these are potential names for the baby" and all laugh at Bob Lassie and Suzie Jumbo

Trudy, nope. It was decidedly human in nature.

flea, it's been sort of a one step forward-two steps back thing with potty training with Owen. He makes great strides, then does something like this. Needless to say, I'm teetering at wits' end.

And Olivia seems to have ripped up some tea bags. The house smells like Darjeeling.

OWEN! Don't eat the tea!

quizzes, and that name quiz sound perfectly fine, seem like a good choice for "game" that does not cross the too-silly for work line.

I think in my new position I am in charge of department birthday/event recognition. They have been doing b'day things individually, but if new hires or consultants do not have managers that get their b'day info turned in, then they get missed. I think I am going to suggest moving to a monthly cake event for all events that month - that way, even if the event is not on the "official" calendar, it can get recognized.

There's got to be something book related.... Non-advice book with best advice for parents? Favorite novel character name?

We do that at my work, msbelle. We have a rotating list, so every individual employee gets to pick out a lunch once a month. In your case, it could be a cake/cupcake flavor.

I think that's a much better idea, msbelle. We've been having some issues at work with different levels of celebration (or lack thereof) for different people's life events, and it's really sucky.

I am not sure I want to allow choice. Cake Dictator may need to be part of my job title. I kid, I kid. kinda. hmm, I will discuss with the boss, although I do not think this will fall into what he considers "important department business".

eta - yeah, at previous job we had a situation where an email went out asking for donations and giving a time for a "shower" for a pregnant employee. Neither myself, nor the 2 men in the company who had children in the last 2 years had any such event from the office. Needless to say I did not contribute and sent an email. Also there was a tradition of cake for departing employees, but they started being widely different and not always paid for by the office. so bad.

msbelle, I very much prefer a monthly celebration, too.

Crap. My vacuum is trapped in the closet in the den behind some huge boxes of audio-visual equipment. The dustbuster isn't cutting it.

I prefer nothing at all.

But I'm a non-celebrating grouch who doesn't want to be forced to socialize with coworkers.