This morning, when the monkey had been nursing for a good hour or two and my back could take NO MORE of laying on one side and pretending it was comfortable, I gave up and attempted to detach. Always risky — unlatching a sleeping nursling is a delicate maneuver requiring both a gentle touch [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Funny monkey
Posted in Monkey, excruciating cuteness of on November 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Owwwwww
Posted in A little cheese with that whine? on November 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My shoulder has been really hurting over the last week, and I finally figured it out (thanks to the wise Jeanette at Crunchy on the Inside) — apparently I am suffering from mater scapulitis. I have only myself to blame for it, though; my personal case is, I believe, a direct result of my [...]
Unpacking cuteness
Posted in Monkey, excruciating cuteness of on November 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sitting in our living room, among the bags from an overnight away. Ilze walks up to me saying her word for “bra” (it sounds about the same, although the “r” is not so much heard as implied). I turn, and she has a top of mine in her hands.
“That’s mama’s shirt, Ilze [...]
Cuteness I am thankful for
Posted in Monkey, excruciating cuteness of on November 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Signing with your baby is a great way to bridge the communication gap months before they are able to verbalize clearly. It can help ease the frustration of baby/toddlerhood, and provides children with an early inroad to language.
And if you end up getting to see your toddler beg a friend’s cat to come over [...]
(*insert chicken noises here*)
Posted in Uncategorized on November 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
All right, I didn’t do it. Ended up rethinking it when I realized how frequently I would need to get into a salon to have a short hairstyle trimmed.
Instead I had the stylist re-dye the whole lot of it so that my roots were hidden, and the glaze she put on is supposed to fade [...]
I am officially freaking out
Posted in The crazies on November 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I have an appointment tomorrow morning.
To chop off all of my hair.
I’ve been waffling back and forth on this for months, tired of the struggle to find time to wash it thoroughly and the embarrassment of going out with oily hair when I inevitably failed at the former. Tired of throwing it into a [...]
Married to a (semi) celebrity
Posted in The (first) love of my life on November 15, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Check out this Barenaked Ladies video — if you look carefully during the sequences where Matt is dancing in the middle of the screen, and check off to the left of him, you might spot V, clapping his hands and enjoying the show. Heck, if you watch all the way to the end of [...]
Is it any wonder?
Posted in Monkey, excruciating cuteness of on November 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I usually try to get my showers in during the morning rush, before baby wakes up and before V has to leave for work. Today, though, I caved — I put on Ilze’s favorite episode of the Muppet Show (with Elton John as the host, circa 1977) and bolted for the bathroom. (In [...]
Random cuteness
Posted in Monkey, excruciating cuteness of on November 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
She’s counting crayons at her little play table while I eavesdrop.
“Wun. Twoooooooo. Feee. Fo. Fo. ‘Ix.”
(She hasn’t figured out ‘five’ yet.)
Attention, sports fans!!!
Posted in Pictures, Uncategorized on November 4, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Today she cheered for the Seahawks for the first time!*
We were hanging out, nursing and watching the game, and she kept popping off to wave her hand at the television and say “ah-ka! ah-ka!” I couldn’t figure it out; it sounds like the word she uses for “carrot” and “avocado”, but it wasn’t [...]
