Why Bears?

I think anyone who looks at my blog will notice that I am kind of obsessed with bears. A lot of you may wonder, what started the whole bear theme in my life. And yes it does seem like my whole life is bear themed lol.

Here is the explanation: When Anthony and I just started talking and were not yet a couple we would text A LOT. We talked about anything and everything. I think the whole thing first started when he said something about licking me... but I am not entirely sure. I then turned it into something of the effect of I was his mommy bear and needed to lick him to get him clean. This was just a simple conversation that we had. Later on down the road, he sent me a text saying something like "I'm hungry but I can't find any food!" and the image of a very cute and fluffy brown bear rummaging through a kitchen popped vividly into my head. I said something to explain this image to him and ever since we have been building on the whole bear thing.

It started out as him being the baby bear and me the mommy. But it later turned into him being a brown bear and me being a polar bear, because he has dark skin and I have light skin. When I got pregnant we started calling our baby the panda bear because pandas are part white and part black... technically he would be a brown and white panda not a black and white panda but we still call him panda. :)

Seth is only a half a bear because Anthony is not his father, and my ex is not a bear. We say that there are only five bears in our species. Anthony, me, Bear, Yogi, and Boo Boo. Yogi and Boo Boo are in our species because they can talk too just like us :]

When we decided to name our son Bear, this actually had nothing to do with the fact that we love bears. Bear is just a name that I came up with and Anthony liked. I suggested to him several names, probably around 30 and the only one he liked was Bear. I also originally wanted to spell it "BEHR" but he insisted we spell it "BEAR", and since I did come up with the name I figured I would give him the spelling.

Yes we do call ourselves bears, but no we do not believe we are actually bears. It is just something cute that we do. You know all those silly/crazy/cute things you do with your spouse? Well this is ours, and I absolutely love it.