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Chapter 36 – What's in a name – The Generation Gap

"I can't believe I let you two talk me into watching that rubbish!" Gerry is sulking in case you hadn't guessed, Catlin is staying with us for the weekend to help with the packing for the move and we have just finished watching the latest Twilight movie. Granted it wouldn't have been my first choice either but it wasn't so bad I mean a girl can't get too much of seeing Robert Patterson running around half naked can she?

"Oh stop moaning and go make us some tea and toast before bed Dad! You're such a pensioner at times!" I'm biting my lip really, really trying not to laugh as he opens his mouth to answer her then closes it again with a sigh as he gets up and I grab his arm pulling him toward me and kissing him gently. "Ewww enough you two!"

"Catlin stop acting like a five year old those babies weren't the immaculate conception you know." Now he's the one laughing he loves embarrassing her when she's being a typical teenager. "Sandra sweetheart do you want regular tea or herbal?"

"Herbal please regular at this time of night and your son's will have me up half the night running to the loo."

"Sandra can I ask you something?" He's disappeared into the kitchen and left us alone and now Catlin is looking at me like she really wants to ask something but doesn't know if she should. Even after all this time I'm never really sure where the step motherly line lies what I should answer and what I should tell her to ask Jane or Gerry about.

"Of course you can what's on your mind?" Please let this be an easy question.

"Does it feel weird? Dad says the babies are kicking and stuff now does it feel weird to have something like that happening?" Thank god for that I can deal with those sort of questions and frankly she couldn't have picked a better time to ask. The boys have been as unimpressed with the movie choice as their father and have been making their feelings known by kicking up a storm.

"It feels a little strange but in a good way, do you want to feel them move they're playing football in there at the minute." She's looking wide eyed at me as she nods and joins me on the sofas I rest her hand on my tummy over my t-shirt.

"Oh my god! That has to hurt!"

"No it doesn't I promise it's nice to feel them move around it means I know they're ok and getting bigger like they should." Gerry's back with a tray of mugs and plates of toast and is taking in the scene in front of him.

"Are they having their nightly kick around?"

"Yeah and Catlin was wondering if it felt weird to have actual people moving around inside me." He's raised and amused eyebrow at me and I've shot him a warning glance this is not the time for jokes.

"So what do you think honey do think your baby brothers are getting on ok in there?" I forget sometimes that cheeky and all as he can be he still knows how to say the right things to his girls.

"They must be getting really big they can really kick dad." She's reluctantly moved her hand and taken the mug of tea and plate of toast he's handed her as we fall quiet each lost in our own thoughts. "So you guys haven't told me if you've decided what my little bros are going to be called, don't pick things that are lame I think I should help that way at least they'll not be embarrassed by them when they get older.

Shit he's looking smugly at me now since I've been refusing to go back to the name debate until after we move.

"Well I have wanted to talk about it but your wicked stepmother won't she keeps telling me we've plenty of time." Oh I'll get him for that wicked stepmother crack just wait till I get him upstairs. "if she has her way they'll be picking their own names because they'll be walking, talking and going to university before we even talk about it."

"Don't exaggerate all I said was let's focus on the move and talk about it after!"

"Aw Sandra you need to be thinking about it now I've had some ideas." Great tag teaming again I'll have no choice but to listen now.

"What did you have in mind?" Oh he's so annoying when he's smug.

"Well since you said you wouldn't name them after movie stars or pop stars I had to think a little more out of the box." Oh this should be good. "What about Orion?"

"What?" He staring at me in complete shock now but he helped her dig the hole he's currently getting buried in so he can get himself out of it because if he thinks I'm helping he can think again.

"Orion as in the constellation of Orion, astrological cosmic names are really popular at the minute and Orion Standing sounds great." Come on Gerry explain why no child of ours will be called after a constellation.

"I don't think so sweetheart whatever we pick we have to tell people and I can't imagine either of us saying we picked that. What else have you got?"

"Skyler, I was looking at this baby name website and its lovely it means scholar and I was thinking if one was called Skyler then the other one could be called Soren it means brightest star." Oh my god I should really step in here but I'm not ready to let him off the hook just yet.

"Skyler and Soren Standing? No Catlin we've already rules out names beginning with S and even if we hadn't I don't think either of those would make the list. Come on you're a bright girl you must have something better than that."

"Ok, ok, what about Spike?" Ok now I have to step in.

"No sorry Catlin but no child of mine will be named after one of the goons, it's not happening." Gerry's laughing and she's looking at me like I'm speaking ancient Greek or something.

"Sandra she's too young to remember the goons I get where you're coming from though he was never my favourite goon I always preferred Harry Sycome!"

"You two are just weird but ok I have one more what about London? You know it's 2012 the whole Olympics thing is just over and the jubilee and everything and I know you said no celebrity connection but Paris Hilton and Brooklyn Beckham we're both named after were they were conceived so what about London?"

"Well…" Time for this conversation to come to an end before it gets any more ridiculous and I know just how to stop it. I'm looking at Gerry with a just go with me stare and I hope he gets it. "That's a nice idea and very patriotic and all but we couldn't really be sure they were conceived here. I mean we were at that cold case management conference in Liverpool that would have been around the right time and…."

"Yeah and a couple of weeks before that we were in Italy for a week." He's catching on and trying really hard not to laugh. "Then there was that weekend we went to Cornwall for your birthday Sandra…"

"Oh my god enough! Guys! Serious overshare! I'm going to bed to …. Well think of anything hat will wipe those images from my head good night."

Works every time, gross her out enough and she'll do anything to get away even if she was on a mission to get one of her names accepted.

"What the hell where does she come up with this stuff?" he's snuggled beside me on the sofa and I can't help but laugh. He forgets that were all his daughters, but particular Catlin, are concerned there is a distinct generation gap between us and them but I'm not going to point that our because it's just dawned on me that if it's this bad now what will it be like by the time these two are 18?