Meet Ike

It was a great Friday. Breakfast with one friend- Joyce and Lexi, a good day at work and then supper with the BEST friends- Brandy and Robbie. After enjoying our supper at Harbor Inn, we all were chatting in the parking lot... and then Robbie spotted Ike.... and Brandy darted across the parking lot to capture him :-D
She held him so the kids in the van didn't see and that was a fun shreek from them!! And to my utter disbelief-- their dad is letting them keep the toad as our family pet :-0 In the car to buy Toad supplies I told them he needed a name. Anthony immediately suggested Ike. We thought of other names as well but the first name suggestion was the best. However Jayna needed to pick a name for him too... It rotated from George, Skip, Montana (like Hannah), Jackson, even Rainbow. She would try each name out Ike Rainbow Sykes, Ike George Sykes... although Anthony was pretty sure it sounded better Ike Sykes Rainbow or Ike Sykes George. So I explained to him Sykes had to be last like Anthony Robert Sykes or Jayna Olivia Sykes. So he wanted to hear our names. They laughed at "Leigh, Bethany Leigh?!?" hahahha But when I told them "Marko Lorenzo". Anthony excitedly said "That's Almost like Rango!!". So Yes Jayna decided to name Ike after Daddy-kinda... And so Ike Rango Sykes joined our family on March 18th, 2011... and although our son used his money to buy him a cage, Marko decided we will pay for a cage because apparently as kids Marko had several pet frogs/toads and his mom never would get them a cage and they died so Marko decided we would pay for it because he never had the oppurtunity!