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Me: *sees contessagrrl typing*
Me: What that?
CG: I'm typing messages back and forth with your Daddy!
Me: I want to type with Daddy!
CG: OK *boosts me up so I can reach keyboard*

Me: nnm

Daddy, alledgedly: Hi YIKES ! CG: See? He typed a message back to you! It says "Hi, Yikes ( Read more... )

As of this past weekend, I've decided that my name is now officially 'Yikes Fifi Beanbag Mockingbird.' I have a little trouble saying it all at once, but mama and Tessa and daddy have to be taught somehow.By 24 months, 9 out of 10 toddlers have started to make two-word sentences and usually have at least 25 to 50 different words in their ( Read more... )

Yesterday I used a new word that made Mama smile and roll her eyes at the same time. I wonder why? Maybe today I'll ask her why. Or maybe Daddy can tell me why. Or maybe Tessa knows why. I'll have to be sure and ask them all why? the next time I see them. it seems like an important question, "why?" Why?

Peace, love, unity, and why?
-Yikes

I am a member of 1 clique of size 4

y1k3z, spike, contessagrrl, msdaisy

I &hearts my clique.
-Y1k3z

Guess what?! I now know more words[1] than my mama does! Mama has to sometimes ask Daddy-o or Tessa to explain certain words that I've used to her. Silly mama!

PLUR,
-Yikes

[1] Words in ASL, that is. As for English, mama's vocabulary could kick my cute little baby butt.

I'm working on this whole "walking" thing. Honestly, it seems a lot less stable than crawling, but I think it might be better for cat-chasing.

Daddy-o says I'm still a digitigrade, but I'll show him one of these days!

Peace, love, milk, and that walking-helper thingy-
-Yikes

For a while now I'd suspecting that The Big People were just making up a new name for each new month as it came around. But then a week or so ago, they started using "November" again, even though I'm pretty sure that name was already used before.

Today, they tell me, is "November 10th". And that sounds really familiar. In fact, I'm positive I' ( Read more... )

Is it just me, or does the "rain" seem a little think, chunky, slow, and white this morning? Mama and Daddy-o seem oblivious. Is anyone else seeing this fluffy rain?

-Y1k3z

Rob saysYou are potentially a genius. Maybe not in the same way that Einstein and Beethoven were, but still: You possess some capacity or set of skills that is exquisitely unique. You are a work of art unlike any other that has ever lived. Furthermore, the precise instructions you need to ripen into that glorious state have always been with you, ( Read more... )