To the Back?

Becky's grandmother bought us a pack of Huggies for our stay at the lake. Instead of baby Sesame Street characters, they have the cute animals from Winnie-the-Pooh as babies as the diaper art. Why does Pooh have to be a baby? Isn't he already child-like enough? The strange thing is that they have Tigger on the rump. This is confusing at 4 a.m. since it would be more natural to have Winnie as the icon for the Pooh side of the diaper.

Sleeping All Night?

I put Josie to bed a little after midnight and fell asleep. In what I thought was the middle of the night, Josie howls. She's up. And I look at the clock. It's 7:11 a.m. She slept until I was supposed to wake up. And she woke up at the right time to promote the fine products of 7-Eleven. They don't have those in Raleigh anymore. It stinks cause I do like getting collector cups when I go to the Outer Banks.

Why don't they make a Similac Slurpee so that we can both enjoy sucking away in the afternoon?

double the effort

Sony ought to come up with a Onesie that features the buttons for Playstation 3 on the back. This way you can hold the baby and play Gears of War 2. Kill demon thingies while burping the baby. Men will have an excuse to hold a baby without looking like a sissy. You can't do it with a Wii cause there's a chance you'll hurl the baby at the flat screen during a game of tennis.

Normal sleep

During our vacation up at the lake, we allowed my mother-in-law to keep Josie over night. It was strange to put her in a different car and wave to her as they drove away. But we need a little vacation during the vacation. The bad part was that I didn't sleep through the night. I woke up at the same usual times and caught myself staring at the end of the bed where she wasn't since we also gave her the packnplay. After waking up and having breakfast, I felt myself jonesing for the kid.

The good part was she wasn't a menace to the mother-in-law. there were no real horror stories - except them trying to snap together the packnplay. It was good to hold her again. although that didn't last too long since I then went downstairs to admire the 65 inch high-def set. That could have been Josie.

How Fashionable

This season's ultimate accessory is "baby drool." It'll be hotter than the Snuggie

14 weeks

Hard to think that it's only been 14 weeks since the baby popped out. She's getting big now. She's too big to put in the microwave so my nightmare of hippies babysitting and microwaving the baby and putting the turkey in the crib have passed.

She's starting to drool so during the day I just stick a bib on her no matter what she's wearing. I think we should all wear bibs during the day - even if they aren't illustrated with a lobster. Although I do look forward to the day we can sit on the deck and smash apart a lobster together. Just have to make sure she doesn't eat the gills.

knotty problem

two things Josie did inherit from me are my cowlicks - the cowlicks I had when I had hair. She's got one up front and one in the back. I have this sad feeling that if she ever dyes her hair red, she'll look like Woody Woodpecker. Best not make her wear a blue sweater.