Homework

I'm on Spring Break, so somebody is getting got a present.

bunny rabbits say "hop, hop"

Sunday afternoons are exciting times

The real pool opens on Saturday

This is a better solution for the under-4-feet-tall crowd than for the rest of us. Or maybe I just need some bigger buckets.

Fletcher explains a limited number of things

mostly having to do with letters of the alphabet:

Snow Day #5,287

snow from especiallymessily on Vimeo.

bounce, bounce, woof

The dog would really like to play with a cat or kitten, but hasn't had any takers so far.

holy ridiculous, Small.

naptime.



Also, she purr-snores.

I mean, I'm proud of Elizabeth, too...

This kid kind of blows my mind. As usual.

School's going good. I might actually get a degree at some time in the not terribly distant future. A student told me my class was "one of the hardest I've ever taken" which my roommate thinks I should take as a compliment but I'm not quite as sure about. DC got taken over by rabid wingnuts this weekend, but since I never leave my house it didn't really affect me. Maryrose is back in town for a visit, and the air is cool enough at night that I am contemplating the addition of another down comforter. So all in all things are pretty okay.

Halfabet

update: now with captions! Thanks secret internet listener!

alphabet. ballet dancing. sort of.

She's 2 now. Watch out.

via

tickle tickle

You probably haven't been doing enough of this lately.

Olive wins

You might think your baby is cute, and, all right, fair enough, it probably is. But does your baby have a heart-shaped birthmark on its cheek?



Well, Sarah and Brian's baby does.

are you tired of adorable babies yet?

I linked to this before in a comment, but now Lindsay captioned it for me. The best part is at 3:00 where the baby fakes utter dejection, on behalf of David.



Thanks Lindsay!

p. s. if anyone knows lots of stuff about captioning/subtitles, formatting, and .srt files, please email me.

we've been working on this trick for a while

it's still kind of hit or miss, but excellent when successful.

everybody's got a little devil

mine are in a bucket in my hallway.



"Everybody's Got a Little Devil In Their Soul": Tommie Young

easily amused

which is funnier: a bowl of water or a fauxhawk on a baby?



answer: totally a tie.

This was way the most productive hour I've spent in MONTHS.

she was right; eating IS pretty exciting

Ben's out of town and it was the 4-year-old's first day of big girl school, so I went to pick the baby up from day care. We walked back to my house and sat around watching the news while we waited for Elizabeth to come get her. Also we ate some food.

Oh my goodness, this child LOVES FOOD. I have never seen someone so enthusiastic about mealtime. We had this conversation for 40 minutes:

Cecily: you want a bagel?
Baby: (running into the kitchen and laughing) YAAAAAAAAAAAAY!
Cecily: want some sausage?
Baby: (maniacal laughter) (signing "more") MORE! YAAAAY! MORE!
Cecily: you thirsty? want a drink?
Baby: (nodding, giggling, blowing kisses) MMMMMMMM!!!!! YAAAY!

Finally she reclined on the pillows, patted her fat 18-month-old tummy, and signed "all done". If she had fallen asleep like that I would have cried from perfection, but instead she lasted 20 seconds and then jumped up to throw more things at the cats and try to wear my cowboy boots.

Kisses!

My friends Tom and Lindsay and Eli have a lovebird. It is a Peach Faced Lovebird. Its name is Peaches (probably because of how it is peach faced. I'm just guessing).

Anyway it likes me and while I am trying to do important things like drink wine and play Bridge it keeps interrupting me to bite my ears and give me creepy little lovebird kisses.

mean!

Lindsay keeps looking at me sternly and telling me I am not allowed to bring any orphaned children home with me. She claims that it is illegal, and that the IRB would frown upon me. She always uses a very no nonsense tone of face so I will pay attention.



Come ON Lindsay. It's not like I would take ALL of them. Just a couple of the very small ones!