Furryfrog02 Posted June 6 · Supporter Share Posted June 6 Ave All! I haven't said anything but to just a couple of you, but I wanted to let you all know that Numisforums has a new member - as does the Frog family! Today, we welcomed our 5th (and final!) tadpole to the family. He came flying out at 5am on the dot this morning. He was so eager to arrive that he was actually born in the lobby of the hospital. We barely made it, but thanks to my lead foot and the lack of traffic so early in the morning, we did. Mom and baby are doing great. He is 6lbs 14oz and 20.5in long and healthy as can be. We do not yet have a name since finding one that we like for a 4th boy is rather difficult. Anyone have any thoughts? 😛 I just wanted to drop a quick note here and tell everyone the good news. Now it's time to get FFIV napped, take FFIII to school before getting, FFII from school, and before FFIVN gets home from school. Then we all will go to the hospital so they can meet FFV! 22 1 9 3 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted June 6 · Supporter Share Posted June 6 Congrats to you and your Wife @Furryfrog02 and hello to FFV, welcome to the world. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Conduitt Posted June 6 · Supporter Share Posted June 6 Congratulations! I wouldn't ask people on a coin forum for a name. You'll get things like Julius, Antoninus and Mithridates. 1 4 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPK Posted June 6 · Supporter Share Posted June 6 What a wonderful blessing @Furryfrog02! My heartiest congratulations to you and your family. Good to know that things are well, although sounds like you cut it pretty close! Luckily, I have just the coin to post! 😉 FAUSTINA II, as Augusta under Antoninus Pius AR Denarius (18.79mm, 3.12g, 7h) Struck Dec. AD 147/8. Rome mint Obverse: FAVSTINAE AVG PII AVG FIL, bare-headed and draped bust of Faustina II right, wearing Beckmann Type 1 hairstyle Reverse: LAETITIAE PVBLICAE, Laetitia, draped, standing left, holding diadem in extended right hand and vertical sceptre in left References: RIC III 506a, RCV 4705 Attractively toned with hints of iridescence. A particularly beautiful young portrait of Faustina, struck in high relief. This reverse type proclaiming joy to the public (LAETITIAE PVBLICAE) was struck to commemorate the birth of Faustina's first child, daughter Domitia Faustina, born late in AD 147. From the Dr. Hugh Preston Collection. Ex Dr. Busso Peus Nachfolger, 4/22/2010 11 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Anthos Posted June 6 · Member Share Posted June 6 Congratulations on your new fractional! 🙂 ~ Peter 2 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ominus1 Posted June 6 · Supporter Share Posted June 6 ...Congrats on #5 FF02! 🙂 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Restitutor Posted June 6 · Administrator Share Posted June 6 Congratulations to you both, what a joyous day! 🥳 As for a name, I've always been partial to Aurelian myself 😄 A coin for the happy occasion: 7 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AETHER Posted June 6 · Member Share Posted June 6 Congrats! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted June 6 · Member Share Posted June 6 2 hours ago, Furryfrog02 said: Today, we welcomed our 5th (and final!) How about Think about how you can tell your children about the similarity with this coin. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeandAcre Posted June 6 · Member Share Posted June 6 Huge Congrats, Furryfrog! As a couple and a family, you folks are really an inspiration. ...Thinking @John Conduitt nailed it regarding most of us being any good for names! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hrefn Posted June 6 · Supporter Share Posted June 6 Vercingetorix Belisarius Frog. Seriously, hearty congratulations. 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPK Posted June 6 · Supporter Share Posted June 6 5 minutes ago, Hrefn said: Vercingetorix Belisarius Frog. A solid, respectable name that's got some dignity to it. Sounds good to me! 😁 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spargrodan Posted June 6 · Member Share Posted June 6 Big congratulations! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor DonnaML Posted June 7 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted June 7 Congratulations! Obviously, Quintus. 3 1 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furryfrog02 Posted June 7 · Supporter Author Share Posted June 7 I suggested Aurelian, Hadrian, and Theodosius. All were vetoed lol. 1 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor Theodosius Posted June 7 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted June 7 Congratulations! I second Theodosius! 🙂 How about Telephantos, Kimon, or Euainetos? John 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furryfrog02 Posted June 7 · Supporter Author Share Posted June 7 We have a name: Theodore. Not quite Theodosius....but I hope our resident @Theodosiuswon't mind 😛 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qcumbor Posted June 7 · Supporter Share Posted June 7 Congrats FF for the new tadpole. I'm obviously late to the party but would have suggested Leo. My son's second name is Aurelian, he's never complained about it 🙂 Q 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furryfrog02 Posted June 7 · Supporter Author Share Posted June 7 FFIII said this morning that he has decided to change the baby's name from Theodore to....Victory. I can't say I mind the change lol. He was vetoed though 😛 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alegandron Posted June 7 · Supporter Share Posted June 7 LOL, getting the kids all figgerred out! Here is a Froggy in honor of the new Tadpole! Luceria AES Grave Anonymous 217-215 BCE Uncia 7.35g Frog-Corn Ear pellet retrograde L T-V 285 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted June 7 · Member Share Posted June 7 You should stick to a simple name, nothing extremely out of the ordinary, like Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus. 1 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parthicus Posted June 7 · Member Share Posted June 7 Congrats @Furryfrog02on the newest heir. I was going to suggest naming him Khusro, so you'd never run out of alternate spellings of his name (Khosro, Khosrau, Chosroes, Xusro, ...) but I guess Theodore will do. I found a coin showing Rana Imperatrix with her first four offspring: 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furryfrog02 Posted June 8 · Supporter Author Share Posted June 8 A paltry 4 children? Psh. Amateur...lol We have a sestertius depecting that same reverse that was gifted to the frog family when FFIV was born. My daughter laid claim to it and it resides in her collection. 🙂 I'm currently at the hospital so I can't access my pictures unfortunately. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeandAcre Posted June 8 · Member Share Posted June 8 By way of the kind of caveat you don't need --only since you and Mrs. FF have the requisite common sense-- I was named 'Jonathan,' too early for that not to have been an 'exotic' name. ...Fast-forward to grade school. Let's go down the list. Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Jonathan Bing (a frankly Dumb traditional kids' song they made us sing in class). And (Oh, No, maybe worst) Jonathan Winters. On a good day, some kids would just call me 'Johnny,' or, only better, Joe-Nathan. Anyway, coolness on you for not getting into anything that's even the prevailing equivalent of anything as fraught as that. ...Oh, Expletive of Choice, I just Googied (sic) Theodore, and found out that it's the Greek for 'Gift of God.' Can't have enough of that. Right, the Hebrew for 'Jonathan' means more or less the same thing. Subdued, but sustained chuckling ensues. You folks get all the best from Anyone I know. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcosx Posted June 8 · Member Share Posted June 8 I seriously wanted one of my son's to be named Thales, but Thali unfortunately it means a plate of food in Gujarati. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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