Feliz anniversario!

Today is Aunt Piu's birthday -- Cristina is 18 years old!


DSCF0832 from album 071224-Christmas Eve at Chez Biziza


A more recent photo, with another special lady:


In other developments:

• Lil' Genghis put two words together -- "want" and "not" -- in Portuguese. She's learning.
  
• She's growing -- 3 inches, about 7 centimeters (in metric), in 3 months (13 weeks metric). She's about 15 months old now. 95th percentile height, 50th percentile weight. Grandpa John says that at 24 months she'll be half her adult height. At this point, she's already going to be taller than Grandma Biziza.

This is probably a rather inappropriate place to say this, but George Carlin died. Here's some of his profanity-ridden, filthy, hilarious thoughts on death: