My Silly Baby

So, I'd like to post a couple of pictures of my baby daughter, Peace.

See if you can notice a common theme in these photographs.

Here's some with her grandma (my mom, the one who got her gallbladder out):

Let's go in for a close-up of that last one:

What do I do with this kid? That kind of grabbing really hurts. One time she grabbed my nose so hard it started to bleed.

And she is constantly biting things and puts everything in her mouth.

Here is another thing she does. See the bottom of the toilet bowl here:

She takes that white thing off and starts sucking on it.

And if I take that white thing off so that she can't get to it...

Then she sucks on that gross nubby thing like it's a nipple. (Note: I don't let her do this on purpose. It just happens sometimes. You know how it is. Right? Right?)

But I love this silly little baby of mine.

Another Ugly Shirt

I am going to write a post that is probably going to make me seem like a selfish, heartless person. But I am not.

Here it is:

My son, Ezra, recently acquired this shirt as a hand-me-down:

I can't stand it. I talk to my husband about how I want to rip it up and burn it when Ezra is not looking. My husband says to me, "Why can't you just be happy that it makes him happy?" (Which it does.) But I cannot.

I get a visceral reaction every time I see this shirt. (This shirt is almost as ugly as this one.) And, see that car there on the top, left-hand side? IT LIGHTS UP! That's right: IT LIGHTS UP!

It is also just the whole commercialized having-branded-characters-everywhere-thing that has taken over our society and that I don't want to be a part of. Ezra first discovered Lightning McQueen through books at the library (because the having-branded-characters-everywhere-thing has apparently taken over our libraries), and he loved them (which, of course he did, because they are marketed so that he will do so).

But I don't care. I don't care how much he loves Cars. I don't care how happy it makes him. All I want to do is get rid of that shirt because it makes me want to throw up every time I see it. Same with the Transformers shirt we got from that lady at church.

I'm sorry if this makes me selfish, but I can't help it. Please forgive me for having sensitive eyeballs.

Sex and Socks

I said to Vernon (quietly), "We haven't had sex in awhile."

And Ocean said, "You haven't had what in awhile?"

And I said, "Socks. We haven't had socks in awhile. You know... because it's summer."

Smiley Apples

If you haven't tried an apple with cheese yet, now is the time to do so. It is one of life's greatest pleasures. An apple without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze.

Here is a cute little recipe for you:

• Cut apple into slices.
• Spread two slices with some organic cream cheese. (This is hard to do with a knife. "Use your fingers," my daughter told me. "It works better." And it does. So use your fingers to spread the cream cheese.)
• Cut some cheddar cheese (organic and raw) into little squares that you will stick on the cream cheese and use for the teeth.

Isn't it cute? (Answer: Yes, yes it is very cute.)

William Emerson Consult, Part 2

I took Ocean to her consult with William Emerson today. It was rather uneventful and nothing magical happened like the time I took Peace. He spent a lot of time asking her questions, and focused a lot on how her mouth moved when she pronounced words. He said she had some torsion with her narrow mouth, or something like that. He didn't really do anything to resolve what I thought might have been patterns set from her birth, and seemed to be more focused on her mouth torsion, or whatever the heck was up with that.

I don't know. The visit did leave me kind of disappointed, as I guess I was looking for something like what happened when I took Peace.

And then he did some biodynamic craniosacral work on her, and that was that.

I guess the thing with this type of energy work is that it may have effect that you don't see immediately. So, maybe, a couple of weeks from now, I will see patterns changing. I don't know.

I would still recommend him, especially if you have a baby, and definitely if you have a child (of any age) with lots of birth trauma (c-section, vacuum, pitocin, etc.). If you live in Minneapolis, you can get updates from Ten Moons Rising on when he'll be in town next.

Bye.