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My life has been such a bore the past few days…or week. I haven’t had anything exciting or even remotely interesting happen that’s worth mentioning on here. I got stuck babysitting my 7-month old niece yesterday evening. She’s at that age where she knows who her caretakers are, and I certainly wasn’t one of them. She cried at first, but then we took a walk outside and it calmed her down a bit. She really likes being outside and the fresh breeze wasn’t too bad, either. After a while we went inside, where she proceeded to get fussy again. But it was already getting dark outside and I didn’t like the idea of being out in the dark with her. So I turned on the television and changed it to the Disney channel. I thought maybe the television would distract her, though I was very doubtful.
She is definitely my brother’s little girl. Well, that’s the end of my story. Here’s another picture of Fox, guarding my window from the evil of the outside world. He could sit by the window for hours if I let him.
This is a video of my sister’s daughter (a.k.a. my niece) having fun with the remote control. My mother and I were babysitting her while my brother and his wife went out for dinner and a movie. Although she looks to be quite the cutie patootie, she can be quite the demon child. She had been crying her lungs out before this because she was cranky for a nap. Nothing would appease her until I put her in the car seat and rocked her back and forth. I believe she’s at that age where she recognizes people and obviously she saw my mother and me as strangers. I felt quite proud at having been able to put down my niece when my mother couldn’t. The real feat of this video is not my niece herself, although she is a cutie! No the real awesomeness behind this video is the fact that it was taken using my iPhone. That’s right, my iPhone recorded this. My husband, being the awesome hacker extraordinaire that he is, was able to add this neat little feature to my phone. It was something I had always wanted, and felt that Apple should have included this along with its many other features. Thanks to my husband, however, now I do have this feature. It’s so awesome! I have to give my husband his props; he really knows his stuff. By the way, yes, I do realize that my voice sounds funny. I honestly don’t hear myself that way, but I guess that’s just how it is. I’m also speaking Spanish in the video. I’m bilingual and have learned to speak Spanish since I first started speaking. My first word was actually “papa”, which means potato in Spanish. In the Hispanic culture, however, the term “papa” refers to food in general. It could mean mashed carrots, peas, or actual mashed potatoes. We generalize everything in the Hispanic culture.
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Oddly enough, as soon as she heard Hannah Montana’s voice, she stopped fussing and calmed down. So we sat in the rocking chair and watched an hour of Hannah Montana together. Then we watched Wizards of Waverly Place. I guess she got used to me because I was able to put her down and she kept herself entertained by crawling everywhere. She also had fun taking everything out of her mother’s diaper bag. The funniest thing she did though, was fart twice. AND GIGGLED. 
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