fan mail

it's very rare that anybody (other than spammers) leaves a comment on ava's blog. however, using the little contact link on the upper right there, a surprising number of readers send ava fan mail. over the years, we've gotten a steady trickle of cute letters once every couple of months. lately, it's picked up to a couple per month.

the letters all describe the same scenario: i found your blog looking on google for xyz, found your blog instead, and gosh, isn't your daughter cute. the most common scenario is "i found your blog searching on google images for 'ladybug' and found [the above] picture"

until recently, this picture was on the first page of results for both google images and bing images. lately it's slid to page two (disappointing!). our latest fan mail really made me laugh though. it was from a very sweet father in germany, who had found ava-the-ladybug while playing the google giggles with his eighteen month daughter. apparently his daughter like the picture of ava so much that they had to go back and revisit it once a day for two weeks!