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Actually, I looked more like a long-lost Spice Girl.

Miss T went to the doctor yesterday for her 6-month checkup.  She’s growing well (which I knew), 90-95th percentile for height, 50-75th (which seems kind of a wide range) for weight.  She has gained exactly 7 pounds since birth, now tipping the scales at 16 pounds 11 ounces.  Similar to AE at that age, but he was […]

This week has me wondering…

Mulling over media While up with Miss T in the wee hours this morning, I caught the last few minutes of Monk on USA.  After it ended, this message appeared on the screen:  We will now join the USA Network programming already in progress.  Wait, what?  Monk is original USA programming.  It’s not like I had been watching […]

Weekend Recap

The weekend was mostly uneventful, as our weekends typically are.   We did manage to fill the time with an assortment of non-events. Miss T continues to work toward crawling and occasionally gets very angry that she is still mostly immobile.  She has spent the last several nights sleeping in her carseat to alleviate the problem of […]

Friday Randomness in the form of a photo essay.

I am really hyper at the moment!  And I have positively no idea why, but I do find it preferable to the extreme sleepiness that I am usually feeling this time of day.  When you get as little quality sleep as I do, you do not question where the energy is coming from.  You are […]

The State of the Household

This morning AE was lounging on my bed and harassing the cat when suddenly he announced “Her heartbeat smells like fur!”   Um, what?  I questioned him and pointed out that heartbeats don’t smell like anything and he clarified further with “It SOUNDS like thunder but it SMELLS like fur!”  Okay then.