Naming Kids

Nigerian Dwarf x Tennessee Fainter crosses: Brad's first kids!

Lisa, Loyal, and Luke. It took close to a week for Cocoa and Thumbelina's kids to get named, but the names fell into place yesterday right after Jennifer's triplets were named.

Lisa is a curious kid. She investigates with the zeal of a good reporter.

Beginning with the doeling, Lisa is named for a fun-loving and highly-accomplished journalist better known to her friends as L.A.  Our little Lisa is dark chocolate brown and white. (We thought of her as black-and-white until Jennifer's Molly came along to show us what black-and-white really looks like.) This little gal very nearly carried the name Melissa, for a character in a novel we like, but when given the opportunity to name her for an actual person, why we couldn't resist calling her Lisa.

Little Loyal with his twin Lisa. Loyal is already emulating his sire with the curled-up lip.

Loyal and Luke share such a strong resemblance, we wanted names with similar sounds. They were named for a real person and a character, respectively.      

Although we'll finish this entry later, Lisa wanted us to squeeze in a message from her:

Lisa says, "Happy Birthday, L.A. Thanks for giving me your name today!"

--Later--

To wrap up, Loyal was named for an arborist who used to trim my mother's French lilacs in return for lemon meringue pies. Uncle to the Kyle for whom this spring's kid Kyle was named, Loyal was not someone who frequented my young world, yet he held an important place in our household and neighborhood.

Luke is the namesake of a character in a novel. A young, energetic sort he likes kids and farm life, so he seemed to be a reasonable choice for Thumbelina's surviving fall kid.