I am the father to the three most wonderful girls in the world. Now, come June and with God’s mercy, I will be the father of a son. My excitement grows daily. I think that I didn’t know how much I wanted a son. I’ve been spoiled by three daughters – why would I want anything else? Occasionally though, as I thought of Kim’s pregnancy late last year, there were these moments of deep, deep hope for a son…even a longing.<\/p>\n
Part of that came from family history. I am an only son. My father is an only son and my grandfather too. We Kuos don’t have lots-o-boys and I didn’t want the “family name” to “end” with me – granted there are<\/span> many, many, many millions of Kuos around the world…just not this Kuo. The other part though was purely selfish – I wanted a son to do father-son sorts of things and to experience them as boys and men experience them… to catch a fish, throw a ball, jump off of things, throw snowballs at each other and to deeply, intuitively understand what that means to us as males. I love doing these things with my girls – love<\/span> doing them. But a son… I guess a son is just a bit more like me.<\/p>\n I fear writing these words because I fear that I will sound sexist. If I do, however, it is only because I lack the words to express what I mean.<\/p>\n Finally, this – the challenge of naming a boy with a last name of Kuo. Consider:<\/p>\n Chris Kuo – sounds like Crisco<\/p>\n Teddy Kuo – teddy bear with a Chinese touch?<\/p>\n Mike Kuo – micro?<\/p>\n Mack Kuo – macro?<\/p>\n Noah Kuo – Noah Kuo-a?<\/p>\n Hmmmm… still a couple months to go<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am the father to the three most wonderful girls in the world. Now, come June and with God’s mercy, I will be the father of a son. My excitement grows daily. I think that I didn’t know how much I wanted a son. I’ve been spoiled by three daughters – why would I want…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"yoast_head":"\n