A Daily Thing

There are so many reasons why Mira is awesome:

*She has a beard.  Which she occasionally uses by putting it in my face to wake me when she wants in under the doona during the night.  Always cute in the morning (during the night, meh).

*When she is in the back seat of the car, she leans into the turns (I call it ‘Surfing’).

*She is tiny and that alone cracks me up.  My father nicknamed her ‘La Petite Peluche’ (the little soft toy) and this is how she is referred to by my whole family in France.

*She is the most loving, yet insistent (read pain-in-the-ass) little animal.  So I guess that makes her me in dog form :)

*She makes me watch my language in the kitchen while I’m cooking because she knows if she hears swearing, I’ve dropped something on the floor (and whatever it is would disappear beyond that beard and get scoffed).  She also occasionally stands at my feet for 20 minutes on end, waiting for things to drop.

*She fake kills things when she is playing with them and she makes it look adorable.

*She does the cutest little jumps and 360 turns.

*She loves to lick ice cubes when she’s very hot.

*She has a heightened sense of self after getting a bath (which results in even more insistence).

*She single-handedly made me a dog person, when before I only swore by cats.

By the way, this is how I am brushing up on my Sesame Street characters.  And I honestly don’t know how I managed these pictures while laughing so hard and how they don’t look completely blurry.  Christian wasn’t helping by narrating a fake wild life photography commentary in the background.

(My title was inspired by this song).