Every blogger has them, but I am stumped.
What do I call my kids to protect their relative anonymity? Until recently I
had been going with wee man and baby boy both of which are not really that
great, far too non descriptive and generic. I was thinking of going for first
initial – that works well for my first son, I get to call him Master C, but
with my second son we end up with Mister T. Which is a little corny. Plus
the whole thing is a little bit 'done to death'
I live in envy of my friend and fellow blogger who writes about composing music and sustainable living. Her children are D major and D minor. Too perfect for words. I thought about copying but C major and T minor isn’t going to work no matter how cute it sounds.
I live in envy of my friend and fellow blogger who writes about composing music and sustainable living. Her children are D major and D minor. Too perfect for words. I thought about copying but C major and T minor isn’t going to work no matter how cute it sounds.
Then there are the various bloggers who
have cute little nicknames, which invariably have an ‘awwwwww’ response. Except
my sons don’t have cute nicknames, at least not blog appropriate ones and they
change every other week so it doesn’t really work for me. My husband suggested
Drop-bear and marshmallow, I almost died of cute but I’m not quite sure.
I guess I could use their real names, two
of my favourite bloggers do, The Feminist Breeder and Donnelle. But I don’t
know if I can do that, while I realise that the world of blogging is anything
but private I feel I owe my sons some modicum of their own identity. Besides
which I don’t know if I am up to being criticised by random internet strangers
for Ruining Their Lives Forever.
I toyed with the idea of naming them as per
their favourite activity, so for my 3yr old that would be ‘dragun slayer’ and
for my 5 month old that would be ‘boob eater’, though these things are bound to
change and then do I update them? Could they become lego-man and bike-rider or
even door-slammer and tantrum-lord.
I have been toying with Longshanks and
Shortstack but worry that describing them will limit them somehow. It’s not
like shortstack is going to be short for the rest of his life and it seems a
bit unfair to label them with physical attributes they may outgrow.
Thing 1 and Thing 2 crossed my mind but I dismissed it almost immediately for lack of originality, Wocket and Sneetch got dismissed for almost identical reasons, though Lorax is appealing.
I asked my 3 year old what the names should be, he rattled off his full name and address and this his brothers full name with alacrity. Apparently my husband has been teaching him to do this in case he gets lost, I love my husband, especially when he thinks of things like this. Now we just have to hope our wee man doesn’t go declaring his full name and address to kiddy snatchers or burglars. At least he didn’t get the middle names quite right which would make it harder for someone to steal his identity, turns out his middle name is ‘Jacket’ and his brothers middle name is ‘Brick’ could these work? I don’t know
Maybe you could help me out?
Thing 1 and Thing 2 crossed my mind but I dismissed it almost immediately for lack of originality, Wocket and Sneetch got dismissed for almost identical reasons, though Lorax is appealing.
I asked my 3 year old what the names should be, he rattled off his full name and address and this his brothers full name with alacrity. Apparently my husband has been teaching him to do this in case he gets lost, I love my husband, especially when he thinks of things like this. Now we just have to hope our wee man doesn’t go declaring his full name and address to kiddy snatchers or burglars. At least he didn’t get the middle names quite right which would make it harder for someone to steal his identity, turns out his middle name is ‘Jacket’ and his brothers middle name is ‘Brick’ could these work? I don’t know
Maybe you could help me out?
