We are under 40 days until Jack arrives in our home, and Holly recently had her baby shower over at Shyla's house. Apparently when the family was in Tennessee they made a visit to the Memphis Zoo, and Dad came across this hippo that he decided Jack must have according to what Mom told me on the phone a few days ago before the baby shower.It looks like there is a decent chance that Jack's animal will be the hippo, since if you want to get technical about it, my animal is the frog, even if I have a soft spot for hippos anyways. I'm okay with that because it gives me an excuse to keep Gunner nearby even if Holly refuses to let me put Gunner in the crib with Jack. I think that is ridiculous, and that Jack needs to have friends too, but Holly won't hear of it.
Anyways, Holly asked me a day or two after the baby shower if I was going to name the new hippo or if we were going to wait and let Jack pick a name at some point. I figure it doesn't make much sense to wait for Jack because he won't be able to talk until this time next year likely, and I need a way to refer to the hippo until then.So, much like Cymbre's Louie was named for the zoo he came from, I have decided that this hippo shall be named Memphis because he came from the Memphis zoo. I think it is a pretty good fit, and now he is just waiting for us to get a crib or cradle or something for him to hang out in while he waits for Jack to arrive. I think we might go and do that this weekend if things work out nicely.
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