So, my birthday's in 32 days.

I'm going to post a short (hah!) wishlist here, which doesn't really vary much from my Christmas wishlist. Included, I'm listing a few programs for the toddler I'd like to join, but those are *expensive*. Getting out of the house makes the day easier, and having programs to go to makes getting out of the house easier, but... wow. Xigs, can you swing the museum card? The year is ending, and we need to get to work on renewing our subscription if you can't.

And, for a change, I'm listing a few things for me instead of the babies. I'm not totally altruistic :)

As always, my prefered present, though, is Donations to Charity. Go with whatever you like that I'm not totally opposed to, and we'll call it even. My second-prefered present is stuff cadged used - I'll gladly take two used books in place of one new one.

Things you can send online are also good - recipes, icons, fanfic, music files in place of CDs, that sort of thing.

I'm still making a list. I like making lists. If the concept of Santa weren't scary, I'd gladly take his job.

( Programs )

Eh, I'll finish this later.

( DVDs and CDs )

Cutting that short....

Yesterday wasn't *all* bad...

After her nap, she felt much better, so we played. And then when Jenn got home...

See, my mom and I (and sometimes Jenn) do this thing where we spontaneously harmonize nonsense lyrics. Or semi-nonsense lyrics. And Ana was sitting with her mom repeating "I want milk. Please want milk?" while Jenn tried to convince her that no, snuggling is better than milk. Which sets me up to start singing "Iiiiiii! Want to snuuuuugle! Iiiiiiii! Want to snuuuuuugle!", causing Jenn to harmonize with me - and Ana joined in, singing her milk part. And when Jenn and I would switch what we were singing, Ana would too. It was great. I couldn't be happier if she'd started playing cards with us.

She's asking why questions all the time now. Weird thing there... when she gets a time-out, afterwards Jenn and 'dul want her to say sorry. I don't care so much about whether or not she's sorry as whether or not she acknowledges that hitting/biting/whatever is unacceptable, but, eh, not my kid. So she'll say sorry, and then to clarify, I'll say "For what? Ana, you're sorry for what? Why are you sorry?" because it's all rather pointless if she doesn't connect the bad behaviour to the time-out, right?

She's now generalized the phrase "for what" to mean "why". So if you ask her to do something and she doesn't want to, she'll turn around and yell "FOR WHAT!" When she's just asking a question, she either uses why or the compound form "for why". Too cute.

Anyway anyway ANYway, I need some help. For the past couple of days, she's had these... hives. And they'll appear in one spot, like her knee or her ankle or her arm, stay there for a few hours, and then disappear only to reappear elsewhere. There seems to be *some* connection to sleeping, they're more likely to show up when she wakes up, but they also show up when she hasn't been near her bed or any of its accoutrements in ages. We're completely baffled. Any ideas?