Wish me luck!! (non-hockey related)

Wow. Very exciting. Good luck. How old is the little dude?

whoa!! Extremely exciting times Aetherial! Best of luck, travel safe and I wish you, your wife and soon-to-be new bundle of joy a safe return...

Keep us all posted.

wprager wrote:

hemlock wrote:

wprager wrote:Vsego horoshevo, as they say down there.

My cousin's name is Alexei, but I've gotta ask, are you going to change his name to Alexander?

Is there a big difference? I have a coworker who's name is Alexander, but when he's with his Russian crowd he goes by Sasha. I dunno.....

Over here Alex tends to be used as the shortened version of Alexei as well as Alexander, but in Russia Alexander becomes Sasha and Alexei becomes Alyosha or Alyoshka. Different names.

Thanks everyone for your well-wishes

The trip went well. We got home last night, exhausted, and sad. It was very difficult to say goodbye to the little guy. My wife was ok. I was a basket case. I don't do goodbye very well

We might not get to see him again for 3-5 months.

He hated me at first (I wasn't even wearing my Leafs jersey!), but got used to me quickly (after discovering I had new toys for him in my backpack every day). He is 2 yrs 5 months now so will be about 2 years 8 months when we get him.

Walter nailed the nick-name thing. He is called Alyosha by everyone. He doesn't even acknowledge the name Aleksei. We have a chance to basically change his name to whatever we want but we always said though that, unless it was a really bad name (like Igor), we would keep it.

So Aleksei it is

Congratulations man! I know 3-5 months is an eternity but I'm sure it will go by quickly.

All the best!