To all US citizens 18 years of age or older and eligible to vote – get your bottoms in gear and head to the polls! Unless of course you’re like me and did a mail in ballot or voted early! Since it’s such a lovely day to cast your vote, how about more?!

Even if you’re not a US citizen, you can take part in this election – for a name for our Atlanta panda cubbie! Head on over to the Atlanta Zoo website and cast your vote for your favorite panda cub name. There are 12 choices:

Polls are only open until 7:00pm for the US election, but this poll stays open until 4pm on December 3rd. Which name did you vote for? I like complicated, so I voted Xiao Laoxiong!

Whatever his name ends up being, it’ll be synonymous with cute!

It’s time for an update on the Atlanta panda cub! I have been super stressed lately (and super busy as I’m sure you can tell with the delay in updates!), but no matter what, if I look at this little guy I always feel instantly better! He can make my blood pressure drop in nanoseconds. The following are all photos from the Atlanta Zoo website. Be sure to check out this article, it’s too cute. It even warns you about the effects of the panda baby and releases them from liabilty for stolen hearts! AWWW!

Caution: Tons of cuteness after the cut!

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I think it’s a panda baby week. With yesterday’s photos of the Atlanta Zoo panda cub and these cute little cubbies, this week might just end up being pretty good!

Look. At. That. Adorable. Fuzzy! Panda.

One-month-old twin panda cubs are held by zoo keepers during their first appearance before the public at Adventure World in Shirahama in central Japan over the weekend. The cubs — one female and one male — were born Sept. 13. It’s unclear why the female, on the left, appears to be having a bad hair day.

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My, oh my, how our little Atlanta Zoo cubbie has grown! Just look at him! I want to cuddle him until I can cuddle no more.  As of yesterday he weighed a whopping 1760.3 grams, or a little under 4lbs! Yay!

Prepare to “awwwwwwwwww”.

A bunch more after the cut!

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Amaya, a girl, and Takeo, a boy, are the newest red pandas at the Denver Zoo and are close to being on exhibit. At 3 months old, you can see how cute they are and I can’t wait until they go on exhibit so I can go see them! Below you can see how adorable they are during a vet check-up. The little squeals kill me!

Three-year-old Xiwang and Weiwei were unsettled by the tens of thousands of visitors to Wuhan Zoo during last week’s National holidays.

The pair, whose names mean “Hope” and “Greatness” in Chinese, began pacing restlessly around their enclosure, according to He Zhihua, their keeper.

“They had been getting less sleep,” he said. “We felt it would be good to give them the soup because they were fatigued and had a bit of a shock.”

Chicken soup is a traditionally medicinal food in China, and each panda was given a litre of homemade soup in addition to its regular diet of bamboo, milk and buns. “They loved it,” said Mr He. “They drank it like they drank their milk.”

Although pandas have a taste for bamboo, they are not averse to eating meat in the wild, occasionally devouring birds and insects. Another panda at the zoo, Dudu, was fed ground meat for the last decade of his life because his teeth became too weak to chew through bamboo.

Xiwang and Weiwei are refugees from the Wolong Panda Reserve in Sichuan, which was affected by the 7.9 magnitude earthquake that struck the province in May.

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I have pretty bad allergies to mostly everything: dogs, cats, mold, mildew, trees, grasses, dust, air. If it exists, I’m probably allergic.

So, especially these days, I can relate to the cute little guy below.

Seriously, I might die from the cuteness of the Atlanta panda baby.

I got a bad case of Pandababyitis.

I can’t believe I’ve never posted a link to my Great Panda Adventure. That’s what I call the trip I took to Tai Shan on his first birthday!

I took my stuffed panda that I received when I ‘adopted’ Tai through the National Zoo and was on my way. I hope you enjoy looking at the photos as much as I had on the trip. Just a warning, I love cheesy roadside attractions!

You can see the full set here.

I’ve been super busy lately (including watching the new panda baby non-stop!) and have been dealing with some issues that arose with the site pertaining to advertising (as I’m sure you’ve probably noticed). I’m trying to resolve it, so I don’t want to get into the gory details at the moment, but I’ll be sure to update you as soon as we’ve come to a resolution.

Don’t forget to enter the Birthday Giveaway before midnight tonight! I’ll be choosing a winner on Monday!

And, because he makes me so happy and makes me forget my worries for a bit, here’s a cute shot of the little fluffy panda baby at the Atlanta Zoo!

Is he not just the cutest little guy EVER?! He still needs a good nickname. I have a few in my head, but I haven’t really decided my favorite. What do you call him?