Showering

Gah, I hate showering. I think I can tie it all back to when my older sister came home after seeing 'Psycho' and telling me about it. Or I overheard her telling someone about the shower scene. Not sure how old I was, but let's just say I was very impresssionable. With a vivid imagination. I didn't end up seeing the movie myself until much later so I made it much worse in my mind. Since then, I've always bought clear shower curtains so that I can see if someone is in the bathroom with me. Also? I can't shower at night if I'm the only one home.

Do you have any weird phobias? Is mine a phobia?

I also hate swimming in really deep water because I found the book 'Jaws' while we were vacationing on the Cape. I think I was 10. The book is so much scarier than the movie. AND? I was on the CAPE. Swimming in the ocean!

Recap

A bit of an exhausting weekend. A Navy buddy of Aaron's was going to be hiking nearby with his girlfriend and since we haven't seen him since our wedding, Aaron asked him to stop by for dinner on their way up to the mountain. Yeah, fun! It was nice to see him and her but their idea of 'after work' is like 1 pm on a Friday, so I tried to get home as soon as possible on a very busy day. Office reorg, tradeshow preparations, etc. We ordered out to save us trying to cook something as this was all very last minute. It was nice, really. However, during beers after dinner (when I went up to go to bed), it was mentioned that they should consider coming back on their way back from the mountain. On Saturday. Aaron went grocery shopping Saturday morning. And then we didn't hear from them until they were, literally, 5 minutes away from our house. I was woken up from my nap with Sophie by Aaron in a bit of a panic. This was right before her bedtime, so I handed Sophie to him and ran around trying to clean up our daily mess downstairs before they got there. And then I took Sophie back and worked on getting her to bed.

Dinner consisted of pasta, etc., and Aaron and his buddy ended up staying up pretty late drinking whiskey and telling tales while I excused myself to run around cleaning up our guest room (that has never been used) and the bathroom because now they were staying the night. Don't get me wrong, they are lovely people and I have no problem with guests staying but I'd like a little bit of notice instead of during dinner: "Oh, we're not driving back down to CT. We're staying here. Didn't Aaron tell you?"

Exhausting because most of the time during dinner I was thinking about what I needed to clean and organize upstairs so they didn't think we were total slobs. I'm sure they wouldn't care, but as I said to Aaron yesterday, I don't want to be 'that couple' with the gross bathroom and unclean sheets, etc. Seriously, we have not had guests stay over, so there was a 'cat sheet' on the guest bed protecting the matress from the fur, etc.

They are world travelers at this point and don't have kids and possibly have no concept of what it means to be up since 5 am with a baby. And we had a playdate with our nephew and my brother and his wife the next morning. So, on another weekend, I wouldn't have minded Aaron staying up really late drinking with his Navy buddy. But when we have a baby who is going to be wide awake first thing in the morning and I've been up several times during the night with her, I really need him to be up and functioning in the morning.

I sound like a bitch, don't I? Oh well. If they (I actually mean 'he' because she went to bed around 11 pm or so) have a problem with me coming downstairs to tell Aaron that it is really time for him to go to bed, then they can have a baby and see how they feel. Also? We have a very adorable baby and his friend completely ignored her the whole time. Like he didn't want to acknowledge that Aaron had a family and all he wanted was a drinking buddy. His girlfriend was lovely and gorgeous and Sophie ate her up.

Sunday, after they left, we hurriedly got everything together to head to my brother (D) and his wife's (A) house for our playdate. Their son (G) is about 6 weeks older than Sophie and he, um, startles quite easily. Sophie was trying out his exersaucer at one point and A was holding G up to watch Sophie. Sophie was so excited by his presence that she kept squealing and slamming her hands down on the sides of the exersaucer and he kept getting quite startled and upset by this. I think they will be good for each other. ;)

So, now I'm tired and I should be working because it's a busy week and I have a ton to do, but I needed to get this off my chest.

Sophie Saturday!

Here I am waiting for Daddy to stop showering.

Wait a minute! That's not me!

Oh, there I am! By the Christmas tree. Yes, our Christmas tree is still up. Mommy just loves it so much and she's apparently protesting the stupid tradition of taking it down immediately after Christmas. Also, she's lazy.

Phew, that was exhausting.

Oh, Mommy: what have you done?!

It's Olivia Newton Baby!

Okay, Mommy, the pink bow? Seriously? Show them my true punk rock side, please.

As always, click on any of the photos for more. Enjoy.

Requests?

Any requests for Sophie Saturday? We have some cute spring outfits, hats, booties, flame leg warmers...

TGIF

It was a short week that flew by but I'm really glad it's almost the weekend again. It's been very busy at work and now, in addition, they are moving me to a different office. It's bigger but with a crappier desk. I'm going to have to work on that part of the deal. It's all part of a bigger reorganization of people. Any other time would be fine, but now it is slightly stressful.

Aaron's starting to get cabin fever because it's been cold and he's home with the baby without a car and it's tough to take her into town in the stroller when it's so cold out. And now we are getting snow this weekend.

I'm starting to find out one disadvantage of having a fake Christmas tree - um, it's still up at the end of February. But it's so pretty! and I love my ornaments!

Four Months!

Can you believe it? No, neither can I.

Sophie is a lovely little girl. Yes, still. I know. She's started whining more as she finds that she has a multi-octave vocal range. Also the whining is because of the teething. We think. We haven't seen any teeth yet but there is lots of drooling and fussing and gnawing so I'm sure they are coming soon.

The latest developments:

Toes! and Feets! belong to Sophie!

We ended this long weekend with a new trick - the elusive raspberry with sound effects! Not just a spitty raspberry (we had LOTS of those while training) but one with a high tone of voice behind it. She was concentrating on this all weekend - moving her lips, blowing lots of bubbles, making noises. And then out of the blue: "BRRIIP!" Aaron wanted to know why I was trying to teach her this all weekend when she could be learning math or German and then she made the sound raspberry and he melted. All over the floor. Because she is that cute and he is that in love. I have a feeling that this is going to be trouble later on.

She is a very strong little baby - she loves to stand up on us for hours. And she can sit up, almost on her own. And tummy time is a little less annoying for her. We took an idea from Sparkplug Dance to make tummy time more fun. It involves putting her on a blanket, on her tummy, and dragging her slowly around the house. She focuses on the adventure and not the actual tummy time. Plus, she's learning some balance from when we go around corners. The whole thing involves one person being in another room and then the other coming around the corner dragging Sophie. "Here comes Sophie!" And then excitement when we get to the other room. Well, it's exciting for us. She's more like: dude, my parents are so weird.

It seems like every day there is a point where we look at each other in amazement that this is our daughter. Yes, we are dorks. But we are dorks completely head over heels in love with our little pink bear.

I forgot to add her current array of nicknames: Snow Pea, Snopher, Poofer, Sophie (yes, that's a nickname), Poosniss, Snophie, Pooper, Monkey, Smonkey. I'm sure there are more but those are the most common.

Tangent

I just had to put this link up. (hat tip to K)

Imagine if you will.

How are we the land of the free and the home of the brave?

More Sophie!

I love everyone in this room.

Just look at this gorgeousness:

Also, this is what I've been working on this weekend. For the Color-iffic Swap-o-rama! (mentioned below):

Click on any of those photos for more. Including Baby in the Basement!

Weekend

So, I have tomorrow off! Yay! It's been a very productive weekend. I've been working on my green gifts for the color-iffic swap-o-rama. So far, I've decorated a box, made a cool wire ornament and a card and played with a lot of shrinky dink materials. Did you know that you can shrink no. 6 plastic in the oven? Pretty cool. So, all this playing has been with plastic I would recycle anyway. They all seem to shrink at different rates, etc. so it's been interesting.

We did end up going shopping on Saturday and Sophie was lovely the whole time. And she's been quite good, albeit quite shrieky and slobbery, this weekend. Her new thing is to shriek at the top of her octave range when she's excited. It's quite funny. She's also learned the important skill of blowing raspberries. It took all day and a lot of concentration, but she did it. She's still teething and it's resulted in lots of slobber and drool and a few meltdowns near the end of the day. Also? She likes to gnaw on anything she can get into her mouth.

I dyed my hair today and I don't like the color. It's just brown but it's like two different shades. I think the problem is that my hair is too long so that by the time I get all the hair color in and then set the timer, the hair nearest to my scalp gets cooked too long. I think I'm just going to wait to color it again until I get it cut.

Side question: why do they call a short nap a cat nap? My cats sleep all damn day.

Sophie Saturday!

click on the photos for more.

We will be headed into the neighboring town to do some shopping using some Christmas giftcards. Crafts! and Books! and maybe Old Navy!

Linkgasm

In today's political environment, would you have Sophie Scholl's courage? (not a bad namesake for Snopher, either)

I've had "Land Shark" in my head for the last couple of days and I honestly couldn't remember the reference. One quick look on Google and oh yeah, the Chevy Chase skit on SNL.

We watched 'Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-rabbit' - LOVED IT! We were laughing hysterically at a few parts. Lots of little details that were quite funny. Hilarious. Two thumbs up.

Man, I would love to make these fabulous cupboards in Sophie's room. Maybe in orange or purple instead of pink.

Are you a creative person? Fred Flare is having a 'Next Big Thing' contest.

Fridays are for teasing

Don't forget to check back tomorrow for an all new super-fantastic Sophie Saturday! With new homemade shirts and possibly a pink bear outfit (since we don't have a bunny suit)!

Fantastic!

Why didn't I think of this?

Tiny people on interesting adventures

For Styro

styro + shart
shart
sharting
styro loves to shart

Why I love my husband

Overheard while he was changing Sophie:

(to the tune of 'Imagine' by John Lennon)

Oh, you may say-ay-ay-ay you're a farter,
but you're not the only one
I hope some day-ay-ay-ay you will find out,
that stinky fart-a-a-arts equal fun

All ADD with the linking

A lot of links from all over so that I can find them again because them thar Internets are huge and all.

PatentRoom: where you can order prints and sometimes tshirts of old patent drawings. (via ReadyMade blog)

The money? It's just being handed out. Quick Rise for Purveyors of Propaganda in Iraq

So that I remember this for next year: Anatomically correct chocolate heart (via sweetney)

Homemade submarine

I'm coveting these fluffy pink earrings even though I'd probably never wear them.

Also these weird little truffle pins.

Adorable pumpkin pouf for a cat or a mini dog.

Incredible food creations - only not made of food. Bon Bons! Ice Cream Cones!

Cheney must be stopped! There are so many ways he can kill you!

How to choose quality ice cream without tasting (via not martha)

Also via not martha: I covet these light strands!

Also, also via not martha: LED throwies! Very cool idea.

Valentine

"Take me home, Valentine.
I need to push myself into you, crawl into your skin, and be as close to one as we can be. I want to pile up on top of each other like premature hamster babies, furless and albino, mashed into the corner of our plastic cage, covered in afterbirth and cedar shavings, blind and trembling, hoping we aren't eaten by our mother before dawn.
Valentine, did you just puke on me?"

(from Pamie, pop culture princess)

Happy Valentine's Day

50 things I love:

1. My husband. After all the really awful relationships I endured, how did I end up with such a sweetheart?
2. Sophie
3. Family
4. dark, dark chocolate
5. dark, dark coffee ("she'll take it black, like her soul": Aaron)
6. sleeping in on the weekends (ah, those were the days)
7. lounging around all day in my pjs
8. hearing Sophie squeal with giggles
9. watching Sophie light up when she sees her silly Daddy
10. peanut butter
11. getting Sophie to squeal
12. Sophie neck snuggles when she's trying not to fall asleep
13. Sophie falling asleep on me right after she eats
14. Otto snuggles
15. when Tabitha isn't satisfied with sleeping near me; she has to sleep ON me
16. Halloween
17. playing a really good practical joke on someone
18. that rush of adrenaline when someone jumps out at me (someone I know, not a crazy in the street)
19. cinnamon sticky buns from Merlin's
20. cheddar cheese and sour cream potato chips
21. triscuits with smoked oysters and melted cheese
22. Sophie's big smile first thing in the morning
23. crisp Fall days
24. pounds and pounds of fresh Bing cherries
25. laughing at each other's stinky and loud farts
26. the beach in Provincetown when I've been sitting out all day under an umbrella and it's windy and I am snuggled in with a good book
27. the fact that Aaron can't lie
28. the fact that Aaron is so gullible
29. the fact that Aaron doesn't leave
30. Thai Tom Khar Pak soup
31. black bean soft tacos with yogurt and extra jalapenos from Bueno Y Sano
32. staying up late playing cards with my family
33. when Aaron gets really into a movie or a tv show and he starts nodding along with the characters
34. unexpected cookies or treats at work
35. the chubby knuckle dimples on Sophie's hands
36. when Sophie whomps her legs and arms in excitement
37. when Otto and Tabitha come downstairs to snuggle after Sophie goes to bed
38. the fact that even though Sophie is starting to teeth, she's still a really wonderful girl
39. the fact that Aaron knows all the words to 'The Humpty Dance'
40. Gretchen's laughter on the phone
41. the fact that Kym liked a birthday cassette tape made up of mostly farting and burping. And some tv watching while under the influence: "this is the sound of Erika eating two peanuts"
42. Aaron's made up songs to Sophie, Otto and Tabitha
43. collecting little trinkets and doo-dads
44. staying up to make fake Play Doh brownies with Andrew after we ate the last ones because Derek was driving down and we didn't have any brownie mix and you do not want to get in the way of Derek and brownies
45. getting presents in the mail like Choppa hats and Babycakes and pirate onesies
46. the fact that Estella wants to dress Sophie up like a bunny
47. the fact that I'm finally friends with my sister Kirsten whom I've admired from afar for a long time
48. playing boys against girls Pictionary or Taboo ('molecule')
49. having a friend at work who has drawers full of goodies like chocolate covered chocolate biscottis and is willing to share them
50. when Aaron calls from home and I get to hear Sophie licking the phone

Like a kick to the head

I had another dentist appointment this morning. At which, when I made the appointment, they said that they were 'just' going to take an impression of the area to prepare a temporary tooth. Little did I know there would be unscrewing and jolting and PAIN and then three shots of Novocain and more poking and pressing and pushing and jolting. I feel like I got kicked in the head. Not at all the way I wanted to start this day.

Teefs

Sophie is teething. She hasn't broken any teeth yet, but is very, very drooly and whiney and she's a little warmer than her usual furnace-like self. Also, she chews on everything that she can grab. On the plus side, she is extremely cuddly and loves rubbing her head on my neck. Have I told you how much I love her? There is a photo of Aaron on the wall near the staircase and she smiled at it each time I walked upstairs with her today. Adorable.

All the blizzard of the century talk amounted to a big c***tease up here in the tundra. We got, maybe, 3 inches. Aaron walked into town all bundled up like the Californian he is to play war games with other nerdy, I mean fine, wonderful people, like himself. Sophie and I snuggled, read books, snuggled, cleaned up a blow-out pooping incident (hers, not mine) and snuggled a bit more. I almost got a full laugh out of her today with lots of tickles and sneaking up on her and catching her by surprise. She loves it, so don't look at me like that. She's taken to squealing in delight which is the most wonderful thing I've ever heard. She gets so overcome with happiness when Aaron comes into the room and she's just hanging out with her boring old Mommy that she wiggles uncontrollably and squeals. It would melt anyone's heart.

In other news, I've joined a crafty swap-o-rama group on flickr.com. Each month there is a different color theme and the organizers send you the name of someone to whom you should send a crafty color-specific package and then your name gets sent to someone else. This is my first time and my person is in Portugal. There are people from the US, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Portugal and Argentina from what I've read so far. Very cool. It's very exciting and will hopefully inspire lots of craftiness on my part.

Also, if Sophie suddenly goes missing, all signs point to estella.

Sophie Saturday!

I've taken over the computer so that I can give you Sophie Saturday! Aaron will be working on his paper for the rest of the day so this is the one chance I've got. I might walk into town today with Sophie but it is inhumanely cold out there right now.

Click on the photos for more.

Can't see the Forest for the Trees

I have a friend who wants the environment protected (she also thinks gay marriage is okay and abortions should be legal - but those are stories for another day) - she also always votes Republican. Not sure why. Maybe this will change her mind:

Bush administration moves to sell national forest

"The Bush administration will unveil a proposal Friday to sell up to 200,000 acres of national forest land in "isolated parcels" ranging from a quarter of an acre to 200 acres, much of it in California."

Remember those hikes you used to take through the woods? Good luck with that.

What are you doing this weekend?

We're going to be in the middle of a blizzard.

"NEAR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE HARTFORD...WORCESTER...BOSTON AND PROVIDENCE AREAS DURING THE HEIGHT OF THIS STORM.

BY THE TIME THE SNOW TAPERS OFF SUNDAY AFTERNOON...TOTAL SNOWFALL
SHOULD AVERAGE 8 TO 14 INCHES. THE HIGHEST TOTALS ARE LIKELY TO
OCCUR FROM THE HILLS OF NORTHEAST CONNECTICUT TO THE INTERSTATE 95 CORRIDOR BETWEEN PROVIDENCE...BOSTON AND THE NEW HAMPSHIRE BORDER."

I'm so glad I waited to go grocery shopping until right before the blizzard hits. that's good planning on my part. People get a little, um, crazy around here before a big snow. The good thing? It's on a weekend and we'll have time to dig ourselves out before I have to go back to work on Monday.

Of course, it could be all foreplay and no action like the last several 'storms'.

In other news, Sophie was WIDE AWAKE at 4 a.m. She had just ate (eaten? sorry, I'm sleep-deprived) and was just about asleep when we heard what we thought was knocking on the door downstairs. So Aaron got up to check things out and with the lights on and the walking and the activity, she woke up. And was AWAKE. Talking really loudly to us and squirming all around. We tried putting her in the crib in the other room but she wanted to be in bed with us. So, we tried giving her a rattle. To which she started talking even louder. Eventually I convinced her to eat some more and she finally fell asleep. Around 5:30. I normally get up about 15 minutes later. Ugh.

What's worse than that? I'll tell you. I got all the way to work and discovered I had forgotten my French Roast French Pressed (I like it dark, like my soul) coffee on the kitchen counter. Now I'm stuck drinking crapola awful bile. Today will not end soon enough.

Nacho Libre

The new Jack Black movie, Nacho Libre, looks hilarious. Of course, I love me some Jack Black.

Thoughts

The Rant: "But Bush, despite his clumsy attempts to put on a strong public face, should realize he is living on borrowed time, not only as a lame duck President but as one who could well face impeachment if enough Democrats win seats in this fall’s House and Senate elections.

“The Bush era is coming to an end – in 2008 or perhaps even sooner,” Harleigh says. “It is an era that will not be remembered fondly.”"

Also, is it just me or did Mariah Carey lip-synch at the Grammys? It sounded quite a bit overproduced and fake. I missed the beginning because Aaron and I were watching 'In Her Shoes' (not bad). And then Veronica Mars was on, so of course I watched that (excellent). I flipped back during a commercial and caught Kelly Clarkson (actually quite great) and then back again to catch the train wreck that is Mariah. Blah, blah, blah, sold so many albums, blah. She's awful. What is with the hand gesturing?

How was the rest of it?

Sophie's belly nubbin is healed! She has a normal belly button now! She also had a complete meltdown on the way home and it got quite stressful when it sounded like she was choking from crying so hard. We tried stopping so I could feed her but she got too distracted by the cars and the trees and who knows what else, so we tried to make it the rest of the way home with me sitting in the back trying to calm her down. After choking and screaming and crying and screaming, she finally calmed down and promptly fell asleep. Then she was lovely at home. Very talkative and happy and playful. Oy.

Aaron likes to take baths at night. Not wimpy, girlie baths with candles and bubbles and scented oils. Nope, just very very hot water. That's it. I just walked in on him snoring very loudly in the tub. His head all squinched down on his chest, legs straight out, arms by his side. Otto, who likes to sit in the bathroom while Aaron takes his manly scalding bath, meowed when I walked in. Aaron jumped and flailed awake and was looking at me all crazy-I-just-woke-up-and-I-have-no-idea-what-is-going-on-eyed. HA! Oh man, it's just too bad that I'm evil and will impersonate him endlessly.

Grammy Nubbins

Today is the follow-up belly nubbin appointment. It looks like the stump is gone now so hopefully there will be no more cauterizing.

In other news, tonight is the Grammys. Madonna and Mariah Carey are in an argument about which one gets to open the show. I'd love to see that cat fight. Madonna would so rub the floor with the chubby idiot.

The Valentine's Day cards from Sophie are almost done. We now just need some glue or some tape or something to finish them off. And some thumbprints from the Snopher.

Also, check out Aaron and Sophie modeling our Peanut Sling.

Gilmore Girls

My prediction for the 'shocking' Rory news on tonight's Gilmore Girls: Rory's pregnant. OR, they are just making you think that and actually the shocking news is that Rory moved in with Logan because Paris is certifiable.

Yes, I'm probably the only one still watching this show. It drives me nuts with all the fast talking and the Rory slouching, but I can't stop watching it. Also? I covet Lauren Graham's hair in the promotions.

Also? Mandy Moore is on Scrubs tonight as J.D.'s love interest. It will be interesting to see their chemistry because they are 'love interests' in real life.

I also plan on finishing up the Valentine's Day cards. I've decided they are going to be from Sophie. I plan on putting a Sophie thumbprint on them as her signature. So, if you want one, let me know by tomorrow 'cause that's when they are being mailed. She has that crazy "I'm going to be famous*" gleam in her eye, so you just know it will be a collector's item in no time.

*easily confused with the 'Just give me the boob, woman!' crazy eye.

Either way, still a cute card. From a cute baby.

Weekend

Another whirlwind weekend. We headed out early Saturday morning (well, it was more like 'early' - 8:30 a.m. - it takes longer now that we have so much more to pack). My sister lives down near NYC and the occasion was my niece's 5th birthday. As Sophie was the only baby down there, everyone got in their baby snuggles by playing 'Pass the Baby'! She handled it all really well. She seems to like the noise and the change of pace. We'd occasionally take her out of the mayhem to a quiet room so that she wouldn't get overstimulated and start projectile vomiting. In fact, there was only one incidence of spitting up and it was NOTHING compared to what can happen. And it was the day after the party. She charmed the pants off everyone and everyone commented on how alert and easy-going she is. 'Adorable', 'jowly', 'drooly', 'Cutie' were also mentioned.

With so much to see, she didn't nap very well during the day but did end up crashing out at night for longer than normal.

Other highlights: my sister gave us their very cool jogging stroller and hopefully the weather will stay nice so that Aaron can go out jogging during the day. My brother-in-law's father asked if I was now a stay-at-home mom and I said: "Nope, Aaron's a stay-at-home dad". It's interesting how the assumption is always that the mother stays home. Aaron thinks people think he is a "L"oser for staying home. It's just a different generation of people. If we could afford it, my ideal would be for us both to stay home. I feel like I've written that already but I can't be bothered to look back. We also ate some crazy Amish chocolate-stuffed donuts from PA and some very yummy salads and salmon.

In other news, I can make Sophie squeal with laughter when I give her a crazy look and then very slowly advance on her to start gobbling her belly or arms or feet. It's a whole lot of fun and I wish I could do it all day. Now all I have to do is give her the crazy look and she squinches all up and starts smiling in anticipation. She's such a great baby. Her smile just brightens our day in all its chubby, dimply, drooly, gummy wonderfulness.

No, she's not smiling in that photo; she's about to barf on Uncle Josh. Again. Poor Josh, he's 0 for 2 with the barfing. We keep telling him that she just likes him so much that she's marking him as hers.

Iraq War

To date, the Iraq War has cost $3,000 per American family. Personally, I'd rather that money went to something not based completely on lies.

AND, the Chicago Tribune estimates that the Iraq war is costing $100,000 per MINUTE.

Profiles

This is from a month ago at second Christmas. Photo courtesy of my fabulous sister.

Sophie has her daddy's ears.

Why is Bush still in power?

Watch this British news video and tell me why Bush should still be President. Bush is a liar.

ALSO: 'Can the President Order a Killing on U.S. Soil?'
And how do they define 'terrorist'?

Nut Allergies

This is a very important reminder about nut allergies.

"I'd like to think that some of these parents don't realize how serious a nut allergy is. They may think it means that if your child eats nuts he'll get hives or a rash. They may not realize it closes off his airway and can kill him by suffocating him. I really hope they don't know how serious it is. Because if they do know and they still send snack with nuts or bring trail mix to playgroup, it's the equivalent of bringing a big bag full of candies made out of rat poison."

Sophie Saturday!

But since we will be down at my sister's house for our niece's 5th birthday, Sophie Saturday is coming a day early. (idea blatantly stolen from Mia Monday at So the Fish Said)

Photos courtesy of my gorgeous sister and her fancy new filler flash. From second Christmas at my parents' house. Click on any of the photos for more.

This is Sophie in her Peanut Shell sling

Boys will be boys

So true and so hard to remember.

Boys will be boys

"Because they don't watch Hugh Grant romantic comedies and obsess over the fact that they just can't measure up in the suave department. They don't see Legends of the Fall and curse themselves for not having Brad Pitt's pouty lips and flowing mane.

They just think 'What a PUSS' and change the channel."

Bluh

Aaron just called to let me know that there is all kinds of toe-grabbing goodness going on at home.

It's calls like that that make it very hard to concentrate on these TPS Reports.