One of Shea's mom's co-workers made us a “Baby Guess Book” which is basically a scrapbook filled with baby-related clip art, poems, and a bunch of spots for family and friends to record their guesses about various aspects of our baby.
I thought I'd do a virtual edition and allow anyone reading the opportunity to play along as well. If you want to try, post a comment with guesses for the following categories:
Birthdate:
Weight:
Sex:
Name:
Future Occupation:
Guess By:
As a bit of help, I can let you know that Shea's official due date is June 6 (although one six-year old cousin we polled guessed “Christmas Day” as his pick anyhow!)
So obviously, guesses can be fun or serious (my favourite guess for a name so far is by one of Shea's cousins who suggested “Heywood”. He thought it would be useful to be able to say: “Hey, would you get me a beer? Hey, would you cut the grass? Hey, would you…”)
Apparently some people make the game into a 50/50-type draw – people pay a loonie for a guess and then the collected money gets split between the baby's education fund and the person guessing the correct birthdate with the weight as a tie-breaker (in true Price Is Right fashion, closest without going over takes it.)
We're not collecting money but to encourage people to guess, I'm going to promise to send the winning guesser their choice of a free copy of one of the following books:
No Safe House – Diane Poulin
Samantha's Secret Room – Lyn Cook (oops, this one is a keeper. Sorry 'bout that.)
The Maze – Monica Hughes
Those books have nothing to do with babies really (I think all are YA titles instead) but if anybody's interested in an excellent book about babies, I'd recommend Big Breath of a Wish by Richard Harrison, a poetry collection that was nominated for the 1999 GG Award.
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