Blasto!

I am begrudgingly admitting that Pat and I have taken to calling the baby Blasto since we don't know a gender yet. When I was just barely pregnant (maybe even before we knew for sure), I was explaining to Pat how after the egg gets fertilized and starts dividing it's called a blastocyst, to which Pat responded "BlastoCysto!". We shortened it to Blasto, and somehow it stuck. I even find myself referring to the baby as Blasto. I was hoping for a cute nickname like Pumpkin since I'm due in October, but apparently it's not meant to be. I can only imagine the looks I'll get when I inadvertently use the nickname at work.