Q & A

In her last comment Ariel asked:

"I just wanted to ask about the two jacobs. Why did you name ur baby jacob? Isn't it confusing when both ur boys have the same name? And how did u come up with normy? Does it have a meaning? (If u don't mind that is)."

As long as I've known Smoochy he's wanted a son named after him. There is a long line of Jacobs in Smoochy's family and we wanted to carry on the tradition with our firstborn son. Plus, I love the name Jacob so I was glad to give him a namesake. As an added bonus, Smoochy's mom is also named Rebecca; so there are two generations of Jacobs born to Rebeccas! I've always thought that was pretty cool.

But it's not confusing because I really do call my husband Smoochy. Seriously. All the time. That's what he calls me too.

As for Normy, we really call him that as well. It got started as a joke and just stuck. Smoochy's uncle used to call his little brother Norman (not his real name). But Smoochy remembered it differently, and told me that the uncle called all of the cousins Norman regardless of age or sex. That cracked me up. I could just imagine a ton of little kids running around and this uncle shouting, "Hey watch out you little bunch on Normans!" So when Normy was little we used to kid, "Ah he's such a Norman!" Which morphed in to Normy and some how stuck. Normy will respond if you call him that. But he also responds to Jacob as most of our relatives don't like to call him Normy. I would never have named a child Norman, but I love the name now. I just associate it with my gummy grinning fatso of a baby boy!