Rozey Thorn Trees

Me: Thalia, I think we'll skip bath this morning. Thalia: (projectile vomits) (Opinion duly noted. Nice timing, kiddo. This one is going to be a comedian.) --LR

Impressions of baby sister at 2 months: Me: What do you think about your baby sister? 4yr: She's great and she's cute. She looks like a chubby hamster, and she looks like a wood chip, too. Me: She looks like a wood chip? 4yr: Yep.  Me: Why does she look like a wood chip? 4yr: Because she's cute like a wood chip. Me: A wood chip? Huh. Oh, like a chipmunk. 4yr: Yeah. --LR

"If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?"  —Lawrence Peters,  Peter's Quotations Mark Twain's Cluttered Desk Albert Einstein's Cluttered Desk Steve Job's Cluttered Desk

"It is, no doubt, a great advantage to talk to a man at the Antipodes through a telephone; its advantage depends entirely on the value of what the two men have to say to one another. If one merely shrieks slander through a tube and the other whispers folly into a wire, do not think that anybody is very much benefited by the invention." —Oscar Wilde, from "Art and the Handicraftsman"

So the newborn has stayed up through her first two nights out of the womb and has cluster-fed (yawn) to expedite the arrival of milk. . . . Milk is here in abundance! Good job, baby! Unfortunately, she cannot be woken...Good thing she's cute : ) Back into the shower and a couple of old episodes of Friends while I pump... --LR

Thalia Faith was born today at 7:29 a.m., 8 lbs, 3 oz., and is healthy, hungry, & feisty! : )