Oh, wowee, thanks, Skye! It's so cute! *giggles and hugs* Yatta! Okii risu desu yo! ^.^

Hehe, awww, cute ^^

D'aww. You did a super good job with drawing everyone's favorite, clever squirrel.

The way this picture speaks to me is that, after successfully tinkling in the toilet, Zee-Zee dashes out to the middle of the living room. It is here all the adults are waiting and caught off guard by Zee-Zee's abrupt dash and stop right in the center of the room.

"Oshikko detta!" he cries.

Everyone looks to him. Not knowing that, the other day, he had watched a show on TV that, like Dora the Explorer, mixed English with a different language. In this case, Japanese.

Oshikko detta!" he proclaims again.

Everyone is still looking.

Zee-Zee then grows a big smile as, yet again, he has a chance to share how super smart he is.

"It's Japanese to say I went potty!" he cheers.

The adults, overwhelmed by the whole experience and presentation, can't help but applaud.

Heehee, that's such a cute little story! I'm the cleverest big squirrel in the world! ^.^

I'm glad you liked it. Just going by what Skye's efforts inspired me to see in my lil' dino-ducky noodle. :)

I always wondered what they used in Hirigana to represent "double consonants" that neither kana really has.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean? Do you mean like っ and ッ? Or something else?

Similar in any case, like to make "Sho" it's "Shi"+a small "Yo". I'm a little out of practice myself, both in speaking and in reading Japanese. Thought I remembered what small "tsu"s were used for, and have realized I can't remember that at the moment either.

Small tsu repeats the first letter of the character before it, so ta with a small tsu in front of it becomes tta.

Thank you.