Semi Gratuitous Icon Post

This is my new icon for posts focusing on my daughter.
This post did have a new icon I was going to use when writing about my daughter, but I was informed she didn't like it very much. So now it's got a 'motherhood' icon, but the rest of it is still relevant.


The last one I had, a little blonde girl with a sweet-mischievous-daydreamy smile and a dress-up crown, just wasn't working.


(icon by iconsbycurtana)

You see: despite my archetype, and despite her given name and her early nickname of TLP ("the little princess"), my daughter is not a princess.

She's a wolf.
A young wolf -- but a wolf.

Her father and I are bears, so I'm not sure where this came from.
No, wait -- my sister is a wolf, so it's in the family somewhere.

I've been realizing for a while that it's past time to retire the three or four childish nicknames I use with her. She's tolerated them with uncommonly good grace for a budding adolescent (although I never used them in front of anyone else), but they were becoming ridiculous. This morning I realized what her new nickname is, offered it to her, and she accepted.

So she gets a new icon as well.

Here's a larger version of the original art: