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elisi ([personal profile] elisi) wrote2007-02-02 11:18 am
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Why naming your pet after your favourite character is a *brilliant* idea! :)

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!)

[identity profile] awmp.livejournal.com 2007-02-02 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
awww, that's too adorable! :D

[identity profile] petzipellepingo.livejournal.com 2007-02-02 11:47 am (UTC)(link)
Shall we be seeing a photo of the Cherub and Mr."Bike"? And remember it could be far worse - her first word could be "NO!".

[identity profile] awmp.livejournal.com 2007-02-02 11:49 am (UTC)(link)
heee, I wonder when the cherub will say Buffy... you should name another pet after her ;)

isn't it fabulous that it's about Masturbation? back when I was in school that wasn't part of the sex ed and now she had to write a paper on it (I wonder if she blushed during the presentation *g*). plus she was bad at school last year, but this year she's doing great. I'm really proud of her.
now I only have to finish the beta-reading for the other sis. lol.

*hugs back*

[identity profile] spikereader.livejournal.com 2007-02-02 12:02 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] kathyh 2007-02-02 12:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Awwww...that's too cute.
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[personal profile] ringthebells 2007-02-02 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Awww! :)
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[personal profile] ruuger 2007-02-02 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Awwww...

When my parents got a white kitten a few years ago, my sister wanted to name it Spike, but she was out-voted and the kitten ended up being called Nemo. My sister has not forgiven this, especially since Nemo ended up looking like this :)

[identity profile] zanthinegirl.livejournal.com 2007-02-03 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
Bwaa-haa-ha!! Head tilt, even!

[identity profile] zanthinegirl.livejournal.com 2007-02-03 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
Very cute! We need pic-spam :D