I wanna get this for Raie-Raie for her 2nd birthday!

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Yeah. We watch Phineas and Ferb and she always tries to make the Perry chattering sound... it's so cute. :3

I have been doing a little bit of art, but it's for my dad and a few other 'graphics' for things I really don't want taken and used so I'm not uploading them here. Also I've been working on some writing too. Again, nothing to post, it's all rough, rough, rough (rusted) draft and nothing I'm super proud of. I see it in my mind, but I can't seem to get it to flow nicely on paper.

Ever see a bunch of things when you don't need them and then as soon as you need to find them, you can't? My oldest sister's putting on a Hello Kitty themed 5th birthday party for my niece. I used to be able to find HK stuff EVERYWHERE in the dollar stores, Winco, etc. Now? Heck. No. Care Bears? SURE! Speed Racer... you bet! Strawberry Shortcake? Heck yes. Hello Kitty? *tumble weed bounces by* Grumblegrumblegrumble. Oh well. I found other sites which sold HK party supplies for a lot cheaper than the sites she found. Saves on her sending me money and shipping them back out to her.

Otherwise, nothing much going on here. I've been working on getting Raie to read and talk. That's going pretty well... so far she recognizes the words 'toes' and 'wave'. She's been working on the 'eensy weensy spider' motion (thumb to opposite index fingers, she's got one side of it and just needs to connect the other two), and loves to dance to 'hot potato' and 'rock-a-bye your bear' from the wiggles. It's cute... especially when she taps her fists together and says 'toe? toe?' (for potato) and rocks her arms back and forth, saying 'bye?' then puts a finger to her lips and goes 'shh-shh-shh' for 'rock-a-bye your bear/bear is now asleep' *sighs* she's still a little booger... but she gives some very good hugs. :3

Oh, a little side story. Raie got her '18 month shot' (she was 19 months... allergies at 18 months... didn't want to give her a shot then) so we took her to the store to pick up some ice cream to make it up to her. While we were going through the store, we passed a little stand of Russ plush toys. Being the tiger lover, I found the tiger and showed it to her. I don't do the whole "this is a duck, ducks say quack quack" stuff with her, but when I showed her the tiger... she took it and said "RAWR!!!" I never prompted her. I laughed so hard. Yes. We ended up getting the toy. It was only right. She still does it, picks it up off the floor or pulls it out of the box. "RAWR!" Silly, silly Raie-Raie. Though, it shouldn't surprise me. I did some more research on the name after coming across another girl on dA named "Raie" (though her mom's pronunciation was "Rye-EE" instead of "ray"). Found out "Raie" is french for, well, basically the English "ray", but it also means "striped". Lynne is old-English for 'beautiful/beauty'. Makiah is Hopi Indian for 'eagle hunter'. I sort of picked bits and pieces, flip-flopped it all around and came up with "Beautiful Striped Hunter"... or a Tiger. (though 'technically' her whole name means "striped beauty eagle hunter" ... I like mine better since I did 'make up' the name before finding it on baby name lists. Besides you look up "raielynne" and there isn't any meaning given. Raelyn, yes... but not Raielynne.)

Yes. I've babbled... many apologies. GOOD DAY! ^_^