My husband and I were on a vacation in Maui a month after we got engaged (Dec 2011). While there, we went to the aquarium. Now, let me preface this with.. anyone that knows me, knows that my favorite color in the world is baby blue. Back to Maui... While walking through the gift shop of the Maui aquarium, I came across the most adorable stuffed octopus. They had baby pink and baby blue. Knowing that some day we'd have children, it made my heart melt. It was the cutest little thing I've ever seen. I picked up the last baby blue one and showed it to Brad. Even though I always wanted a little girl and prayed that my first child would be such, I had to have the blue one (and it was the last blue one - totally meant to be). Brad thought it was super adorable too (or "gangster" as he would say LOL). We decided we had to get it for our future child. Regardless of if we had a boy or girl first, we'd give this little baby blue octopus to our first born child.
Brad thought for sure we'd have a boy first, so he thought it would work out anyway HAHA
Brad also had a stuffed animal as a baby. His name is Spike. To this day, he still has Spike and he even lets Adriana play with him from time to time. Now, Adriana has a first stuffed animal. Her little baby blue octopus. I don't care that it's not pink. I love that her official baby stuffie is baby blue and not a typical stuffed animal for a baby (i.e. dog, cat, bunny, etc..).
Knowing that this little octopus needed a name, one day, Brad called him Octi. I was like, "oh, is that the Octopuses name?" He said yeah! And then I asked, "Why did you name him that?" And he said, "yeah, it's short for octopus." I then said, "but Octo would be short for Octopus, not Octi. Why not have Octi be short for Octimus Prime? LOL" And ever since then, the little baby blue octopus has been known as Octimus Prime (AKA "Octi").
Brad and I name a lot of Adriana's toys... She has a little lion rattle guy that we named Lionel. And a rattle elephant we call Elephante. And her yellow duck binky, we call him Ducky. I know, so original sounding right? HAHA We are funny. ;-)
I'm just so happy that Adriana gets to have a baby stuffed animal to grow up with, like her daddy did. I never really had a stuffed toy that came through with me for my whole life.. Makes me smile to see her love for Octi :-D
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| Adriana & her stuffie Octi |
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| Pictured from left to right: Elephante, Octi & Lionel |
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| The first time she ever held Ducky |
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| Fell asleep with Lionel in her hand <3 |
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| She LOVES Octi! |
How fun!!! Sad ducky died. :(
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