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March 03, 2005
Homeward bound
The Bean's Big Thing these days is to wake up at four a.m. and be ready to party down, which in his mind involves reading books, drinking bottles and watching Elmo. As you might imagine, none of this is very appealing to us at that time of day. So this morning, my husband went downstairs for the usual round of shushing, diaper changing, bottle administering and Elmo avoiding, but the Bean would not be silenced. After an hour and a half, we opted for the Cry It Out method, which we never do but hey, sometimes you simply run out of options. So the Bean howled in his crib for fifteen minutes or so, then abruptly stopped. I of course had to hold the baby monitor up to my ear in order to make sure I could still hear his breathing, which I could. Then, after about five minutes of silence, he started LAUGHING. Paging Dr.Creepy, we've got a patient for you!
This weekend I was on the East coast to celebrate the 80th birthday of my beloved grandmother, G. Bear. My family and I worked up a little play in her honor that involved live crabs, Emeril, and scrimshaw. With a script like that, success was inevitable.
As a parting gift, while driving me to the airport my mother announced that she didn't like visiting Seattle because it was "old, arid, and dirty". I'm like, um, what? If you are going to insult the city in which I have made my home for the last decade, at least be accurate and call it something like "mild, mountainous, and overcaffeinated yet oddly unambitious".
Posted by Max at March 3, 2005 12:30 AM