100 Things: #3 -- Punny Stuffed Animal Names!
I don't honestly remember how it started. It might have been when mabfan bought me a trio of stuffed dinosaurs in honor of not-our-wedding-date (a story unto itself; maybe I'll write that one up some day). So he got me a brontosaurus (don't tell me they don't exist; that's what the tag said it was), and I named it Charlotte. And then he bought me a second one. And I named it Emily. And then he bought me a dimetrodon, which is technically not a dinosaur, but that's neither here nor there. I named it Dmitri. But I'd decided that had he bought me another brontosaurus, I was going to name it Anne.
From there the floodgates opened. We have a giraffe I named Vander. We have a brown bear I named Frederick (now known by the girls as Fred the Bear). We have an obscurely named owl I call Rick Mercer (because this owl has 22 minutes). At one point, I compiled a list of names of stuffed animals in our collection, but it has fallen woefully out of date. Also, most stuffed animals in the house now belong to Muffin and Squeaker, and they're not so creative with animal names yet. (The bears that Sabba and Savta gave them are both "Sabba Savta bear." The bears that we told them were special to Mommy and Daddy are, respectively, Mommy's Special Bear and Daddy's Special Bear). The stuffed octopus that I knit ended up with the name Calamari, but Muffin only knows her as Callie.
At some point, I need to dig out the list again. I may post it here for amusement purposes.
ETA: mabfan reminds me that we named our stuffed bison Freeman.
From there the floodgates opened. We have a giraffe I named Vander. We have a brown bear I named Frederick (now known by the girls as Fred the Bear). We have an obscurely named owl I call Rick Mercer (because this owl has 22 minutes). At one point, I compiled a list of names of stuffed animals in our collection, but it has fallen woefully out of date. Also, most stuffed animals in the house now belong to Muffin and Squeaker, and they're not so creative with animal names yet. (The bears that Sabba and Savta gave them are both "Sabba Savta bear." The bears that we told them were special to Mommy and Daddy are, respectively, Mommy's Special Bear and Daddy's Special Bear). The stuffed octopus that I knit ended up with the name Calamari, but Muffin only knows her as Callie.
At some point, I need to dig out the list again. I may post it here for amusement purposes.
ETA: mabfan reminds me that we named our stuffed bison Freeman.