Leo

First things first: if you don't like what I'm going to name my baby, fine -- but letting me know that once is much better than incessantly telling me things like "Leo Wagner is someone who wears velcro shoes and talks to himself." It's not going to change my opinion -- our baby will be named Leo, and that's that!! If we wanted a name that everyone loved, we would randomly pick something from the top 100 baby names of 2006. Instead, we wanted a name that stands out and has meaning (Leo is a family name) and we picked one, dammit!

Now that the name has been decided, I did the totally nerdy thing and Googled Leo Wagner. I found a dorky singer, US Magistrate Judge and even a guy who was a politician in West Germany and spy for East Germany during the Cold War years, from what I can gather from crappy translations of Germany websites.

This picture, however, was the best find of my Google-palooza:


The caption said "Leo the Italian Sword Swallower," and I love it.

I wonder what our little Leo will grow up to do . . . other than beat up people that (for no good reason!) make fun of his name!