The future and my children's children

Sounds like a serious title, huh? Nope, this is a silly post! My kids are always talking about their futures. Tonight at the dinner table they were doing that again. (Of course, they think the "future" is a place like in Meet the Robinsons). :)  Kaleb was saying he wants 10 kids--and then decreased that to 7. Then he drew their pictures and told me their names.  This is how it got started. Kaleb said that these names will be up to his wife, too, of course.

Kaleb's future kids:

1. Luis

2. Sayra

3. Wilbert

4. Hopphni

5. Jef

6. Phinius

7. Baby Jon

He says he's going to learn how to build his own airplane when he's a teenager, and then he's going to fly his airplane and be a missionary when he's a man. And he said "I won't care about money at all, I'll just care about people." =>

Isaac says he's going to have 3 kids now. Oh, I told him that A$$ was not an appropriate name for a child, and he was very bummed--he said "but I wrote it down in my book I'm going to have when I'm a man....so I helped him erase it. That day he changed it to Ana. Today, these are the names he's chosen:

1. Isaac

2. Isaac (the twins)

3. Abee (funny that he played with Abby at the park yesterday!!!)

He asked Karry today if he would pray for his future family, because he's going to have to work a lot to make enough money to build his machines, and he's worried that he'll be gone too much.  Then he decided that maybe he would work from home. He said he's going to put up a sign that says "Peaches for sale, 10 bucks," and people can come buy peaches from him at his house. It will be near Disneyland. He's going to make lots of money--enough to build machines, and to take his kids to Disneyland.

Noah is going to have 2 kids, he says,

1. Maggen

2. Joney (Johny)

He's going to hang up a sign at his house that says "Bananas for sale, 12 bucks," and people can come pick them. He's going to have an airplane--and then he said "I mean, a helicopter, because an airplane will be too big for my parking lot--I mean driveway." :)

The boys have figured out lately that girls change their last names when they're married, and boys keep theirs. We jokingly asked Ruby "what's your last name going to be?" and she said "Day!" and she keeps saying that.  Today after her brothers said the names of their future kids, I said "and Ruby, what are your kids going to be named?" She said:

1. Mani

2. Mine

3. Aa At

4. Gee

5. Teee (pointing at her teeth)

6. Kizzie (our dog) 

7. Day :)

Of course, we know none of this will happen exactly like this, and we remind our kids that God knows their future, we don't.  But we let them dream. I used to dream. I was going to name my kids:

1. Tyler Morgan

2. Taylor Marie (my red-headed twins)

3. Claire

4. Dawn (Karry's high school girlfriend's name ;)

5. Emily (Karry's cow's name ;)

Karry was going to name his daughter Linda. My dad used to call me Linda instead of Brenda to tease me. I wasn't going to name my daughter Linda. :) 

Oh yeah, and I was going to own an island where everybody only drove covered wagons and it only slightly (hee, hee) resembled Little House on the Prairie. Yes, I dreamed too. :)