"That would've been cute," Elena said. "Numbnuts. Kinda mean, but still cute."

Elena: not so great with naming things.

"I don't want to name her anything stupid," she insisted. "She's adorable. And she wobbles. Wobble-wobble-wobble and then she falls over, so she mews desperately until I get her. But she's not dumb or anything, I don't think. It's too early to tell. Just all tiny and new, still figuring out which end is up."