Hanna and I are playing a wonderfully silly game where I try to repeat back to her her noises. I’m not very good at it, she’s quite the virtuoso with her gurgles and squeaks, and I just can’t get high-pitched enough, but she seems delighted with my efforts all the same.
Ryan tries to call the baby the same way he calls the cat. It doesn’t work on either of them.
I woke up super early this morning with an upset stomach. That’s hardly surprising, after all the upsets of yesterday. Still, I’m holding off on breakfast until I’m sure I’m not going to throw up. But Hanna didn’t start crying first thing this morning, instead I knew she was awake because she was making clicking [...]
Hanna’s crib and her changing table are right next to each other in her room, but she knows the difference between what happens when you set her on one as opposed to the other. Her changing table makes her smile, because her bottom is about to be clean and dry again, but her crib makes [...]
One of the only good things about being pregnant (other than gaining a baby, of course) was that my hair and my nails got incredibly healthy. Now, the hormones are starting to shift back, and my hair is falling out. At least my nails are still looking good. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about [...]
It’s not that I’m not happy that the Senate finally came to their senses on Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, because I am, but it makes me sad that as a country, we’ll give everyone the right to kill people before we’ll give everyone the right to marry the person they love. It seems like we [...]
Sometimes, I’ll put Hanna in her swing and then just walk around the living room, just for the fun of seeing how long her eyes keep following me. She’s definitely mastered the ability to track a moving object across the midline of her vision, and at quite a distance too. Moving her head from one [...]
Watching Hanna try to stuff her entire fist in her mouth is highly entertaining.
The nursing bra really spoils the effect of the lace nightgown, but on the other hand, I don’t want to leak milk on my lingerie. Decisions, decisions.
Well, I survived the first day, and I did it without too many tears. My coworkers had covered my desk with streamers and bought me a bottle of Scotch, which helped a lot. I even sort of remember how to do my job, and it only took me four tries to remember how to log [...]
