Non-physiological sign:

Yesterday was the first day that we dared have a post-GOF conversation regarding both names and physical features we hope the As Yet Unconceived Hypothetical Kid should have.

Dave: What about ‘Anders’ for a boy?
Gretchen: It’s not…. BAD….
Dave: But not ANDY, it would have to stay Anders.
Gretchen: Yeah, not Andy, because then that would make Andy [my oldest friend] "Big Andy." And he wouldn’t like that, because it would make him sound fat.
Dave: Or, "old Andy."
Gretchen: Or, "Big, Old, Gay Andy." Yeah, no Andy.

Also, we’ve determined that AYUHK should have Dave’s 20/20 vision, metabolism, and lack of allergies, and my smartness and sense of hearing.  Of course, any AYUHK will be 100 percent geek.  That’s just a given.

And no, no consensus on names yet.  He likes girl names that begin with or end with "A," and I think those are too cutesy.  I like strong girl names that end in a consonant, but I’ll compromise with a nickname that ends in A. Boy names, gah, he would prefer "anything with an umlaut," thanks to years of listening to Scandinavian metal and reading the liner notes, and the German surname that our kids will have.  Any name that I like seems to be rising on the popularity curve, and that sort of bugs me, or, it doesn’t sound good with the surname.

Oh well. Who knows when we’ll even need this information, anyway.