I'm just an Earth-bound misfit, I...
Despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of people and those odd little tests seem to think that we are having a boy, the only names that we have wholly decided on so far are for girls. We have two of them, in fact.
And if you think I'm sharing those names with you, you're off your rocker. They be locked up tighter than a steel bear trap. Those are OURS!
But I do find it funny just how difficult we've found it to be to come up with boys names. There is always some reason or another why we don't want to use this name or that.
- Oh, that name reminds me of the kid that bullied me in grade school.
- That one is the same name as that jerk at work.
- That one makes for a terrible acronym when you look at the initials.
- This one is totally like that kid I student taught that used to run around yelling, "boys have penises, girls have vaginas!" (okay, I took that one from Kindergarten Cop; but I totally would not name my son after him)
After a while, this whole weird naming thing that you see going on in Hollywood starts to make sense.
- Cocoa? Awesome! Who doesn't love Cocoa, be it the warm liquid variety or the variant of Pebbles cereal? It's awesome. And, as a result, David Arquette and Courtney Cox's kid receives instant love based solely on their name.
- Apple? I love apples! I love apple picking in the fall! I love warm apple cider! Apple pie, along with baseball, are the very definition of Americana! Therefore, Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin's kid is the one every other kid wants to be friends with because they all love apples!
- Blue Ivy? Okay, that one's just messed up. Unless, of course, Beyonce and Jay-Z were planning to raise Batman's next arch nemesis.
I think Katie and I need to do something similar to this. We need to take a word or name of a product or other loved item and turn it into our son's name.
To this end, I've come up with a few ideas and I'd like to run them by you:
- Caramel - Warm and ooey gooey good! A natural fit to be best friends with Apple Paltrow-Martin.
- Raisin - I don't care what people say, I like raisins. With peanut butter on a celery stick? It reeks of a great Halloween costume.
- Chewy - Chewy Apgar. Need I say more. Maybe he'll grow up to co-pilot the Millennium Falcon.
- Granola - Yes, my plan is for our son to be an environmental lawyer... or a tree-hugging activist. Whatevs.
- Nougat - This one was suggested by my brother and sister-in-law. If their next child is a boy, I'm more than willing to give it back to them. Nephew Nougat has a nice ring to it.
Okay, so I'm hungry right now. Sue me.
To our future kid if it turns out to be a son and he happens to read this... no, I was never actually going to call you any of these. Unless your first words are a Wookiee-esque snarl, then it's natch.
There are websites like The Darwin Awards that dedicate themselves to chronicling the stupidest deaths in history. People that were clearly so dumb they didn't deserve to go on.
But is there a site that reports on history's best deaths?
Yes, I firmly believe there are bad and good ways to leave this Earth-bound existence. One such good way was recently discovered by Robert Gene White of Texas who was pronounced dead at the age of 67 after being found unresponsive at a strip club.
Why is that so great? He expired before paying off a series of lap dances he received throughout the night.
Not that I want to die in a seedy strip club, but well played, Bobby. Well played.
How about Lego? Sturdy, fits together well with others, and fun to play with!
Posted by: Odie | Friday, 18 May 2012 at 07:08 AM
Ohhhhhhh... now we're thinking!
Posted by: kapgar | Friday, 18 May 2012 at 08:09 AM
Sharing names is a bad idea because yeah, people always have a reaction and usually it's NOT HELPFUL. Darcy and I have only agreed on girl names too (for a someday baby) so we kind of hope that's what we get though I'd just be happy if I could get pregnant and have a baby (I'm getting old).
Posted by: Sizzle | Friday, 18 May 2012 at 10:35 AM
Ha ha ha. I like Odie's suggestion. And Raisin for some reason.
I totally get why people don't want to share their baby names. But then a few of our friends have acted like the name was going to be EPIC when it was a plain jane (but not jane) name. And another friend was recently mad that someone from her high school named their kid the same name. Really? Really?! Ha ha.
Posted by: kilax | Friday, 18 May 2012 at 11:01 AM
You're not old. And I think you'd be a great mom.
Posted by: kapgar | Friday, 18 May 2012 at 11:18 AM
Our names aren't epic. We just don't want other people running with them. Yanno?
Posted by: kapgar | Friday, 18 May 2012 at 11:19 AM
Sweets and I very easily came up with a boy name ... but, even when Gavin was born, we still hadn't settled on a girl's name. Maybe you guys know something without even needing medical intervention. =)
Posted by: Nilsa @ SoMi Speaks | Friday, 18 May 2012 at 02:32 PM
Oh we had the girls' names even before Katie was pregnant.
Posted by: kapgar | Friday, 18 May 2012 at 03:19 PM
How about Darth?
Posted by: Suzanne Apgar | Friday, 18 May 2012 at 03:40 PM
I think switching to a name such as that is more appropriate come the teenage years.
Posted by: kapgar | Friday, 18 May 2012 at 03:51 PM
I say Luke, Hans, or R2D2.
Also please do not name your child after food.
Posted by: Marie | Tuesday, 22 May 2012 at 08:37 AM
No food??? Why not???
Posted by: kapgar | Tuesday, 22 May 2012 at 12:43 PM
You should consider coming up with names AFTER you've curbed your hunger. Just sayin.. ;-)
Dying at a strip club for a 67 yr old would be a good way to go. I wonder if they put that in his obit. ;-)
Posted by: Marty Mankins | Monday, 28 May 2012 at 08:53 AM
Hell, I'd have it engraved on my headstone.
Posted by: kapgar | Monday, 28 May 2012 at 01:02 PM