This long weekend Arthur was a super happy baby. Lots of smiles, not so serious. It made me wish ***even more*** that I was a work at home mom ( Read more... )

I was scrolling down through an email trying to find the relevant bits and when i got to the bottom (relevent bits missing, of course) I saw this at the top of the screen ( Read more... )

The line practicly started at our front door.  Arthur was very well behaved but refused to smile at the nice lady who kept talking to him in line ( Read more... )

Last night, Arthur - as if he had always been doing it - Flipped from his back to his tummy. And thereafter, every time we put him on his back - Flip! onto tummy. And it is elegantly done - where most of his movements are a little wobbly.

And he always looks surprised - like "I didn't want to be on my tum - why am I on my tum?"

What it is called when you manually make a baby's lips move and then sing for them with accompaniment.

Jaffer does it a lot with songs from Sweeney Todd, and with "Bless your Beautifull Hide" from 7 Brides for 7 brothers.

Kale performed "Cat's in the Cradle" with Arthur. It was meant as a loving dig at Jaffer's continued lateness back from work - but ( Read more... )

Thank you Wikidary for giving me a good laugh while learning about poetry.

You can sing part of Dr. Seuss' "If I ran the circus" to the tune of Leonard Cohen's "Famous Blue Raincoat" because they are both written in amphibrachs. (a metrical foot used in Limericks. It consists of a long syllable between two short syllables - like  "Amanda")

All rea ( Read more... )

Hooray! Tomorrow - no work ( Read more... )

Now that we have the daycare situation taken care of, Arthur is resisting bottle feeding. And a google search will show that this is a common issue, that everyones advice is the same (try every nipple, try every position, and we've tried everything except using formula or scalding the milk before storing which isn't possible here at work). The " ( Read more... )

Jaffer and I traded in the 2dr Focus for a Taurus SE. Friends can now sit in the back without losing feeling in their limbs - bonus ( Read more... )

Entering course and transcript information - while numbing to the brain - is simultaniously making me want to go back to school. Some of the classes sound fascinating. "Finite Mathematics" sounds cool - and like there is an end to the math. "Intro to Anthropology II: Morocco" sounds positivly sinfull ( Read more... )