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First Birthday T Shirt Baby Girl Pink

Birthdays are the best, especially when your little girl is turning one! We are proud to introduce our new line of girl's graphic print numbered birthday tees.
This super soft light blue short sleeve baby tee is screen printed by hand in brown ink. This piece is part of our new line of original apparel available at Happy Family Clothing shop.
We have the following sizes available (Please specify size during checkout):
12-18 Months or 2T (they run small, so going up a size is recommended)
100% cotton. Soft feel, non-toxic, lead free inks were used in the printing of this garment. All of our items can be washed and dried and worn over and over to give them the extra softness and style you deserve!

Family Portrait, Matt's Birthday, 2008, California, absent, the photographer, Mike, Lauren's husband...

So, I've been Tagged by jellybeanjill13, my Chicago Flickr buddy!

Sixteen Things you might/might not know about me:

1. In addition to lousy English, I also speak lousy Italian and lousy Spanish.

2. I was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but lived my entire life in California. I grew up in the Port of Los Angeles, (Wilmington), then moved to Santa Barbara and Oxnard; I now live in the Village of Milan, Illinois, about 6000 people, but very near the hub of the Quad Cities, a nondescript collection of ugly, old towns on the Mississippi and Rock Rivers. The "Quad Cities" is reknowned as a place where childless couples go for medical treatments and, thereafter, frequently have multiple births, even quadruplets, hence, "The Quad Cities".

3. Favorite author is Gabriel Garcia-Marquez famous for the Nobel Prize and "One Hundred Years of Solitude"

4. I have never voted for a Republican candidate for any political office.

5. My first memory is of light flickering and making bright patterns on a wall; I think this came from a paper window shade flapping in a small breeze as I napped somewhere; all my life I have been intrigued by light, light patterns, reflections, flickering things, as are many autistic and schizophrenic people. I believe that this fascination with light lead to my pursuit of creative adventures in art, fine arts, photography;I have an MFA degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in Fine Arts (Drawing, Painting, Art History) and I taught Art and Art History at the college level fo many years.

6. I now work, fulltime, 40 hours a week, as a clerk-cashier at a local Lowe's Home Improvment Center in the Building Materials area...lumber, concrete, drywall, etc. HUGE store, 100,000 sq. feet, nice people to work with, but exhausting most of the time. Until you work in retail you have no clue how STUPID people are!

7. Instead of gearing my life to a career in teaching the Arts, I wish that I had taken a degree in Botany and could have worked in some aspect of genetic-engineering of plant forms. I also wish that I had learned to play some musical instrument, mostly the cello, but I didn't...I can't even read music! Favorite composor is Richard Strauss, his operas, and songs, but also some of his orchestral compositions; best, I like his "Four Last Songs" (with Lucia Popp); other music, current favorites are Mott the Hoople's "All the Young Dudes" written and composed by David Bowie, and Sheena Easton's "My Baby Takes the Morning Train"

8. I think if you're very careful, exercise, don't smoke, take your vitamins and minerals, have a happy attitude, eat four servings of fruit and veggies a day, it adds three weeks to your life span; the rest is genetics and avoiding accidents.

9. I don't believe that God has a hand in the daily events of my or other peoples' lives; all those rich preachers hammering "afterlife" have not been there, have not done that, and don't have the t-shirt. We should trust in our own sense of kindness to others and there would be peace on earth.

10. I miss my mother and father and brother and dear friends everyday.

11. I smoke and that bothers me greatly; it's addiction and I need to overcome that...not to live forever, but to have the freedom of pure air, to make my life better and more enjoyable. For what I spend on cigarettes, I could go to Europe every year for three weeks and marvel at good food there and great culture!

12. I don't know why I live here--in Milan, Illinois--it's a mystery. It's like I'm stuck. I think of it as my "prairie exile". Famous Roman poet Ovid was exiled from plush Rome to some good-forsaken place like Armenia for writing something racy about an emperor...and I feel like that, but I can't figure out what I did to deserve mosquitos in the summer and black ice in the winter. Before, in another life, I used to walk barefoot in the sand of a Pacific beach and watch pelicans dive into the rolling surf. Now it's dodging Iowa drivers in blizzards and spinning in ice, running off of I-280 into a 30 foot gully, hiking out in waist deep snow. Sometimes, when I speak here, people ask me if I'm from England...the accent...and I tell them, "no, it's Surfer-Dude-speak, I'm from California!" A foreign place, too....

13. Overwhelming things I've seen: Yellowstone National Park-Grand Tetons, Grand Canyon National Park, the Vatican (St Peter's Basilica) Rome..all much better than I had ever imagined. Things I'd like to see: China, Amazonia, Macchu Piccu, Argentina, Cuba, return to the Giant Sequoias, California, return to Gaviota State Beach, California...

14. I've always wanted to apologize to certain people, some current, some from my long-ago-past; people I offended, people I pushed off.

15. I love my kids more deeply than they

Shame on the parents that buy that awful thing for their horrid children.

Also that Child Model ought to find a different hairstylist.

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In downtown Minneapolis on July 5th, 2008, for sale in a Marshalls store in the "Minneapolis City Center," on the west side of the Nicollet Mall north of South 7th Street.