Revival?

"If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?" - Milton Berle



Is this the revivial of the timely blog post? Don't count on it. I realize that for the past few entires I have made vague promise to be more consistent in updates. Well, I am making the argument that "consistent" and "timely" are very arbitrary terms. Therefore "sporadic" and "occasional" are as consistent as you are going to get. When my hands turn idle, I will turn them to blog updates.

Lately, my days have been filled with a baby who is quite literally changing before our eyes. One day she is humming and grunting (which we considered her "talking") and then the next morning her mouth is wide open shouting "la-las" and "da-das". Of course this has got Alex and I in a constant repeat of "da-da-da-da-da" and "ma-ma-ma-ma" respectively. The competition has started on who she will call out to first. She loves the attention and will just laugh every time.

Since Alex was scheduled to leave this month, and will be gone for the next 6-weeks, we decided to start the cereal stage a little early. For the past two days we have given her just three or four little spoonfuls. At least half of it immediately comes back out with a sour lemon expression on her face. But it's all about the learning process.

The Happenings...

Three months and two weeks.... THREE MONTHS AND TWO WEEKS!? This morning I was notified by babycenter.com that our little Addie is well into her third month. And to be honest, I could not be happier. The baby blob is gone! No more constant wailing (because there is no more dairy in our diet), no more non-responsive infant, and the best part is actually all the new things that are happening that were absent before. We now have an entertaining baby!

I have been waiting to add new pictures to this site. I have committed the cardinal sin of new parents - twice. I have been committing camera malfeasance. First I lost the camera cord, so I could not pull pictures off the disk. Now I have misplaced the charger, so the battery has died and I cannot take any new pictures. Yes, I am a first time parent who has not taken a picture of her child in nearly three weeks. Oops! And the worst parent, I am just too cheap to buy a new charger, because I KNOW it is around the house somewhere. (Damn Sony for wanting me to spend $60 on a new charger anyway... who do they think I am?!)

Besides that I haven't even given anyone updates in the past MONTH... hey I'm busy. And I am procrastinating about becoming organized. "When work slows down I'll be more organized" "When Alex goes out of town I will get things organized". Now I am just priding myself on remembering to feed my dogs and brush my teeth before I leave the house in the morning.

We are getting Addie's 3-month pictures done this week. I am really looking forward to it, the photographer we will be working with has come highly recommended. She will actually be taking pictures in our nursery, which will be really nice. Addie is so darn smiley now and loves getting her picture taken. Every time we pull out our camera phones (our only source of picture capturing at the moment) she will pause and then plaster a huge grin across her face. She knows she's cute... we're in trouble already.