A call from the birthday girl

Today is my niece's 4th birthday. The package containing her present went out Monday, and I kept my fingers crossed that it would arrive today. It did. And she called me to say thank you. Okay, she's four, so my mother dialed the phone for her. I talked to the birthday girl for about 30 seconds, because that's as long as she'll ever stay on the phone. She's much too busy playing to waste time talking to someone she can't see. *grin*

Anyway, spouse and I sent her books (of course) -- a whole bunch of books! About 15 or 20 Little Golden Books, like The Poky Puppy; and some pop-up books; maybe a Dr. Seuss or two...I can't remember everything I stuck in that box. Lots and lots of books. Mom told me my SIL was just shocked, because J kept pulling more and more books out of the box; my brother's reaction? "That's Angela..." Mom said, "He knows you pretty well." Well, um, yeah. I've had a book in my hand throughout his entire life.

I told Mom to tell J I'm glad she liked her books, and that I was sorry I couldn't be there to read them to her. Mom said she was sorry I wasn't there, either, because she was going to end up being the reader most of the time.

Mission accomplished.

my own LOLanimals

I've submitted these to my other favorite obsession, but they've never shown up on the voting page., so I'll post them here for your review.

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So? Whaddaya think? Tell me, funny? Not funny? Should I resubmit? Change a caption? How shall they be improved?