So my last entry isn't on any friends pages yet, you may have to go to my journal to see it...

Sorry about that, it's pretty funny if you're not living it.

ANYway, the big news is that the babies have each stood sans something to lean on. Only for a few seconds each, but it's a start. Seth apparently will even try for his first step like that, but he hasn't made it yet. He's overeager. *shrugs*

When I was little, I was a bit late walking without help. Not late like people worry, late like the late side of normal. So I "cruised" a lot, walking holding on to stuff, and I climbed a lot, on every bit of furniture I could find, but I didn't stand up on my own until I was past a year. I apparently crawled into a room with my family in it, got into the middle of everything, and just... stood up. With a flourish. I yelled "Ta-da!" as I did it.

Seth and Ana don't have any idea of drama, apparently. *le sigh*

Stolen from staircase_wit

I'm a sucker for memes. I love them so.

Love gives you cooties.

I want to make a book icons community...

There seems to be some demand, but I don't know how to run a community. Does anyone have any advice?

(edit) Well, I've made one. book_icons. Consider joining, would you?

Given the semi-success of mihi in this world...

I've decided to up the ante with still more Latin in my livejournal posts.

If you missed the memo, mihi is the dative (of reference). It means "to/for me", as in "The room is cold mihi. To say "to/for you" you go tibi.

Anyway, now I'm going to start using the pronouns ipse and iste (full declension to follow).

Ipse means "the famous" or "him/her/myself" and iste means "that of yours" or "the disreputable". VERY useful pronouns. Latin was a little pronoun happy.

I'm slightly torn as to whether or not to bother declining them in my typing or not. I'll probably go with not because unless you know Latin, you won't get the declinsions.

Use of ipse

Ipse isn't used to mean "I was talking to myself" or "he killed himself". For my, your, our self you use the regular pronoun (I was talking to me, you want to kill you, we taught us) and for his, her, their self you use the pronoun sui (as in suicide). So, first and second person doesn't get a special word, third person does.

Ipse is used in the sense of "I myself am writing this entry" or "They themselves admit how stupid they've been". It's an intensifier, not a reflexive.

Use of iste

Iste can either mean "that of yours", as in "that dog of yours got into the trash again" and "that boy of yours won the nobel prize" or, more commonly, "that disreputable", as in "iste Bush is stupid" and "iste Bush is ridiculous".

Ipse and Iste declined, along with some other pronouns.