The Story of Dadoo

I know that I'm always referring to Jerry as "Dadoo" versus the traditional "Daddy". Those who are with us alot already know why he's called that, but some of you probably don't. So here's the quick little story.

When Anniston was learning how to say our names, she would say Dadoo. Jerry took her to the babysitter's house in the mornings before work, and the ENTIRE way there, he and Anniston would go back and forth.
Jerry: Daddy
Anniston: Dadoo
Jerry: Daddy
Anniston: Dadoo

....you get the picture....

It takes about 8 minutes to get to the babysitters, so he was trying so hard to drill Daddy into her head. Well, one day--IT HAPPENED! She said Daddy, and it broke Jerry's heart. He realized that he loved it when she was calling him Dadoo, because it was special...a name that probably no other Daddy out there has. So he decided at that moment to quit teaching her to say Daddy, and he's been Dadoo ever since.

We figured once she started school that she would start calling him Daddy since she'd be around other kids who had Daddy's. But she hasn't. In fact one time I told her that I saw Baylor's Dadoo at the store. She said, "No Mommy, Baylor has a Daddy. I have a Dadoo."

TOO CUTE!!! So there you go, now you all know the story of how Jerry became Dadoo.