Newt

I was talking about Asher the other day and said something along the lines of, "Oh the other day Newt did such and such..." and the person I was talking to looked at me like I was crazy.

"Who's Newt?" she asked.

It was then that I realized that my son's nickname might be a little confusing to the casual observer, so let me explain.

When Kyle and I got our first sonogram, Kyle and I looked at the pictures and thought, "Our son looks like a lizard!" The picture showed his spine all curled in the fetal position and he looked like, well, like a lizard. Kyle said, "There's my little Newt!"

Since we weren't telling anyone his real name we had picked out, "Newt" stuck and we always just referred to him as our little Newt. I guess old habits die hard.

Now Kyle likes to tell people that he's named after Newt in Lonesome Dove. I guess that works too.