I debated for a couple of days which hero I wanted baby boy #2 to be named after. I already knew his first hero should be his Daddy. So we decided on Christopher for the first name. Since Kal-el's first name is Thomas, after Poppa we wanted to do the same thing with this little guy and do the superhero middle name. I had alot of narrowing down to do because our children go by their middle names so it had to be just right! I thought up until the very day of the gender reveal that his name would be "Xavier" after Professior Charles Xavier. To keep it from getting complicated we were going to call him "Zav". I loved the sound of it but something else kept nagging at me.
* *Warning unless you are a fan this next line of thought will make absolutely ZERO since to you **
Well, sure professior X is the ring leader so to speak and without him the Xmen may not of ever been formed. And there is the fact that he's an Omega level mutant..one of just a handful deemed powerful enough to carry that title. Then there are the social parallels that surround the comic and the endless references/ comparions of Professior X's to Martin Luther King. Yes, it's more complicated then capes and flying.
However in the end there were a couple of things that still bugged me about naming a child after this character. For starters Professior X, although extreamly powerful is so kind that sometimes he appears a bit bland and somewhat preachy. He is also confined to a wheelchair, which I think is wonderful as far as teaching children about disabilties but I just couldn't see him as a good fit name wise compared to some of the others who have so much fire and such intriguing back stories. Then there was the fact that I liked the nickname "Zav" so much better than the actual full name "Xavier" which started to seem really drawn out to me.
I then considered my favorite male X-man character, Wolverine...whos real name is Logan. I just couldn't decide if I liked the name. It almost sounded a little country/western to me at first. The more I thought about it the more I liked it and it just made more since with the type of characters I love in the series. Besides prefering a certain name is purely psychological and largely based on association and I soon realised that everytime I heard the name Logan I immediately thought of the character not how I thought the name sounded outside of that. I was already attached to the name in such a positive way. Chris and I slept on it and both came to the same conclusion...Wolverine is such a bad%$$, anti-authority/anti-hero character with so much swagger how could we not go with him! Umm ok maybe those were my words but regardless we were in total agreement and decided to go with Logan! I am posting his 20 week ultrasound photo below. You can already tell he favors Kal-el a good bit. Looks like this little guy also has his Mommy's lips just like his big brother...other than that you really can't tell alot about a blurry black and white photo :)
Brothers
This first picture is Logan..he is trying to suck his little thumb..he was all curled up in the ultrasound. I was wrong when I thought he had a foot in my bladder ..he actually has BOTH feet in my bladder lol. nice :) He also played coy and was quiet shy during the ultrasound. He was such a gentleman opting to cover himself with his little hands when we were searching to locate his gender. Ahhem..unlike his big brother whos ultrasound picture would make you blush! lol
This second picture is of our current wild child..knowing Kal-el there is no telling what
he was up to when he was in the womb..looks kinda like he's "walking like an egyptian" or perhaps doing the "Superman" dance lol probably the latter :)
