Tails of Pigs

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Here are a few shots of our girl wearing Jessica-crafted pigtails. She pulls off the pigtail look, but I don't know if it's going to catch fire across the nation.

Here she is sitting and probably day-dreaming about the Little People. And by Little People I'm not using a politically correct term for the height impaired. Nor am I talking about St. Patrick's Day Sprites. No. Our Girl is Obsessed with the Fisher Price Little People. They are semi-obese school children with abnormally large hands and seem to go on a number of totally unsupervised adventures in Discovery City. She watches their DVDs. She plays with the toys. She loves Little People. And one Little Person in particular. Is it Maggie, the brainy one with the glasses? Or Eddie the blond kid with the incredibly intelligent pet frog? No. It's not even the sickeningly sweet Sonia Lee. Our Girl's favorite is none other than Michael. He appears on the screen and she screams his name. Michael seems an odd pick if only for the fact that he is always performing some sort of improbable trick or another. For instance, Michael can rope a cloud and then put it into a flattened bus tire. Michael can also make birds out of clay and have them come to life. Michael drives Andrew crazy. It's ridiculous. To dry out the Farmer's crops, Michael drew a sun on a piece of paper, walked up a rainbow and hung his paper sun in the sky. He then turned on his sun, which of course super-heated the Farmer's crop so that it exploded into popcorn.
Michael is nuts. Or a warlock.
But our girl loves him.

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