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[la_rainette]

In the classroom during lunch break.

rainette *is opening Big Box full of small surprises for the kids* Hey, TADPOLE! Come help me unpack this!
Tadpole *arrives a-running*
rainette: I just received the SURPRISES I ordered! You can pick one if you'd like.
Tadpole: YAY! THANK YOU! *rummages in box, pulls out fluffy rabbit toy* ... oh...
rainette: Oh my, Tadpole! A BUNNYRABBIT! Just for you!
Tadpole *hugs her bunnyrabbit and beams with Joy* YES! Now I have SIXTY*!
rainette: ...
Tadpole: I had fifty-nine, now I have one more, that's SIXTY! I have SIXTY bunnyrabbits.

The bunnyrabbits have taken over the world. Good God, I hope they stop breeding.

* Actually, she has 61 rabbits in her room. She doesn't count my stuffed rabbit toy, from when I was a child, because it isn't technically hers, it's just on loan from me. And yes, I do realise that it's a lot of rabbits. What can I do? She just really likes rabbits. :D

Comments

[fox]

Huh, here's something I never learned. What is the French, please, for "bunnyrabbit"? I have lapin but not any diminutive derivatives.

(Always a fan of learning new things. I would have said I was on the weak side of fluent when I fetched up in Paris at age 20, and promptly failed to produce agrafeuse. Ancora imparo, dude. [g])

[la_rainette]

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There is no French for bunnyrabbit, actually. Maybe because, erm, we EAT rabbits. And people don't necessarily have terms of endearment for food, I suppose :D

When you're ME, however, you tend to call them "titipapin", because this is what Tadpole used to call them when she couldn't yet pronounce "petit lapin" properly, and it's just super cute. :D

[copperbadge]

Sixty bunnies! :D

It's good she's keeping track, in case they rise up against you and you have to make sure you've "taken care" of them all. :D

[la_rainette]

I KNOW! Some day Tadpole's bunnies will TAKE OVER THE WORLD! :D

No kidding -- we had to put all her stuffed toys into giant plastic garbage bags for 2 weeks (well, not the very favourite ones, which went into the freezer, but all the other ones) as a measure against headlice contamination, and we filled FIVE BAGS before I gave up and said "no more".

She has that many stuffed toys. And she keeps asking for more!

[drazzi.livejournal.com]

Tadpole is well on her way to being a big bunny collector! :D *pets her huge giraffe collection*

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

:D Bunnies and SHINY ROCKS. She collects both.

It's getting more and more difficult to find suitable names for the bunnies, though!

[drazzi.livejournal.com]

Ooh shiny rocks, eh?

That's why I can only name my most special giraffes. Just not enough names!

[plantmom.livejournal.com]

There are worse things to have 60 of. Enjoy these times; they don't last forever.

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

Oh goodness, yes, I know, and I am enjoying every minute! :D

It's only when we have to bag all the Not-Quite-Favourite-Stuffed toys in plastic bag (to avoid cross contamination by headlice) and that I RUN OUT OF PLASTIC BAGS that I sort of wonder if we don't spoil her a little bit... :D (Hey, I am fine with that. She's a lovely little girl and it makes her happy)

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

YOU'RE EVIL! :D

We still haven't told her that French people EAT rabbits. It may scar her for life! :D

[i-phianassa.livejournal.com]

Tell her to go to the University of Victoria when she grows up! From what I hear they have quite a few bunnies hopping around their campus.

Here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAQMyU4-SYI) is a shaky video, there are tonnes to be found on YouTube under "uvic bunnies". :D

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

I will watch them! (Can't from work, but will do tomorrow evening :) ) Thank you!

[crosschick.livejournal.com]

I collect Vintage Cabbage Patch Kids which is slightly lame given i'm 21 but well...I guess I never grew out of it.

All my soft toys from childhood are in a hammock hanging in my bedroom.

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

I don't think Tadpole will ever grow out of collecting Stuffed bunnies, the way this is going, and I'm fine with it. :) As Plantmom said, there are worse things to collect.

Cabbage Patch Kids are perfectly lovely things to collect too! :D You should post pictures, I'll show them to the girls!

[muffytaj.livejournal.com]

Haha, we have lots of bunnies and ducklings at my campus. I fear she would try to capture them!

At least we don't eat rabbits in Australia. Mostly because we infected them with a disease in order to try and kill them all and now we can't eat them but I don't think she needs to know that part :p