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What’s in a name?

March 13th, 2004 · No Comments

We did come up with new names for our kitties the other day. Well, Joel had the name for his a while ago. Right after we chose them (before they actually came to our house), he said he liked the name Katie. At the time, he was thinking of naming his Katrina and calling her Katy for short, but then it morphed into just plain Katie. He said he hadn’t settled on it, but within a few days of the cats being here, he was having trouble thinking of her as anything else, so Katie she is. 🙂

That made my job a little easier since now I could narrow my choices down to things that went nicely with “Katie.” Joel suggested “Kenya”, but I found out that means “animal horn”, and that just seemed odd. I decided I probably would stick with a “K” name, though, so I started hunting through K names on baby sites. I considered several (including Kaindra, Kyly, Kaya, and Kiara), but none of them quite worked. They didn’t sound right, or I didn’t like the meaning, or they just didn’t fit my kitty. I finally settled on the name “Keesha”. It means “rainfall” which seemed reasonably appropriate since her feet patter on the carpet like rain when she runs and she’s gray like a rain cloud. It also seems to fit her looks reasonably well.

So we are now the proud owners of Katie and Keesha. 🙂 I’m sure I’ll be reporting their exploits on here from time to time.

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