Aunt Diamond Creations

I met Santa!!

And I got a new hat!

Or would you rather be a fish?

Would you like to swing on a star?
Carry moonbeams home in a jar?
And be better off than you are?

You could be swinging on a star

First Bath!

Hiccups are scary...!

...and not just because they're a totally involuntary, spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm (like I could even point to where that is!) but because I get 'em all the time these days and I don't even know how to spell 'em! "Hiccoughs" just seems wrong! Exclamation points are fun!!

I really gotta settle down. The Dad's got me totally worked up for this SuperDooper Bowl he's got planned for tonight. I'm workin' the look though, dontcha think? I mean, try to focus on me in the following pic's cause it's one of those "clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right" kinda slideshows.

By the way, can anybody out there tell me when the Dads went calico? I mean, if you look close, I think I've got more red in the hair on my noggin than what little he's got left does, if you ask me.

I don't wanna bust the guy's chops too much, though. After all, he did do me the courtesy of hooking up some pre-game interviews with the local media... or as I like to call it, "the video feature on the digital camera." Still, I think they came out pretty well. Despite the hiccups. Which again, are scary.

In this second one, you can hear the voice that makes my world go 'round, but just long enough for her to tell the Dads "She cannot have Yuengling!" Hee-hee! It's gonna be a great game!

HERE WE GO STEELERS, HERE WE GO!!!
xoxo
Ivy

I think January 7th is a cool birthday 'cause...

This stuff happened:

• 1601 - Robert, Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth (remember, Dad's a Shakesnerd)
• 1610 - Galileo Galilei observes the four largest moons of Jupiter (Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto) for the first time, forgiven by the Pope in 1992
• 1618 - Francis Bacon becomes English lord chancellor, does not write plays of William Shakespeare
• 1789 - 1st national Presidential election in US... guess who won?
• 1927 - Harlem Globetrotters play 1st game, Generals lose 1st game
• 1929 - "Buck Rogers", 1st sci-fi comic strip, premieres, as does "Tarzan"
• 1934 - "Flash Gordon" comic strip (by Alex Raymond) debuts
• 1982 - "Fame" premieres on NBC-TV

These people were born:

• 1800 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President (He was a Whig, isn't that silly?)
• 1911 - Butterfly [Thelma] McQueen, actress (Prissy-Gone With the Wind)
• 1912 - Charles Addams, cartoonist (The Addams Family)
• 1922 - Vincent Gardenia, actor (All in the Family, LA Law, and Moonstruck)
• 1928 - William Peter Blatty, author (The Exorcist - one of Mom's favorites!)
• 1948 -Kenny Loggins, Pop Music god ("Footloose")
• 1950 - Erin Gray, actress (Buck Rogers mega-hottie)
• 1957 - Katie Couric, TV news host, perpetually perky
• 1964 - Nicolas Cage, actor (Moonstruck - ooo... a pattern?)
• 1976 - Éric Gagné, baseball player
• 1976 - Alfonso Soriano, baseball player
• 1977 - Dustin Diamond, actor ('Screech,' from "Saved by the Bell" ... sigh)
• 1982 - Francisco Rodriguez, baseball player (...for the pitching trifecta!)
• 2009 - Ivy Jacqueline Santry, future-capable

Pretty sweet list, huh? The Dads says he's gonna avoid the "TAB" button for a week now...

xoxo

Ivy

I got so much going on!

Seriously, these people keep me fricken busy! I spent almost all day yesterday on the road, strapped in like an astronaut into my Maxi Cosi "Mico" Infant car seat - and you know I got all the options like the Cozii-Dozi insert, multi-position, rotating canopy, 5-point harness with up-front harness adjustment, and a trigger latch. You know I roll in style. Thing's like a sensory deprivation pod, though: I hit that seat and it's Lights Out, y'know?

That's me - way back in there... you'll just have to take my word for it. If you think I'm playing shy, though I've got evidence to the contrary, dear readers. I've been on a publicity tour that'd make Miss America's head spin. All KINDS o' people been checking me out, dropping by for a 'what's up?" and generally making some of the weirdest sounds imaginable with their mouths in my direction. Here's a few:

My girl Eliza - she did a whole "Flip My Crib" makeover on my room with the Moms yesterday night. It was incredible! I never knew I had that many socks! And seriously, what are those things for, anyway??

Hope is really, really sweet. She'll be over later tonight to watch TV for a while and just hang. This was the only good shot we got together when I wasn't screamin' my fool head off for some snackage. It was like the Moms was holding out on me that afternoon, I swear! Still, we got this one pretty cool pic. I think she looks suprised.

Whoa - I gotta tell you about Anna. If I ever grow taller than the Moms I'm getting Anna to teach me how to stand up straight. Makes my posture look like I've got practically no motor skills at all. Oh... wait, um... about that...

Oh, and this is Lizzie! She made a huge fuss over me, which was nice. But she's only gonna be on dorm with me for the rest of the school year and then she's outie! Turns out she got a fatty scholarship on her early-entry agreement to Emory and Henry, where she's gonna be a Theatre major. This, of course, means almost nothing to me yet but the Dads is really psyched about it, so maybe one day, I will be too! Way to go, the Lizzie!

But wait: there's more. I gotta go back, way back to this morning to start this one. And you gotta remember it's all relative here: for me, the time between then and now is like, 1/14th of my life total life span! So anyway (had to stop there - getting the Dads to type, let alone explain a fraction is accompishment enough in itself) I was laying there in the big bed, with Dad sitting in a chair putting on his shoes a few feet away, and my older sister comes hopping up on the duvet to lay down beside me. Now, this might be news to a bunch of y'all, 'cause it was to me, too - the whole 'having a sister' thing. But we're a very inclusive family and we're not gonna be specists (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specist) about Willy's rightful claim to kinship 'round here. Heck, sister's got 15 years on me! So, we share some space, and I'm cool with that. She, however, has been a little slower coming around to the idea. Today was a big day, like I say.

Okay, so first, she didn't even know she was getting photographed laying that close to me. I mean, we're just not there yet emotionally, y'know? I figure it's gotta be stressful on her. And frankly, she has got some KICKIN' breath... like low tide, I'm tellin' ya... so there's some barriers we gotta break down.



But then the Dad's popped this pic of her totally getting comfy and gave her the go-ahead to check me out a little closer if she wanted to and...

I mean can you believe it??? She loves me! I know she does. I mean, she'd just as soon eat me, too but she's a predatory feline and I respect that. Point is, she made the effort.


Thanks, sis. Nice to have someone to look up to. At least you're on solids. That's months away for me, yet.

'Til next time,
xoxo and meow,
Ivy