Hippopotamus

I was just playing with some puppets with Kylie. She pulled out a hippopotamus & called it an alligator. I corrected her and told her it was a hippopotamus. I just about cracked up listening to her try to pronounce it. Her first attempt was happy poppins, then she called it a hippy na pop apnus., then happy da doo. She's a pretty good talker, but hippopotamus is a pretty tough word. No wonder we always shorten it to hippo. Too Cute!