The Circus McGurkus: A Conversation With My Boy

How I Named My Blog

Naming my blog was much harder than I expected.I thought about all the stuff I wanted to write about. Gluten-free recipies, adventures with my son, random things that captured my attention, thrify tips, household organization, projects I'm working on, my new career as a stay-at-home mom.... Pretty much whatever crossed my mind. What the heck do you call that? And since every blog title has to be unique all the good ones are already taken. So I pouted about that, and pondered about what would be a good title.

I have secret fantasies that my blog will be really popular. Wildly popular. Followers in the hundreds. People will look forward to my every post and households will be transformed. So naturally I needed a catchy title to make that happen. What should it be....? As it happened, my son's favorite book for the past several months has been If I Ran the Circus by Dr. Suess. Reading it to him for the eleventy billionith time I realized it was a lot like my life. Crazy, optimistic, oftentimes out of control, lots of fun with lots of made up words to keep the story going. Ah, that's what I want my blog to be.

And since I have a secret wish to write a book like Dr. Seuss one day I thought I would start with my blog.

Monday, August 31, 2009

A Conversation With My Boy

Let it go down in history that my baby has uttered his first phrase on August 19, 2009! Of course, I have all the details and I can't wait to share them.

I heard Doodlebug wake up and start talking in his crib. Just your typical baby babble stuff. I walked in his room and leaned over the crib smiling at him. "Hey there Umboo, what're you doing?" (Umboo is one of his favorite things to say, we have no idea what it means but he likes it when we say his words too.) He grinned up at me and replied, "Hey baby!"

Shocked silence. I wasn't expecting that to be his first phrase!