Kiss My Belly.....It's Irish!!!

Let me clarify that. It's not my actual belly that's Irish, it's the baby inside of my belly. Well, part Irish at least. In reality he's a snuggly mutt of European descent, but many of Logan's ancestors are Irish. (Hence our last name....McKenna.) When we found out we were having a boy Logan got all excited about the idea of giving our little boy a cool Irish first name to go with our Irish last name. The day after the ultrasound I received a message while at work with Logan saying that he had found a name that he loved for our little bambino. (He didn't actually use that word. That's all me.) I called him back and asked him what the name was, and the resulting conversation went something like this:
Logan: "I'm not telling you."
Sarah: "Um....what???"
Logan: "I'm not telling you until we are face to face and you have eaten and are in a really good mood. I want everything to be perfect so that you'll have an open mind, because I really want it. It's the only name that I have ever heard that I think is as cool as my own."
Is this guy the cutest or what?!?! Before he revealed the name to me at home he explained that it was an old Irish name and that it is extremely popular in Ireland and Scotland, but it hasn't caught on over here yet. (This was verified by my Scottish friends from my camp counselor days.) I'll admit, when he told me the name I did just what everyone else has done when I told it to them since that time. I made a face and said, "What is it? How do you spell that?" He was DEVASTATED by my initial reaction. So much so that I immediately put on a happy, reassuring face and tried to convince him that I didn't mean to react that way. I really liked it and would consider it, I just hadn't heard it before. Sort of true. Since that time he has been wearing down my reserve bit by bit, and he has finally gotten me liking it and convinced that this is the name of the baby in my belly. We went through a stage where we had a list of four names we liked, and everyday we would try a new one out and see if it fit. No matter what name's day it was he would "accidentally" use his preferred name several times to "get it into my head that this was the baby's REAL name." He finds himself to be very, very sneaky. :) So, without any further fanfare, here it is, our first son's name:

Callum Michael McKenna

If you hate it....get over it. Or call him Cal. :)


Best Thing Since I Last Blogged: Logan found out that he got all honors on yet another round of tests! That's all of them so far this year! Way to go, honey!

Worst Thing Since I Last Blogged: We figured out that our radiators were on all of this time....we had just turned off the knobs last year. Whoops. To top it off, the majorly ghetto knob in the bathroom popped right off the radiator at some point today, and since we were both gone all day we came home to an apartment filled with the steam that was gushing from that radiator for who knows how many hours, condensing on the ceilings and wrinkling up several of my scrapbook pages that I just finished, among other things. Annoying!