Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Maybe it's just me but i think Owen's belly button bears more than a passing resemblance to a yin yang symbol. That and being born on August 8th (8/8) I think Owen would be very appreciated if he took a trip to China and, you know, went around flashing his navel and shouting out his birthday. Apparently in Chinese numerology 8 is a very auspicious number, one reason why the beijing olympics started on 8/8/08, and yes they carried the 8 to the limit with the official starting time having been 8 seconds and 8 minutes past 8 pm. I also just learned (thank you wikipedia!) that 88 is bears a visual resemblance (when you look at chinese characters) to 'double joy' which is a popular decorative design for joy or happiness. But that belly button, if you can look past the bit in the middle which makes even me, his own mom, squeamish at the resemblance to brain, the outer part looks like a yin yang.

3 comments:

kristi said...

it does! half inny half outy. :)

sew nancy said...

oh my goodness. that's crazy....
i am going to have to look at my kids belly buttons more closely now.

Elise A. Miller said...

and you wrote this post on 9/1, and 9 minus 1, well... MOST AUSPICIOUS. that is one fortune cookie of a boy.