I had heard, and this may be urban legend, that the African American practice of giving children royal titles as names came out of resistance to the convention that white people called black people by their first names whereas black people called white people by their titles. i.e. -- if a grown man had to call a ten year old girl "Miss Something" she at least had to call him Prince.

I've heard that, too, though my one of my great-great-grandfathers, who was white (I come of dirt poor hillbilly farmer stock), was named Colonel Fancher. Colonel Maneus Lemley Fancher, to be more specific. I'm not sure when he was born exactly, but probably sometime in the 1850's or 1860's, since he was my paternal grandmother's grandfather, and she was born in 1906.

Gud, I'll be thinking about you. You might want to scour the paper for an indoor kid-fun event you can go to. My Brother was big on Saturday arts classes at the local art museum, which the kids loved.

Oh, and we sometimes call Annabel "Boo," because when she was a little tiny baby her fussy noises sounded like "boo." But she's 15 months old, and I find myself drifting away from Boo and toward AB for a nick.

We call her so many different things it's a wonder she knows her name.

Hee! I know most people wont' get this, but...Raquel is funny. :)

She is, and having a child named Princecharming growing up in Potomac is too. The look of horror that cross the faces of some of the hoity toity residents is hilarious! "Princecharming? Why that's an...interesting choice, dear. Let me introduce my children--Garrett, Brett, and Madison. No, no, not Garrett, Brett and Madison Smith, but Garrett, Brett and Madison Jones."

edit: Much punctuation to you Gud.

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Bleach pen with narrow and wide tips, though I did the teeny detail work by squooshing the gel into a glass and using a paintbrush. Learned it from an article in Budget Living, where someone made a giant fabric Mona Lisa with a bleach pen and it looked utterly frickin' awesome.

I really want to get a big grown-up-sized t-shirt and try to do this image.

Also, much non-contagion-spreading hairpats, punctuation, -ma and hot tea with lemon and honey to all them what's sick.

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Hey Epic!

I am slowly but kinda surely getting through my list. I have an appt at 2 though so I should likely be online less and domestic more.

I could take them to Googles of Fun (a semi-local play place the kids love and very rarely go to) where they can do a lot of playing and art. It might be a bit pricey though.

Funniest dog name experience I've had - I was walking along and hear a guy calling his dog. Cujo - like Stephen King's rabid St. Bernard. And he's calling the dog and it's not coming. So I look around.

The dog? a teacup Yorkie.

And .. Lilybean is, indeed beautiful. I hadn't realized her eyes were so blue from her other pictures. And the shirt's wonderful!

meara, would you like me to pick up anything for you? I could go by the grocery or convenience store and pick up some necessities if you need anything.

Hey Cass!

You live close to downtown, right? (Comparatively, anyway, asks the girl in Mira Mesa). You gonna try to F2F with CaBil & Ms Havisham this weekend?

Impressive list, by the way!

Sounds like fun if you can swing it, Gud. Vibing for a good weekend for y'all.

eta: Has anybody tried my photo-link from Beep Me? I'm curious to know whether I did it right.