Cria cuteness!

[venetia_sassy]

It's so much cooler today, thank goodness! It's supposed to heat up over the week but at least we get a bit of a break.

Before the happy thing of the day (besides cool weather) something alarming: Mum found a dead funnelweb spider in the living room this morning. Aghh, aghh, aghh and ick. At least it was dead. Thank you, exterminator!

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There is a BABY ALPACA in the next street! And it is SO CUTE! Mum told me about and I saw it as we drove past one day. It was lying in the grass, head up, all solemn and fuzzy white and soft. When we went out a few days later, I asked Mum to drive back via that route so we could stop and have a better look.

SO CUTE! And the four adults had just been shorn in the last day or so and they looked ridiculous. Really, really ridiculous, all neck and leg, trying to have a scratch and nearly toppling over. When the baby alpaca (I'm standing there going, "... foal? Calf? What are they called?" Mum says, "Cria." Because my mother knows these things) is more coordinated than the adults, it's pretty funny.

Here, have some stylishly shorn alpacas.

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Huh, it's almost my birthday. Just a few more minutes! Funny, a few days ago (on Brother's birthday, yes, we did get to see him, no, we have not seen Nephew #1 for his yet, although he was very happy we called to wish him happy birthday) I was trying to remember how old I'd be. Remember when you were a kid and each birthday was soooo important and the year was sooooo long? Why does that change, do you think?
 

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[turps]

Alpacas are so cute, and I love those photos.

Also, happy birthday!

[venetia_sassy]

I must say the ones in the next street don't look nearly as stylish. But they're still cute. :)

Thank you!

[turlough]

I'm glad to hear it's a little cooler. Even a small break is welcome when it's been hot for too long. Also, ack! scary!!

Those shorn alpacas look hilarious.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Here, have some virtual cake. *points towards icon*

[venetia_sassy]

It's blissfully cool today as well. I'll take it!

NO FUNNELWEBS! I'm glad the landlord had the spraying done!

The ones in the next street look even sillier if it's possible.

Thank you! OMG, look at that cake ...

[glitteryv]

DNW to the dead spider!

Aww, shorn alpacas are LOLARIOUS! I can only imagine how adorable a baby alpaca would be in person. ^_^

I think it changes because we've gone through many of them? I mean, they don't stop meaning something, but our experiences most deffo give us a kind of perspective we didn't have as children.

FWIW, I get really moody/mopey a few days before my birthday. I've got no idea why, but there we are.

[venetia_sassy]

*shudders* At least it was dead! We've had live ones before ...

The baby is so wee and solemn-eyed while the adults are stumbling around nekkid, trying to have a scratch. It's hilarious.

Yeah, I think it has do with memory and experience, as in when you're a kid EVERYTHING'S big and important, because most of it's new but your life is also necessarily circumscribed by what a kid can do. So a birthday is big because it's still a new thing but it's also something often kid-oriented in our society. If that makes any sense. (Plus, when I was I was kid, that was when I got new toys. That doesn't seem to be how it happens these days but it was for me ...)

Me, these days I tend to forget/not really pay attention until right beforehand even though my nephew's birthay is two days earlier and my brother's is five! Actually, maybe that's why!