squirrel and friend

totoro was teasing this squirrel relentlessly.

now you see her now you don't

down at the weir on the Kelvin:

now where has she gone?

wah-hey! she's back!

whoops... invisible again!

koala

we were changing a bummy, and lilah/totoro said

Koala need some cream. He have a sore bummy.

ok, i said, you get the cream and we'll fix his bummy. (thinking, of course, this is pretend.)

as i cleaned up my job, totoro took no time at all in not only getting the cream, but opening the tub, and using it properly on the area on Koala that would be considered the bum-area if Koala had one.

not quite sure how to get sudocream off a stuffed animal, though.

favourite picture ever

just a normal day at home

camera shy

lilah is fully capable of reading the entirety of We're Going on a Bear Hunt, but the pressure of performance got to her this first time.

i'll post another one soon so you can enjoy the well-read story yourselves.

always the bathing-suit

it's pretty much a daily outfit, in one of its very basic incarnations.

swimming in the living room...

it's what suffices when one has no pool.

run away!

another one from the visit to the botanics with Fay

lest i forget

lilah and i were talking this morning about when she was growing in my tummy.

i asked lilah if she remembered being in mummy's tummy.

she corrected me: in mummy's belly.

oh yes. belly. like totoro's fuzzy belly, only a little bit different. do you remember being in mummy's belly?

yes.

what was it like?

...

inside mummy's belly? do you remember what it was like in there?

bad.

this is just funny

what's up with that bite??

Lisa, Totoro, and Wee-Ziza

Lisa is visiting from Hong Kong but will soon be returning to Japan. Anyone who knows Lilah (sorry, I mean Totoro) will know her Blankies. Lisa's Grandmother is the heavenly saint who made L-Totoro those blankets as a gift when she was born.

Those "family jewels" Totoro is holding is Lisa's chunky bracelet. Good positioning, dude.

And Wee-Ziza (Luisa) is our very own re-established Weegie who oftentimes is called upon in an unorderly, last-minute, hasty, tear-filled phone call to help us out with "Princess Lilah Pants" because we need a sitter in the morning... Wee-Ziza is a gift to us all and I hope she knows how much we appreciate her efforts to keep Totoro as unspoiled as possible. ;)

the botanics

Lilah and Fay are wee BFFs. This was just last Sunday (last day of Feb), and the Dads had the great idea to get some coffees and chat while the girlies amused themselves. I remember hearing that Dads spent so much time sitting that they were the first to get restless!

face tattooing

oh. so that's why you were being so quiet in your room just then.

i can see what you were going for here...

part feline. part distinguished frenchman.