Why naming your pet after your favourite character is a *brilliant* idea! :)

[elisi]

The Cerub (now 16 months old) is - apart from climing up everything and trying to eat anything she finds - learning quite a few words. We've had 'ma'/'mum' and 'dad' for quite a while, as well as 'bye'/'goo-bye' and 'ello' and - very unsusually - 'yes' (but not 'no'). She's very good at using 'yes' btw - whenever we tell her 'no!' she just grins widely and says 'Yes!'.

Anyway, I'm not going to list *all* her little words. Because there's one very important one that she's now (almost) mastered. In case you didn't know/had forgotten, two years ago Darcy gave me a big black (1 y.o.) cat for Christmas, and (obviously!) we named him 'Spike'. The Cherub has picked up on this - at first it was a v. cute 'Gaike!', but now she's got the hang of 'Bike' ('Sp' isn't easy to pronounce) and says it whenever she sees him. And I *know* that I'm unbearably sad, because I'm thrilled to bits that one of my baby's first words is 'Spike', but... it's just too awesome not to be happy about! :)

(Spike btw is very aptly named. He's a very good hunter, catching lots of mice and birds (and sometimes rats *shudder*), but he's also a complete softie. He *loves* people and Darcy frequently gets very annoyed with his patheticness... he is (quite literally!) a push-over!)

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[spikereader.livejournal.com]

Ah, such a clever little Cherub. Ellen's got hundreds (well it seems like it anyway) of the Littlest Petshop animals and one of the dogs is called Spike, in honour of my favourite vampire.

[elisi]

Ah, such a clever little Cherub.
She's just too cute for words. :)

Ellen's got hundreds (well it seems like it anyway) of the Littlest Petshop animals
Little Miss M has around 10. I feel your pain. *g*

one of the dogs is called Spike, in honour of my favourite vampire.
Aw, that's so sweet!