where did he come from?

Maybe you are wondering how Gigi came into our lives? I will tell you.

When Ruby was in mommy's belly, mommy was out shopping. The nursery was finished but mommy felt that it was missing something. Not being a fan of stuffed animals herself, mommy was hesitant to buy any, but there weren't really any soft toys for Ruby to cuddle with in the nursery so when she saw a basket of 4 for $20 TY Plushies mommy caved in. She figured she would be a "good mom" and scooped up 4 to take home and put in the toy bucket in the lovely green nursery. Mommy would have much rather had her first baby's lovey be a funky, handmade, non-mass produced item, but sometimes you don't get to choose these things. They choose you.

4 TY Plushies came home that day. TY is the company who makes Beanie Babies, and these are larger but still floppy, squishy, well- plushy lovies.

There was a monkey, a brown bear, a tropical fish, and an orange koala bear.

The koala bear looked like this-




Now, after almost 5 years of good lovin' he looks like this and I couldn't even tell you where the monkey, bear, or fish is.