Dawn, both are so pretty! We used to always have a parakeet - not sure why that stopped.
My 3yo great niece got a Betta and named it Aunt Nita (with her mother's input I'm sure). When I saw Zoey this year, she was a bit shy at first and when they told her who I was she looked at me confused. I asked her about her fish and what its name was - that broke the ice.