Okay, now seriously, how hard is it to name a baby boy or two?
You can pay homage to his grandpa; or perhaps your teen crushes (Marky-Mark? M&M? Nahhhh...)
For pop star Celine Dion and her husband, Rene Angelil, it wasn't an easy call. Seems that they struggled on what to call their two-month-old twin sons for at least a week.
In hindsight, I guess their final choices were good ones. The boys are called Nelson, and Eddy.
Which led me to a very wrong presumption: That she named them after the singer, Nelson Eddy.
For those of you who are too young to remember, Eddy was a baritone whose fame and fortune came from the many musicals he made in the 1930s and 1940s, with co-star Jeannette MacDonald. He also had super-star appeal with bobby soxers, allowing him to cross over into pop music in those decades.
Celeb watcher Lori Shewbridge set me straight (see her comment, below). She points out that, according to PopEater.com, the names are tribute of music producer Eddy Mornay, who worked on Dion's first five albums, and former president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela.
Thanks, Lori! In fact, your Li'l Ms. Know-It-All remark wins you a free copy of SECRET LIVES OF HUSBANDS AND WIVES.
Celine began her singing career at age twelve. Does she have similar tiger mother aspirations for her little guys?
If so, first she'll have to be able to tell them apart.
Or as she jokes with Oprah Winfrey's talk show tomorrow (Monday, February 21, 2011): "Rene said, 'Listen, people are starting to call me. What's their names? I can't tell them A and B again - that's not working...It's like, 'Was the hat switched? I thought this was Baby A'. And I'm like, 'Stop [with] the As and the Bs. I'm going to do C [and] Ds right now. My name is Céline Dion with a C and a D, so don't push me, because I'm close to the edge!'"
We hear ya, Celine.
By the way, it doesn't get any easier.
Wait until they both get their driver's licenses,
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