As I was dropping kids off to Brett's office the other night, Giggles said to me, and not for the first time mind you, "when I'm an adult can I change my name?"
"Of course you can change your name when you're an adult, but why would you want to?" I asked.
"Because I hate my name. I want to change it to something like Spike."
Spike. Really?
"Spike?" I said. "That's a name people give their dogs," I tell him.
"They do?" he said disappointed.
"Yep. Remember the movie Sinbad?" I reminded him.
"Oh yeah!" his brothers pipe in, "the dog's name WAS Spike."
So I go through all of the boys' full names and explain how each first and middle name was chosen so each boy knows how special their name is. After my extensive explanation Giggles says, "so I can change my name when I grow up?"
"Yep," I say with an inward sigh.
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