Baby-Ana update....

The baby is nine months old!

This is where she is right now!
And again

( What she does )

Ana is a lot like me when I was around her age. She does things I remember doing - collecting rocks, pretending to be the Statue of Liberty, reciting capitals... okay, the last was more about my parents than me, but still! She knows four capitals now! England, Belgium, Canada, Ethiopia. Next we'll either do Australia, which is fun to say, or Turkey, because Deniz' family is Turkish.

She hops. She really hops. And she's grown taller - just a few months ago, she had to jump to hit the elevator call button in Jenn's office, now she barely goes up on her tiptoes. And she sings little songs to herself. And I know she can read some words, even if she's loath to admit such a thing.

And I must upload the icon Liz made for me, but I'll see if Jenn wants it first. I'd rather mine said "Sisters", anyway, but I didn't realize that until just now.

*giggles slightly*

I amuse myself altogether too much, I must say.

Jenn and 'dul and all were on the train with me today. To entertain myself (and, ostensibly, the children), I started singing "I had a cat, and the cat pleased me", prompting the sarcastic comment from Jenn that this song didn't have nearly enough death and dismemberment. Y'know, like most of the songs I prefer. (Hey! I like ballads! They have killing in them! Can't be helped!)

So, to appease her, I sang "I had a zombie and the zombie pleased me, I fed my zombie by yonder tree! Zombie goes braaaains! Braaaaains! Duck goes quack, quack, hen goes chimney-chuck, chimney-chuck, cat goes fiddley-I-fee."

Vampires go "Blood! Blood!", Werewolves go "Grr! Grr!", Mummies go "I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling kids!", Ghosts go "Boo! Boo!" and at this point I gave up.

But I was amused, at least. So were the tourists. I ought to charge them for their amusement - they got bona fide New York City entertainment for free! It's unfair!

Ah well.