Sunday in the Park with Dash......or Zoe......

As week 7 comes to an end we take Huckleberry up to the recently opened dog park in Culver City. It's a hot Sunday and there aren't many other dogs but it's a good time to get out. We also just got our bikes back from the shop so Beth can tool around the neighborhood and I can get back to riding.
I made a delicious Chicken Mole the other day. I'm not sure if it was the cloves, the cinnamon, the cocoa, or a combination of all of it but just the smell of it made Beth want to gag. In fact, I had to brush my teeth immediately afterward since she could smell it on my breath from 4 feet away.
Exhaustion? Check. Melancholy? Check. Fatigue? Check. So far this pregnancy couldn't BE more normal.
All she seems to want to eat is macaroni, rice and tuna. Unless she wants something else but it's never what I have cooked. So, it's a crapshoot.
BUT! We have pretty much settled on names.
For a boy: Dashiell Zave Lulu. The Dashiell because we wanted something literary AND easily shortened. Dash is cool and Dashiell is...well...dashing. Zave is the name that Liz made up for her eye color, which were blueish and hazel-ish. (But there is a small chance that Algernon will be the middle name.....very small)
For a girl: Zoe Mina Lulu. Zoe is way popular, yes, we know. Not all that original, but, like Zave, it has a "Z" that represents Lizzie for me and it is a fun name. Zoe's are cute. Short. Sexy, spunky, fun, smart, etc. The middle name is the name that Liz wanted to name her daughter. Once again she thought she made it up. She was heartbroken to know that it had been featured in Bram Stoker's Dracula. It is also Persian for "daisy" and was extremely popular in the US in the late 1800's. So, it reps Liz, and is literary at the same time. As is Zoe, in a way. Salinger's Zooey is spelled differently but I don't know anyone who pronounces it that way.
So, there ya have it. The race is on. Dash or Zoe. Zave vs. Mina.
We'll know in about two weeks.