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.”

Baby 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).

I’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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