I posted about this on FB, but feel the need to rant a little at length, and really what better place is there for that than LJ ( Read more... )

Mica turned two on Saturday. It's hard to believe how fast he's grown, and how far he has come from the little baby he was just two years ago. It is also a little tragic how infrequently I've posted about his milestones, so here's a little snapshot of Mica, age two.

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Mica got his first haircut today. I saved a lock to put in his baby book, and took a bunch of before pictures because I knew, in a way, that my baby would be gone along with his curls. He does look older now, though not as much as I had feared, I guess because he hasn't really been a baby for a while now. He is a genuine walking (or preferably ( Read more... )

So I don't twitter, which is where this really took off, but I do follow enough writing blogs to have heard about it quite a bit. I'm not going to go into the whole story here, since other people (like Booksquare, Neil Gaiman, and Smart Bitches) have done that pretty thoroughly, but the up shot is that, over the weekend, a whole bunch of books, ( Read more... )

Mica woke up this morning with a dry diaper. He protested going to the potty mightily, but once he was there, he peed and peed and peed. While this doesn't happen every morning, it certainly isn't unusual either. If he starts having a rough time sleeping early in the morning (like at 4 or 5) I'll sometimes ask maxemulien to put him on the potty--which he ( Read more... )

Raine and I replaced our garbage disposal last night. It was a pretty simple job, fortunately, and made much easier by having someone else hold the flashlight and hand me tools. A job like that is also much more fun with a partner ( Read more... )

Mica has very distinct preferences sometimes. He would rather wear pajamas than anything else, expect perhaps hats and gloves. Gloves are particularly cool, cool enough to make up for the fact that they render his hands largely useless. Chanting is fun, especially if he gets to ring the bell. Music is nice, though it's better if he gets to push ( Read more... )

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Last week, inspired by something zathrus posted, I freed Mica's walker from the chaotic pile of toys in the play area, and moved it to the hallway, where if he did push it, it had some chance of going somewhere. He loved it. He loved so much he would scorn chances to go outside in favor of the walker--which is really saying something since he loves to ( Read more... )

I've had some thoughts swirling around in my head about our system of government, or really our election process, and a lot of the commentary on the inauguration today brought them to the forefront. We have a process, a rather remarkable process really, of regularly and orderly shaking up our government. We have elections instead of coups, and ( Read more... )