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h is for horse. and hippo.


First, before I write anything else, I thought I should share a little disclaimer about my water post from the other day. A commenter pointed out that it’s possible to drink too much water. I knew this, of course. I’ve heard the stories of the crazy people on the radio station contests who have become intoxicated from drinking too much water too quickly. Obviously this is not what I was recommending you do to lose weight, so… just don’t drink too much water at once, okay? Everything in moderation and all that.

Okay then!

Anyway! For Valentine’s Day, my mom brought Maggie a Little People set of blocks that was farm-themed: a barn, a tractor, a farmer, and some animals. The other day we were playing with them and she kept calling the horse a hippo. At first I didn’t even realize what she was talking about, I thought it was just toddler-babble. Then I realized she was referring to horse. That’s odd, I thought. She knows what a horse is. She even knows that they say ‘naaaay! *PFFFT*’ (cracks me UP when she does the horse imitation)

So I corrected her and told her No, that’s a horse, sweetheart. She looked at me, said ‘Horse’ and all was well. Until a few minutes later when she called it hippo again. And again today, she called it a hippo. Why on earth does she keep calling the horse a hippo?

Then I took a good look at it.

horse or hippo?

You tell me: does that not look like a hippopotamus nose? This kid, she misses nothing.

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12 Comments


  1. Melissa

    Feb 23 at 8:29 pm

    If it wasn’t for the hair and horse shoes, I’d say that was a hippo. (The hippo probably has the same face but in gray!) Good call, Maggie. :)



  2. sparkyd

    Feb 23 at 8:40 pm

    Yeah, we have the same set and I never noticed the hippo resemblance, but it totally does have a hippo nose. Smart kid.

    And about the water thing – I was wondering if you’d comment on that comment! I had to resist the urge to tell that person to get a grip. From what I can tell most of the people that read your blog have a little bit of common sense between their ears. You were much more diplomatic than I would have been. ;)



  3. samantha jo campen

    Feb 23 at 8:47 pm

    Hippo. All the way. She will have a career as a continuity person!

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  4. Laura

    Feb 23 at 10:51 pm

    And why is the horse standing on his back legs?? Honestly, how are you supposed to gallop like that? Andrew has the same set. At this point I’m just happy if he can point to the horse when I ask which one is the horse. But he really prefers the chicken. ;)

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  5. Jen

    Feb 23 at 10:53 pm

    @Laura: The chicken is cute! I didn’t even notice until yesterday that there’s a little baby chick on the chicken.



  6. Caity

    Feb 23 at 11:30 pm

    That is so funny. It sort of reminds me of the hippos from that old game Hungry Hungry Hippos!

    Caitys last blog post: Back to reality.



  7. Kris

    Feb 24 at 7:17 am

    Fisher Price sometimes has some weird looking animals.

    We have a pig around here that is the exact same colours as a cow (white with black spots), nothing pig like about it. We call it the Moink.

    What you have there is a Hiporse. Aren’t those totally common in the real world??



  8. Steph

    Feb 24 at 8:59 am

    Lol – he totally could pass for a Hippo. One smart cookie you have :)

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  9. Mel

    Feb 24 at 9:39 am

    ha ha…he DOES look like a hippo…the only thing is that he’s not gray, and he doesn’t have any little teeth sticking out. don’t they usually give hippos two front teeth? :)

    Mels last blog post: My something blue!



  10. Allison

    Feb 24 at 10:02 am

    Haha! It totally does look hippo-ish.

    And you should take a video of her making a horse sound!



  11. Claudia

    Feb 24 at 10:59 am

    She’s actually pretty smart – hippos are, though distantly, related to horses, and they are also known as “water horses” ;)



  12. Anneli

    Feb 25 at 3:12 am

    There was a story in the news a few weeks back, about a woman who was crash dieting (always a bad idea, but especially so for her in this care) and was drinking obscene amounts of water, and actually died from it. D:

    Also, that’s totally a hippo with horse shoes.

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