Name Explanation

By the way, for future reference, when I mention "Tookie", that is Baby #2. We can't name the baby yet because it's still 3 months till we find out whether it's a boy or a girl, so rather than referring to "it", we've given him/her a generic name. In case you're wondering why we picked something so odd, Susanna got called Pookie in utero, for reasons I don't remember, and we didn't want to reuse that one, so we decided to name #2 in the manner that the Canadian $2 coin was named a few years ago (They did away with the one and two dollar bills a while ago... so in Canada, rather than having a fat wad of cash - which is really just $20 in $1 bills, you get to carry around 5 lbs of coinage that adds up to the same). See, the $1 coin is called a loonie (because it has a picture of a loon on one side), and maybe 7 or 8 years ago - I don't remember exactly - they introduced the $2 coin, and it needed a name. And the one that stuck was toonie (two + loonie). So Pookie became Tookie. I know, I know, we Canadians are a little odd, but hey, it does make perfect sense, eh?