Recent Miscellanies

More something about allergies and breastfeeding till 12 months or later … and then there’s a study “about babies being happier when their mothers ate chocolate during pregnancy.”

DSC_0084-small.jpgBaby has learned how to climb out of her Bumbo. *sigh* Now there isn’t a single safe secure place I can leave her … besides the crib, and she hates it. She starts crying just getting near it. I’m happy to hold her most of the time. Just not when I need to shower and wash my hair, y’know. (I’m still really glad I got a pink Bumbo and not one of the unisex colours.) She hates the stroller, too, so whenever we go out, she’s in a wrap. But you know what? I like holding her, even though I get really tired. I think I like that more than anything else in the world.

She is writhing more energetically every day. It’s not quite crawling yet, but it’s getting there. I think she’s right-handed. She usually reaches for things with her right hand. There are a lot of left-handed people in my family on both sides so I was wondering which she would be.

Her teething has been a pain for all of us. I don’t know what I would do without the teething tablets one of my friends told me about. I got them at the local health food store. They work miracles.

Ben found a beautiful illuminated Bible at TJ Maxx for $16.99. There were 2 copies so we bought them both. They have it at Amazon but there’s no picture or anything. I looked for it online and couldn’t find any information about it anywhere. Mystery Bible … but it’s pretty (King James Version, heirloom-quality archival paper, over 875 full-color illuminations taken from masterpieces of Renaissance bookmaking, genuine leather binding, gold gilding on edges, magnetic side closure, gold foil stamping on cover, gold ribbon marker).

4-million-dollar-home.jpgI’ve been winning the lottery almost every day, even with the amazingly good Gmail spam filters. Man, what I could do with all that money.

And speaking of money, I got a brand new cute Crumpler camera bag for less than half price at Circuit City yesterday. It fits my new camera perfectly. I like Crumpler bags so much. They make a necklace, too.

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