Today we changed Matthew's name to Kaiser.  We did it to get in the German spirit of our ward Oktoberfest tonight.  Ok, not really.  Not really for Oktoberfest, but really we did change his name.  If you are interested in why then read on. . .

When he was born we debated heavily between Kaiser & Matthew.  We thought we had decided on Kaiser (it was unanimous between Bryce & I and Dale) and at the last minute we decided to go with the "safer" of the 2 names and alas we had Matthew.  We love the name but struggled from the beginning to feel like it was the right name for him.  Kaiser just kept coming back to us.  When he was 3 months old we came quite close to changing his name but chickened out yet again.

Last Sunday we were just playing around as a family and I told Bryce that sometimes I still wish we would've named him Kaiser.  His reply was, "That's funny cause I do too.  In fact, all day today I have been thinking about how exactly we would spell it if we were to still change it."  It was crazy.  And the more we talked the more we realized that neither of us had fully taken to Matthew and we both often found ourselves wishing he was Kai.  During our talk we both kept feeling like now was the time to make a change.  It just felt right.   

Today was the first opportunity we had to go together to make it official and when we looked at his name on his new birth certificate we felt a calming sense of peace & relief.  His birth certificate reads Kaiser Brent Mildon and we have been calling him Kai for short.

Now you all have a crazy story to tell about these silly people who changed their baby's name at 10 months old.  We never thought we'd be "those" people but when it is right it is right.  Bryce & I have been preparing ourselves for the laughing, mocking and plain disagreement that we will face but decided that this is just going down as a funny story in Kai's history since we just know this is who he is.