| Do Celebrity Parents Impact Baby Name Statistics?
We spoke to BabyCenter, the number one online destination for new and expecting moms, which has the largest, most comprehensive baby name database in the world: Over 100,000 names, origins and meanings. For 2008, Emma has returned to the top of the Girl Name list after slipping to number 2 last year, and Aiden continues its reign at the top of the Boys list for the third year in a row! We all know celebs consistently push the envelope when it comes to picking a name for their newborns. Will the name Bronx be in the top 10 names for 2009 because of Ashlee and Pete Wentz? The name Jayden – Britney Spears' and Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith's name choice — is #2 this year. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt named one of their newest additions Vivienne. Vivienne is ranked #1128 on BabyCenter and its Latin origin means "Alive." Will Vivienne climb the charts next year? Nicole Richie and Joel Madden decided on Harlow for their baby girl, turning one in just a few weeks.
Barack Obama - world leader and dog owner
It's actually looking after it that makes having a real baby seem only fractionally more difficult than a Daily Star crossword. I got a puppy last year (a proper labrador without the poodle bit) and the only way I kept doing my day job was to dispense with that part of life known as "sleeping". At 11pm when the Mr and Mrs Obama have walked it, fed it, gathered up armfuls of turds, developed an OCD handwashing habit, comforted their daughters whose dolls have mangled heads and put their chewed-up DVD collection in the bin, the President might be able to turn his attention to other stuff such as the economy or the Middle East. But that's the point at which the puppy will start howling and so, because he seems a nice man, he will take a duvet and go downstairs and spend the rest of the night cuddling a small, whimpering thing which keeps covering him in wee.
Champagne: A quick-and-dirty buying guide
I was a late convert to Vilmart's style, but the rounded texture it can show when young is lost like baby fat as precision and complexity take over. I'll pretty much buy Vilmart whenever I see it, if only because of its rarity and depth. (This is how some people feel about the utterly cultish Jacques Selosse, but we don't see much Selosse in these parts.) One of Vilmart's lesser known stars is its nonvintage rosé, the Cuvee Rubis, our New Year's Eve Champagne from last year. The nonvintage Rubis brings a fruitier edge and intensity to the subtle house style, like strawberries through a fiber optic cable. And that brings us to the smile-inducing topic of Rosé Champagne. The big discovery this year was Mandois, a small house in Pierry that takes a similar oak-minded approach as Vilmart, though with sometimes different results.
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