27 May 2008

Baby Names

Always ones to plan ahead, my children had the following conversation, which I report verbatim:

Evan: What are we going to name our new baby?

Mom (thinking): What new baby?

Evan: We should come up with some names for when we have babies.

[I will clarify that my children know they can't have babies with each other. They've asked if they can marry each other. I told them "no" unless they live in Kentucky. Evan's had his heart set on a particular girl in his class, whom he adores.]

Flynn: Ummm, Sunshine?

Evan: That's good. What else?

Flynn: Treepod!

Evan: That's a great name, Sunshine Treepod! Hey, Mom, isn't that a great name?

Mom: Mmm-hmmm, yeah, that's a good one alright. (thinking to herself: maybe if it's 1967. Then: Good Lord, my children are hippies. What's a "treepod"?) Is this a boy's name or a girl's?

Evan: A boy.

Flynn: A girl.

No "Emma"'s or "Matthew"'s for my kids, apparently.

Nope.

It's Sunshine Treepod, which has a certain panache, I guess.

5 comments:

Sarah said...

I love it. I think it's a good reason to have another kid. Sunshine TREEPOD!

by the by, I now have 2 emails to you (both about robot pjs, I think!) that are caught in some undeliverable hell...I just keep getting updates on how they're not being accepted by comcast or whatever. just so you know....

Leighann of Multi-Minding Mom said...

It rolls off the tongue easily. As long as they don't misspell it. I think it works.

The Fearless Freak said...

That's great. The first thing I thought when I read sunshine was 'Good Lord, she's a hippy" and that was before I even got to the tree pod part! :)

Unknown said...

well, I hear that Angelina Jolie is looking for names for her twins ... very original.

Anonymous said...

ah yes- well, your grandchild Sunshine Treepod can hang with my future grandchild "Nightingale" if it's a girl or Kevin if it's a boy. Kevin. I was expecting Puck or Ender (we have a cousin named Ender actually) but no. Why? So the boy wouldn't get beaten up for having a weird name.

It was great seeing you again on Saturday