ring!!!!!!!!!

if you ever want someone to call you, just put your sleeping baby in the crib. three minutes into her nap, you'll get that phone ringing and a screaming baby.

why can't people see through their phones to know when it's a bad time to dial me?

so sweet

once more the baby falls asleep on me while we're watching The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

I really should have named her Magenta.

Ahhhhhhh

one of the gifts the baby received that wasn't a gloworm was a set of barrels. They come apart and you can stack them. What I've found the child likes is when I carefully pile them up four high. She smiles and then slaps them down.

my child is now in her godzilla phase. I think this will last until she's 48.

after all the gifts are home, the baby still loves the wrapping paper most of all.

How to make it easy

Here's a great tip for parents of their first baby that's enjoying its first Christmas - Don't buy them too many gifts. In fact, if you have a lot of close relatives that you'll be visiting on Christmas day, you might consider not buying them anything. Cause odds are that no matter what you buy them, someone else is going to wrap it up for them.

Since the little baby has no real clue about Christmas, you can hit the after Christmas sales looking for stuff the baby didn't get.

This plan can only work for at least two Christmases. By the time the third year hits, they're clued in that Santa doesn't show up on the 27th.

Santa?

sure the baby wakes up at 4 a.m. and 7:30 a.m., but she doesn't care about coming downstairs to see her gifts. Nope. She just wants a bottle and a chance to talk away. This is the calm before a decade long's snowstorm of sneaking down the stairs.

she has a bit of it down

In the Christmas eve fun, we discovered she does know how to rip off wrapping paper. However she likes to eat it instead of knowing what's beneath. It's kinda like someone who just likes the taste of fried chicken skin over the meat.

Time for her to watch all 24 hours of A Christmas Story so later in life she swears she had an Uncle Ralphie who kept going on about wanting a Red Rider BB Gun ever holiday season.