Oh! And I forgot to tell you the cutest part!

[conuly]

Yesterday, as I said, we went to the store and stocked up on dog gear - dog toys, dog rawhide chews, dog food, dog bed, dog clothes, and a dog moose.

See, as you might recall, Ana has a moose. Ana has Moosie, and her emergency replacement moose. (She's now old enough to probably not need an emergency replacement moose, so Emergency lives in the house with the rest of us.) And we have a smaller version of Moosie, named Vanilla. And Eva has a moose with white horns named Chocolate, because she wanted her own full-sized stuffed moose. And I picked up two different moose from yard sales to screw with Jenn's mind a bit. And then I ordered my own moose last year, Jasper, and gave it to myself for Christmas.

So Eva refused to leave the pet store until we found a moose for Moonpie. (Oooh, we'll definitely call that moose Moosepie, gotta tell the girls!)

The cats, of course, would rather have a toy mouse instead of a toy moose :)

Comments

[heliopausa]

That sounds like an awful lot of mooses!

[conuly]

Yup!

[zhelana]

So question I've long had but never asked, is Eva pronounced like "Christmas Eve-a" or like "Eva Peron" or what?

[conuly]

Ayva, short for Ayvangeline.

And Ana is Ahna, like if she were Hispanic. Which she's not - it's short for Angelique.

[zhelana]

thanks :) I've apparently been pronouncing both of them wrong.