Whats in a Name?

For those of you that don't know, Andrew and i took our time naming Hamish. It took us 9 days to come up with his first name and another week to decide on his middle names.

When he was about 9 months old, i mentioned to Andrew that his Birth Certificate had not arrived, that's when we discovered that we both thought the other one had sent the form in. I was so happy, his middle names had not felt right to me all along andit gave us the chance to change them.

It took us another year to decide on two new middles names and finally we put the from in

Hamish Eli Wren with our hyphenated surname on the end, its a doosy i know but so is Jacks.

Yesterday the birth certificate arrived and i knew the minute i put my hand on that tube that there was a spelling mistake, i opened it with Hamish and sure enough they had missed the 'i' off Eli.

Hamish El Wren,

Its a superhero name, a cat burglar name, a writers name, or a muso's name, its isn't a prime ministers name, or a doctors name or even a mechanics name.

I started to call to find out what to do with a Birth certificate that is wrong and then i thought..... and giggled and thought some more and i have decided to sit on it for a week and see how we feel about it in a few days, after all the issues about Hamish's name is this the cosmos telling us that a name doesn't have to be such a serious thing or is it divine intervention saying that Hamish needs a super hero's name. Any other missing letter would have just been a mistake but to miss the 'i' that could be more than just an accident

So in a week we will know for sure, do we have Hamish Eli Wren or Hamish El (the) Wren, time will tell