A Bird Story

I was thinking that I would tell everyone why I am called Bird and Harlee is called Little bird. When Jeremy and I were first married he realized there were many sides to me. Well, his mom has this little love bird and it can be very, let's say... temperamental. Jeremy came to the conclusion that me and this bird were very similar, so sweet and friendly and singing one minute, puffed up, biting, and squawking the next. What can I say, we have character. And I'd like to add in my defense that the biting was always in good fun. But that's where it all started and now if he ever calls me Shay it's weird.
Then when i got pregnant the first time we called the baby little bird since we didn't know the gender yet. Sadly we lost our first baby, but we got pregnant again with Harlee and it was just something that we kept going. What else do mommy birds have? We actually called her Zippy after we found out she was a girl because the name Zipporah means little bird. That was ugly though, so it became Zippy and now that she is here she's just taken on the role of little bird. Makes sense to me.
Grandpa Jay(a very dear family friend, for those of you who don't know) still calls her Zippy which is just fine by me. I think as hyper as she is now we might just get back to calling her that once she becomes mobile.I guess we'll see.
But that's the story. A little boring and sappy, but hey, that's how we roll.