i have a lot of things to blog about today. let me start at the beginning....

we chose the name talan makai because we liked both names. we were never really big on meanings of names, but now i'm not so sure. all throughout my pregnancy my dad kept asking us what talan's name meant. i kept saying i didnt know and getting irritated that he kept asking. i think i should have answered his question now.

when i was in the hospital with talan, brad had the task of calling everyone to let them know talan was here. i guess my dad had called him and asked once again what makai meant. brad went ahead and looked it up after he got off the phone with my dad. then i got a call in the hospital from brad. apparently makai is a japanese name. its meaning? hell. yikes right? but as he searched more he found it was also a hawiian name meaning toward the ocean. we figured we would go with the hawiian meaning.

a couple weeks after talan was born we got his social security card in the mail. i opened it and freaked out. the last 3 digits in his social security card coincidentally were 666. okay...getting freaky now.

i was telling brads mom this. she said how her mother in law had a fit when they named brads brother because his initials were bs. she then said was i was thinking. he lived up to those initials. she was warned and she didnt do anything about it, thought it was no big deal. is this my warning? what if i do nothing? is he going to grow up the same talan no matter what name he has?

to make matters worse we went and visited some distant relatives with brads family when they came into town. one of these distant relatives asked us how we came up with talan as a name. we said we heard it a while back and it stuck around. she then began to tell us about some sci-fi show with something to do with a mother spaceship and a baby spaceship named talan. i dont remember what it was about because all i can remember is the next thing she said. she said, "but dont worry, talan turned out to be an evil spaceship."

it gets freakier...

last night i was on the phone with brads mom. she said she was going through her filing cabinet and stumbled across brads brothers social security card. the same brother with the initials bs. turns out he has 666 on the end of his social security number too. what are the odds of that? i asked her if she was trying to make me feel better. she said she didnt know.

we were really glad to have talan blessed. it was a relief for me with all this weird stuff happening. and when brad gave talan his name during the blessing i felt like everything was going to be okay with him. i felt something tell me i shouldnt worry about it. i know it is just coincidences, but that is the freakiest of coincidences i've ever seen.

huh?

i love walking through a store with talan. people say some weird things when they dont know you're listening. anyway, today talan and i were walking through target. we were in the boys section looking for more long sleeve shirts for ashton. the only other people in the boys section were these two women. probably in their 50's. as i was walking by them i heard one woman say to the other, "this is my first venture into target" . huh? what planet are you from? who has not been in target. craziness.

what was i thinking?

i woke up at 5 this morning. actually talan woke me up at 5. it is now 5:32 and i'm wondering to myself. why didnt i just spend $30 and buy a ninja turtle costume. why do i have to try and be supermom and make one. sure, i have this great sense of pride when i know that i made something for him and he likes it, but is it worth the time and effort? i realized this morning while drifting back to sleep that i forgot to sew the elbow and knee pads onto ashtons shirt and pants. he has to take his costume to school today because his class is going to parade around the neighborhood so it has to be done. of course he wont just let them be tied on like originally planned...that bothers him. but then again so does the mask(which he refuses to wear). what is a ninja turtle costume without the mask? i'll tell ya...it is a turtle wearing arm and knee pads. oh well. i guess these are the kinds of things we do for our kids.

i'm officially a blogger

i am starting this blog because my good friend shane kept bugging me to and she pretty much runs my life so i try to listen. :) i was just sitting at the computer...brad is working...ashton is doing who knows what (I'm not sure I want to know)... and talan is getting some shut eye so he can be rested for bed. i wish i could take a nap before bed. as I was sitting here a bunch of thoughts are running through my head and I realized that a blog would be good. So here I am.
prepare yourself.