I cannot even find words to describe its greatness. Thanks to cleolinda for tweeting a link to this video of surpassing love and win:

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Endangered schmendangered, I want my own slow loris to tickle RIGHT NOW. The look of bewildered disappointment on his face when they stop is the best part.

From dolorous_ett:

BABY FROGMOUTH OWLS CUTEST THING EVER I MUST HAVE ONE

Ahem. Sorry you had to see that. As you were.

*dances gleefully around icon by cheesygirl*

That's really all.

I was just changing my two-and-a-half year old son's diaper when he looked up at me with his big brown eyes and said:

"You're so lovely, Mommy. When you were a little girl, you were so cute."

I think someone has been hanging around with Grandma, but nevertheless... *melts*

Here, more or less verbatim, is the text of Nicholas's first sermon, which he delivered to his grandparents and myself after sternly commanding us to sit down and listen while he "preached":

"On the first day, God created the aminals, and the juice, and all the yummy food. And then... there were people... and they turned... into a pumpkin."

I'm not ( Read more... )

Oh! I remember one thing I was going to do that doesn't require much brainpower -- make a note of some of Nicholas's cute mispronunciations. Because I know he's going to grow out of them and then I'll forget. Here are the most common ones:

"Mommy, I want some breksef."
"Make Simon stop! He's playing with my trachster!"

And then there's his way of ( Read more... )

So Nicholas is sitting here playing with my Lego HP Duelling Club. And he shouts, "I take you up to heaven!" and I look up, and he's holding Snape way up in the air, with another one of the Lego characters I can't identify at first glance. So I said, somewhat bemused, "Who is taking Snape up to heaven?" And he grins at me and says "Lockhart ( Read more... )