I sent an email to a friend today, and realized I’d included some noteworthy pieces that might be interesting—or at least entertaining—to more than one person:
For Thanksgiving, we went to PA to visit my sister’s family. My sister had a baby boy two weeks earlier. Graham seemed hulking, comparatively. ;)
Other noteworthy items
- Graham is trying to learn how to crawl, eating solid foods, and keeping us pretty busy with his antics. This weekend we had the first real snow here, and I pulled him around the back yard in a sled. So far, parenting = subjecting the child to my whims. We'll see how long that works well . . . haha
- After an entire autumn with 12 dogs (Our dog, 10 puppies, and a friend’s golden retriever), we are down to just 2 again. Chicago, the puppy, recently chewed up a baby spoon and a baby bowl, and also threw up on the floor three times in a row. I think this is what they call "Domestic Paradise."
- In the fall I started selling things on Facebook Marketplace, and have been utterly delighted by how people will buy anything. Really. Actual words I said to Curtis (he’s very wonderful): “People will pay you for your junk, and then take it away for you.”
- When you go out in public with a baby, everybody talks to you. It’s so fun to have a good reason to interact with people. I love how Graham always brings an automatic smile.
- On the flipside, here are a few things that cause irrational grumpiness: Sleep deprivation. When the baby wakes up from a nap early. When the baby wakes up in the middle of the night. When the baby falls asleep on the way home from anywhere and then can’t sleep for his nap. I underestimated how fixated on sleep I would become as a parent.
That’s all, for now. Oh, and of course, a picture.
Newton’s Fourth Law: Give the baby lots of fun toys, and what does he want to play with? The heat vent.