Why Didn’t You Name Me Bill Cosby???
- January 27th, 2008 5:08 pm
Lately, Allie has picked up a very interesting habit that involves completely denying her identity and claiming she is someone else.
Example:
“Allie, come here!”
“I’m not Allie. I’m Hannah!”
” What?”
“Yes, I’m Hannah!”
“Your name isn’t Hannah. It’s Allie.”
“Well, *insert super long pause* you SHOULD have named me Hannah!”
Later that day, she was Uniqua. She was also Ava and Lucy. Every new name involved a 20 questions type game concentric to the fact that I had denied her the faux name at birth.
But her trump card was the 30 minutes she spent as Bill Cosby.
You just can’t argue with a kid who wants to call herself Bill Cosby. Especially if you spent a year of your own life attempting to convince your mother to legally change your name to America. The others in the running were hooker handles like: Candi, Goodi, and Sassi.
I’m sort of glad I stuck with Amanda. sort of…
January 27th, 2008 @ 8:09 pm
I went through a phase like that when I was a kid. I wanted to be Nancy. Like Nancy Drew. Somedays I would like to change my name but Nancy (or Bill Cosby) is not on the shortlist.
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January 27th, 2008 @ 8:53 pm
I never wanted to change my name, but man! I wished I had a middle name when I was in primary school. Later it was quite cool to not have a middle name, but then? It sucked.
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January 27th, 2008 @ 9:28 pm
Oh this made me crack up because my 3 year old always tells me her name is Uniqua! I never really wanted to change my name. There was a year where I insisted everyone call me by my legal name but I changed my tune pretty quick. I am not a fan of my legal name!
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January 27th, 2008 @ 11:16 pm
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January 27th, 2008 @ 11:33 pm
No way dude, Sassi Candy would have been way cooler!!
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January 28th, 2008 @ 3:42 am
I so remember this phase. I wanted to be called Ariel and wouldn’t answer to anything else.
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January 28th, 2008 @ 5:27 am
Oh my….I am still laughing! How cute!
My grandmother told all her friends my name was Heidi when I was first born…whenever I would visit in the years to come people would say hello, and when I told them I was er granddaughter, they would ask, “oh, are you Heidi?” I never understood it…then, 38 years after my birth and being named Laura, my grandfather explained it. He simply said, “Your grandmother thought I would hate that you were named after her mother, my mother-in-law, and so she toldme you were named Heidi, so I went to the Legend and toasted my new granddaughter and told everyone you were named Heidi.”
Ohh….why did I not think of that!!!
Thanks for sharing!!!!
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January 28th, 2008 @ 9:33 am
I was named after my very butch, lesbian cousin. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
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January 28th, 2008 @ 12:44 pm
Backyardigans fan, huh?
That’s too funny. My son went through a brief “choose his own name” phase that usually included his favorite superhero.
Now he gets upset when he has a haircut because he looks like somebody else (his own words). He doesn’t want to be somebody else now.
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January 28th, 2008 @ 12:44 pm
Bill Cosby?! Where do kids get this stuff?
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January 28th, 2008 @ 12:59 pm
I think Mr. Cosby would be flattered. When I was a little boy my nickname was ‘fatboy’. I was actually the skinniest kid on the block, but my Mom managed to hang that one on me when I was about 6 months old (and at that time, I WAS fat) and it stuck. Now that I am an adult, and I really deserve than name ‘fatboy’, everybody just calls me Lou. Go figure.
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January 28th, 2008 @ 1:04 pm
Right now, Maddie is in the “I’m Princess Maddie. Call me that.” She calls me the mean queen. When I was little, I hated my middle name. I wanted to change it, to anything different than what it was. Funny, it’s very similar to what I named Maddie.
January 28th, 2008 @ 2:29 pm
Start calling her Bertha, and I bet she’ll like her name again.
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January 28th, 2008 @ 5:51 pm
Hello. I was looking around on some other sites and i found your link. I love your site, its really cute. I am totally obsessed with reading people’s blogs, lol. That’s funny about your daughter, I would do the same thing as a kid. I would be like “Mom, Can I change my name to Monica?” [that was first] then, i went through the “Bridgette,” stage, then the “Monique,” and the “Malina,” also a very interesting, “Shaniquae,” I guess I was just weird. Now I like the names Abigail, Jordan, Miley, Kiley, and a bunch of others. When I think of my kids names i think about Abigail, Bethany, Isabele,and Kiley. Also, for a boy, Nathan [my best big-brother's name] LOL. Well, I sound like im 4, blabbing on and on, but its what im totally, best at. Yeah. I was a weird kid. You probably think im weird now, telling you about all these names and you dont even know me. Lol.
January 28th, 2008 @ 8:19 pm
Oh my goodness! That’s hilarious! You’ve got quite the character on your hands there! :^D
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January 28th, 2008 @ 11:12 pm
Lol! I still tell my mom she should have named me something different. I almost named my Callie Allie, but I decided to stick that C on there! I have worried that I gave them “bad” names from the time they were born so I really hope that my girls like their names! But that is hilarious.
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January 29th, 2008 @ 12:39 am
Hi there,
This made me laugh, because my 5 year-old really loves the name Madision, and she wants to know why I didn’t name her Madison. I told her it’s because when she was born, she didn’t tell me she liked that name so much, so I didn’t know! Went with Kylie instead. Then she informs me that she couldn’t talk when she was born. She still likes to be called Madision.
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January 29th, 2008 @ 9:18 am
My name was always the source of much amusement. For everyone else….
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January 29th, 2008 @ 10:46 am
the other day, my son named his teddy bear…and himself…turkey! i was supposed to call them both…turkey!!!
kids are weird. really…
xoxo
January 29th, 2008 @ 12:20 pm
What annoyes me even more than the freq name changes is the attitude changes it brings as well.. If my son is Donnie he acts like a tough guy.. if he is batman he is pushing his brother around to be robin (mind you baby brother is 8 months!!) LOL.. Glad to see others suffer through this as well..
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January 30th, 2008 @ 4:18 pm
Garrett went through a short phase where he would ONLY answer to Rico Suave. He is 8, mind you, and has only heard of Rico Suave because, I, his mother, am totally warped.