Possumblog

Growing up.

Over the weekend, I was putting up some clothes in Catherine and Rebecca's bedroom, and Cat was in there playing with some of her vast zoo of stuffed animals.

"I'm gonna call this one Alexandra," she said. She was holding some sort of squishy thing, and I wasn't really paying attention to what it was.

"Mm. That's a pretty name. Here, put these in your drawer."

"I named her that because I've decided not to call them things like Kacy and Kelli and...and those types of names anymore. I'm gonna call them regular names."

Now, for the past eight years of her life, she's seemed to be stuck on a default of naming most things something with a hard-K sound on the front end--I don't really know why, other than it's kinda cute and I suppose it was easy to say. Even if an animal or doll changed names later on, it usually started out with a K name of some sort. Kristy, Katie, Kelly, Keekee, Kitty (a favorite)--but now, it seems she wants to change that.

"No more K names!? Why'd you decide to do that, Squirt?"

"Mmm, I don't know--just because I got tired of it, I guess."

It all goes by so fast.

Posted by Terry Oglesby at December 13, 2005 08:24 AM