Naomi Watts Dishes On Sons' Latest Milestones

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The apple didn’t fall far the tree when it comes to 2 ½-year-old Alexander ‘Sasha’ Pete Schreiber — so says his mom, actress Naomi Watts.

“He’s acting now … a lot of acting,” she jokingly reported to Celebrity Baby Blog backstage at the Calvin Klein fashion show in New York City recently. Insisting that she’s “not a stage mother,” Naomi later revealed that her firstborn “likes to play little characters.”

With that said, her second child with fiancé Liev Schreiber — 14-month-old Samuel Kai — has also been giving the couple plenty of reasons to celebrate.

“Kai is definitely starting to talk. He says ‘book,’ ‘apple’ and ‘banana,’ ‘Sasha’ — his brother’s name — and ‘Mommy’ and ‘Daddy.’”

Sporting a dress and cashmere coat, Naomi, 41, appeared fresh and well-rested at the event — and for good reason!

“Both kids slept through,” she revealed. “It was a good night last night.”

– Missy with reporting by Jeffrey Slonim

Comments

Why didn’t they just name their kids Sasha and Kai if thats what they intended on calling them? Just curious haha

- cali girl on March 8th, 2010

I understand the nickname of Sasha for Alexander. But I have never understood going by the middle name although a lot of people follow that practice. My husband goes by his middle name because they wanted to name him after his father but called him by his middle name so it wouldn’t be confusing. His mother has never given me a good reason so to why they just didn’t give his father’s name for his middle name.

- l's mom on March 8th, 2010

sasha is a nickname.
when kai was born, they originally called him samuel, but went with kai as they got to know him.

- noam on March 8th, 2010

Kai is talking now……Wow – he grew up quickly!!!

- Brooke on March 8th, 2010

its nobody’s business why they call their kids what they do. there’s no law that says you need to call people by their given names. they’re nicknames. end of story.

- lover on March 8th, 2010

Maybe they wanted more traditional first names for when the boys grow up. Sasha and Kai are pretty unconventional, and there have been studies that show that people unconsciously treat people better if they have “normal” names – like Alexander and Samuel. Maybe they’re family names – Liev is Jewish, and it’s traditional to name babies after deceased loved ones. Who knows?

- Molly on March 8th, 2010

As far as the name thing goes….Naomi and Liev have never, to my knowledge, given a reason as to why they didn’t just name Sasha what they were going to call him. However, I remember Naomi or Liev (I can’t remember which) saying in an interview shortly after Kai’s birth that they couldn’t decide if they wanted to name him Kai Samuel or Samuel Kai. Obviously they eventually settled on the latter.

I’m guessing they ended up calling him “Kai”, because they decided they didn’t like Samuel as a first name very much.

- CelebBabyLover on March 9th, 2010

Maybe when Sasha grows up he’ll start to want to be called Alexander. That’s the nice thing about nicknames, unlike “real names”, they’re not written in stone (a/k/a birth certificate).

- Elizabeth II on March 9th, 2010

Wow does time march, or rather race on or what?! The fact that Kai is talking is really great! Sasha is acting? Why would he do that for? Oh yeah, both parents are actors. Maybe he’ll do what my niece did..become a cop instead. Well, most kids act at that age anyway, but he has great inspiration both parents are really good at it. Maybe they’ll follow in their footsteps. They sure would win baby beauty contests at the least, they are adorable!

- Patricia on March 10th, 2010

Wow! does time march or race on or what?! The fact that what both parents wish to name their kids or give them nicknames is of course their right. Sasha is a perfectly acceptable nickname for Alexander, and Kai is unusual at best and probably fits him well. Besides there will no confusion as who is who in that family or among friends, like in our family. I mean who in their right mind would name on daughter Patricia and the other Pamela? My brother’s names were Mike and Bob. They spent a great deal of time being called Mob and Bike then their actual names. I mean really we spent more time wondering who in the world my mother was really talking too.

- Patricia on March 10th, 2010