Unique Names

For the past two weeks now, I have been going to a speech clinic and a private school to get my clinical hours for my speech therapist license. It has been a lot of fun for me, each time I go, I get more and more excited about working in the profession. I have met many different kids who have a variety of special needs. Most of them are just the sweetest cutest little things ever. Having met so many different kids, I have come across some quite interesting names that make you wonder where the parents came up with that name.

First: Identical twin girls, BOTH have autism, interesting I know, even more interesting is that their names are Liz- Beth and Liz- Eth..... Huh? alrighty then? The names aren't weird but they sound the same. Thats just confusing for the parents. My mom gets tongue tied with mine and my sisters names sometimes and our names sound nothing a like.

Second: I have never met another Conrad other than my husband, just yesterday I met a cute little six year old that shook my hand and said, " Hi, my name is Conrad Jessie Danger Flores but you can call me Conrad Jessie" Ha! so cute... Danger though? I don't know about that. I think he should go by Jessie Danger, that sounds pretty cool. Conrad (my husband) thinks its a pretty sweet name :D

Third and probably most interesting is a cute little six year old boy whos name is........Wait for it...... . Heaven-Lee-Peace Omega Duran. Heaven-Lee-Peace is his first name and Omega is his middle name. Apparently he has a second middle name but the therapist said there wasn't enough room to put it on his records. Hmmmmm? Interseting... I bet there is no one else in the world who has his name so that is pretty cool.

I am sure I will come across many more unique names such as these. I wonder how people come up with these names?

Blog Background OCD and Conrads Apostle Name

My name is Hailey Mickelsen and I have blog background OCD(If that is even the right term you would call it). My last day at my old job was on wednesday and I don't start my new job til Monday so I had a few days of freedom and A LOT of time on my hands. I spent the first half of my day on thursday changing around my blog background. I was just not liking anything. I went through probably 20 different backgrounds, maybe more, I don't know it felt like a lot. Some of you were probably looking at my blog during that time thinking what the crap is going on! just make up your mind already. I finally found one I am satisfied with :) So hopefully it will stay like this for awhile.

So Conrad insisted that I change our title from Conrad and Hailey to W. Conrad and Hailey. Conrad is actually his middle name. His first name is Wesley. He went by Wes all the way up until high school and then when he went to college he decided to go by Conrad instead. His family and some of his friends from high school still call him Wes sometimes. It is weird for me to hear them call him that because I never knew him as Wes. He says he is proud of his roots and always signs his name as W. Conrad. He also jokes that it is his apostle name ha! I do have to agree it does sound like an apostle name.

A little update on us, Conrad is doing well in school, he said this year is not as stressful as last year. His midterms are coming up soon so I probably won't be seeing much of him in the next couple of weeks. Me, nothing much but my new job which I already talked about. Life is good:)