I should probably tell this story here.

[flutingfrenzy]

So I gave the giant microbe plushes that I bought at Dragon*Con to my friends' kids, as planned. I asked Imogen, the older one, whether she ever got sick ("No.") and if she knew that when she got sick, it was because there were tiny little animals called germs in her body that were making her feel bad ("...:D") and that...here's what some kinds of

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[clodia_risa]

LLOL.

This is my new internet-thingy. I means "literally laughed out loud".

Also, ADORABLE.

[flutingfrenzy]

Oh man, it was SO ADORABLE. These kids, they must be seen to be believed. Sometimes I am afraid that they might be supersaturated with adorable, and that maybe introducing even a little more adorable into their systems will result in a precipitation chain reaction that will turn them into rock-hard statues made of solid adorable. It...it keeps me up at night.

I'm in favor of LLOL. It fills a much-needed void. Of course, with the way "literally" is headed, soon we'll need to say "ALLOLLFR," meaning "actually literally laughed out loud, like for real."

[evilhippo]

Awww. Look what you've done, you've gone and forced their dad to give the "you're a nerd talk" before they were ready! (Best talk ever! I wish I'd known who the best captain of the Enterprise was at that age. (-;)

[flutingfrenzy]

I once read this Dear Abby column in which the letter writer and her (ex-?)husband had decided that it was a good time to tell their preteen son that his father was a crossdresser. The son was, unsurprisingly, completely freaked out and Abby said they should have either waited until he was an adult or let him know about it from his early childhood so that he would grow up seeing it as normal. What I'm saying is, there's no way Imogen's going to get all the way to adulthood at this rate without realizing she's a nerd. I think it's just better this way.

Also: you know the whole "what does the ___ say" game? Her brother (who is almost two) knows what the Enterprise "says." He has a little glidey-hand gesture for it and everything. Apparently Star Trek on Netflix is how they do family time.