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If she doesn't grow out of the Terrible Twos soon, one of us may scream. Oh wait. She already is doing that. Well, I may scream, and I can scream louder.

Honestly, when she's being good, she's very very good. She's fun, she's adorable, she's sweet, she's polite, she's helpful.

And when she's bad she is truly horrid. It's enough to make a sane woman weep. I'm not too sane, that might be why I'm not crying :)

We didn't do much today, I still felt fuzzy. Popped my ears a few times, that felt good.

Played the "this little piggy" game. She always forgets she likes that, probably because her feet tickle her too easily. And I've been looking up other games to play that end up with me tickling her or pinching her nose. Because that's just fun. For me, at least - and she giggles instead of protesting vehemently, so I suppose it's fun for her too.

Somebody (the downstairs neighbor, apparently) gave her a small "talking Hermione" (Jenn rather ignorantly thought it was Her-mee-own) Barbie-style doll.

I have serious issues with this doll.

Firstly, there's the hair. Crimped, straight, with string to keep it from getting messed up. Then there's the outfit. A somewhat suggestively opened robe, a short shirt, a short skirt, no undies, and these long-ass socks. It shouldn't be possible for idiot kids to perv out on Hermione, but I can almost see it with this non-bushy-haired version. She doesn't talk, that's a good thing.

Tried teaching Ana to say "Hermione" properly. She can manage either "Hurt-mine-own-knee" (hee!) or "'mione". Yes, her doll bears the name of many a makeover star in the pottersues pantheon. Of course, given the hair, I'm not surprised.

She's holding this weird necklace thingy in her hands. I have no idea what that's supposed to be.

Edit: Aha, here it is: From the 2002 wave of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets! Connect the magic charms and Hermione talks! Mix and match the beads to hear different messages. "Oooh, it might have hidden powers!", "Brilliant!", "Are you sure that's a real spell?" and more! Hermione is approx. 7 1/2" tall.

Oh god. Just kill me now. End edit.

Note to self: Must force a certain friend to read the books, as she's only seen the movies. I am Most Displeased to find that out.

Other Note to self: The day Ana is old enough to sit through a reading of a real book will be a very bright day indeed. It cannae come soon enough! (We read quite a lot today, and pointed at the pictures.)

Edit: Oh, and my plot to warp Ana's brain by singing her all those old ballads involving death, murder, and all that other good stuff is going just fine, thank you very much. It's a little disconcerting to be singing a version of... that song with the two sisters and one shoves the other into the water... and going "As they were walking along the stream" just to have a two year old join in for the "Lord, have mercy on me!" part. But fun.

And, thanks very much to Jazzy for directing me a long time back to Ten Green Bottles, the song. That song has an amazing soporific effect. Hold Ana down, and she's asleep by six green bottles.