there is so much to write about. about the date night that matt and i went on last night (with sophia) to cheesecake factory...on a gift card from our community group from church. how the gift card came with babysitting...and a group of women who came and cleaned my house while i was away. amazing huh?
or the red umbrella. that is going to go get it's own post. the neighborhood women who gather around the red umbrella every day, and who have been and continue to be a huge support to me. how i had no idea the community i was moving into when i arrived here.
but those things will take a backseat to nicknames. that's right nicknames. we seem to be obsessed with them lately. alaythia especially.
in typical mom fashion, when one of my kids is in trouble their middle name is used. isaiah martin has been said a lot lately. alaythia now thinks when there is something serious to be said, you add 'martin' to it. tonight i heard her say 'daddy martin!' i'm sorry martin family, i know when we named isaiah you were afraid your name might get used this way. but be encouraged, you're a part of our everyday life!
we have been adamant from the beginning that our kids are named what they are because we like those names. you inevitably get asked when you tell your child's name, 'what are you going to call them?' our answer has always been their full name. that's why we were naming them that. sophia was no different. before her arrival we would say, it is not sophie or soph...even though we have zay man and layth. you'd think we would have learned.
alaythia has started the downward slippery slop of a nickname for sophia, the sibling-given names are the ones that stick i'm afraid. 'hi sophia tunia!' at first i didn't know if i heard it right, but she's repeated it several times. i'm sure one day we'll be calling sophia 'tu-tu' and someone will ask us how in the world we got to 'tu-tu' from sophia. we'll trace each nickname in order until we come back to the beginning. it's a lot like how you get 'beej' from maddie, or 'budge' from laura.
matt's even joined in. sopherific (which comes from soporific - which means sleep inducing).
2 comments:
oh my word. this kills me! (and yes, that was our worst fear, that "martin" would be a bad word in isaiah's mind.)
you are so right, it IS the sibling nicknames that stick! (named "beej" when she was just an infant, almost 14 years later, maddie is still the beej.)
so give "tu-tu" a big squeeze for me, will you?
How did Jonathan become Moose? Sometimes, it just happens. And you have NO control over it :)
Love, Aunt Sandi :)
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