Who is Baby Hippi?

Hello all!!! :)  Hard to believe its been a month since I posted....not that I am shocked, but still hard to believe! :)

Okay so to the point....Baby Hippi....lots of people have been asking where on earth that came from. Sometimes I can be a bit of a flower child, but it has nothing to do with that!

Hippi actually comes from my mom Karin, who yes in her day was a bit of a hippie! And so was my other mom Jackie, but this is something totally different! :)

About 2 1/2 years ago Kameron took me on an adventure to pickup a car from a coworker of his.  Now this isnt abnormal that we were going to buy an old car from someone, but this trip was special. They have a pig named Ariel.  She was pretty big, and had just given birth to like 7 piglets...she may have just been a "plus sized" pig or she could have had a little baby weight on her still. I am not judging!

So I had the best time meeting Ariel and her crew. They were the cutest EVER EVER EVER! And that was the day I decided I NEEDED a pig, not a little bit, A LOT. I wanted to raise a pig, and I wanted one bad.

Well a few months later we got a dog....she may eat like a pig sometime but she is not a pig! Kameron said we could get a pig as long as I did EVERYTHING for this animal, or I could get a pig as long as it was cut up, and put in our freezer. (I know you are laughing, this is not funny!) he did agree to build me a pen for this pig, but I had to clean, feed, and take care of the pig, and the only time the pig was allowed in the house was when it was time to put the pig in our freezer.  I wasn't really agreeing to my terms and Kam wasn't agreeing to mine....so we waited and didnt get a pig.

Well this past May I decided I was going to push the pig issue again, after all it was getting warm out and we already had half a pig in the freezer (i mean really how much bacon can one person eat!) and so I was researching pigs one night and how they are as pets. When magically I came along to Pygmy Hippos! Can you believe you can buy a Pygmy Hippo? After Kameron stopped laughing, he said if I can find it, I can have it! I was excited and kept searching online for this new found pet of mine, I mean really who does not want a hippo in the family! Imagine the Christmas pictures!!!! :)  And they pygmys are meant to be pets not wild animals....thought you should know! :)

I was so excited I called my mom with the big news, and told her to be on the lookout, she laughed hysterically and told me we needed to have a baby!!! I already knew that, but I thought a hippo would be great! Needless to say I quickly slowed down on my "hippo hunt" and did some traveling for work and enjoyed my summer. In july when we found out that we would be expecting a baby, I called my mom to share the good news and she told me that I finally got my hippo and that the nickname should be "Hippi" and there you have it.....Hippi it is. The spellings vary which is fine, but I will tell you that I am happy we are having a "hippi" and not adopting a hippo!

We have been "hunting" near and far for hippo things, we even registered for hippo crib sheets, they are so dang cute!!! :) and I will buy ANYTHING if it has a hippo on it, I even bought a chip clip...who am i?  one would think finding hippo things is easy, it is not! do you know how many baby things have elephants, monkeys, or giraffes on them???? a lot more than have hippos on them!!! :) But Target does have some cute stuff and we have found the most random hippo stuff, so we are good to go...

and yes for the record, I have given up my quest for a hippo and a pig at this time. now if someday hippi wants one of them.....he/she will have to talk to daddy! :)

Trust me.....life is an adventure! :)  Enjoy the ride! :)

Thank you for reading.....as always we are "hunting" for hippos for Hippi! :)