Sprinkles

Even though Ryan has had this stuffed hippo since the day he was born, it's only been the last couple months that they have become almost inseparable. His name is Sprinkles, and we bought him when we were first told that we had been chosen to be Ryan's parents. Sprinkles got lost once in WinCo when Ryan was about six months old, but Daddy went back and "rescued" him (I was more upset at that point than Ryan was). Thankfully he was in the lost and found and didn't go home with some little child.

Ryan was allowed to take comfort items with him into surgery, and he took his blankie and Sprinkles. He calls Sprinkles his "baby," and he takes very good care of him. When I told Ryan that we were getting his picture taken today, he asked if he could bring Sprinkles and have his picture taken too. So we brought him along and put him in one of the pictures. The poor hippo is well-loved and very shabby looking, but Ryan loves him to death!