When I first visited my two kittens before bringing them home, all they could do was squeak and chirp. Deb figured out meowing very quickly and loudly when I brought them home. Dexter still has yet to let out a solid MEEEOOOOW.

At its rehearsal dinner.

He's brushing up on looking down and working on his roar. Which, so far, is a very uninspiring thing.

After dinner. With guests and ice cream.

I am squeeing so hard that I am about to punch something. Someone give me that god damn baby cat before I break my own fist.

can we show the lion this video when it is older to embarass it?

DON’T even get me started on Thai names.

I was actually thinking. If a teacher has so much experience that she already knows that kids with ethnic names are always teased can’t she add a small talk/game in one of her classes where she stressed the importance of not making fun of kids because of an unusual name? I’m not saying that would fix everything but I…

Wow. You sound like just the kind of judgy-judgerton we need in the classroom! Who would think that someone from Thailand might give their kid a Thai name!?

Well Jaime and Mercedes aren’t really unusual, new or strange names. Even in the US. Unless you simply have an agenda, of course.

I don’t understand this fashion of giving male names to girls. If you have a girl, have the decency of calling her Macaroon.

My dad gave me what he thought was an affectionate nickname, but is actually a derogatory term for Mexicans. It started as “beanie” and “bean-bean” and I’ll just let you guess what it evolved into.

Jesus Maria is a legitimate name in Spanish. The parents probably do not do it for their ego. It’s a name in their culture. If they have not been in the US for long, they may not know that people here tease kids based on foreign names. I think you are being too hard on the parents. As the U.S. becomes more…

I have a Native American name. I was born in BC, where people with names like “Sundance” were common, so I didn’t have a problem with it.

I love a that’s what she said. Every. Single. Time.

Everyone will call my child Liz for short and when someone asks if her full name is Elizabeth she will have to answer “No, it’s Lizard.”

That’ll be dandy.

Well I suppose that’s a feather in your cap.

By god, my hypothetical future daughter will be going by Balzagoth, Dissolver of Innocents, and she will LIKE IT.

I CAN’T STOP I DON’T KNOW HOW IT WORKS GOOD-BYE FOLKS!!