From Ms Flo to Lola

Back in the infancy of this still very young blog, I wrote about how Franklin got his name. Since we're in the middle of Lola's origin story, I figured I'd write about how she got her name.

When we met her, she was Ms Flo. That just felt a bit formal, and shortening it to Flo took us here:

(this was before the Progressive girl). 

We spent the first week or so that she was with us trying out different names. We'd see if she turned her head when we called her. We'd see if it just felt "right". 

We thought about staying in the Arrested Development genre, but had used up the good girl names on our cats, and "Bluth" just felt like more of a boy name than one for such a pretty girl. And I'd known a Lucy who wasn't my favorite dog. 

It came down to Chloe and Lola. As you know, we went with Lola. We wanted to also name her after Emma, but Lola Emma sounds dumb. So we just gave her an initial. Her full name is Lola E. But we only call her that when she's in trouble. 

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