You may be asking yourselves...

Why "the Truffle". Why called the baby "the Truffle" or "Truffle". I ask you, "why not?". Ok, that was a stupid answer, but I am trying not to edit what I write too much. I'm letting this be kind of freeform.

Anyway, it is bascially a way of identifying the unborn baby with a name. We don't know if the baby is a boy or girl yet, therefore, we could not have possibly finalized names. Anyway, it really has spawned from two co-workers/friends of mine who developed "tags" for their unborn childern. For one guy, Andy (and Tammy), it was a way of introducing the upcoming baby to his daughter. They used "baby mouse". For the second guy, Brian (and Dawn), they referred to their unborn child as "Guppy". You see, their last name is Fisher--get it, Guppy Fisher--get it, its a play on words--get it guppy, a small fish, Fisher, one who catches fish, you see what they are doing there--using a word that means small fish and their last name is Fisher--Ha, I love it.

Anywho....Rebecca and I thought that using a cute nomer was a better idea than referring to the child as "embryo" or "fetus", or "in-utero fetus due in September". Can you imagine the future conversations:

Jeff: Hey Bec, how is "in-utero fetus due in September" doing today?
Rebecca: Fine, "in-utero fetus due in September" is moving around a whole bunch.
Jeff: Really? I want to feel "in-utero fetus due in September" kick.

You could see how this would at some point start to become tiresome. In fact, we would probably end up doing like the military and shortening it to an acronym: (IUFDIS). Now, try pronouncing that.

Phonically, it is "Eye--oof--dis". Now, IUFDIS, is not nearly as cute as something like......Truffle.

Plus, one day we were making truffles and we thought that would be cute to call our baby until he/she was born.

Hence, we are Waiting for Truffle.