Forgive me while I ramble.

Everyone in my house is sleeping right now.  Both cats are zonked out; they've turned themselves upside down with their paws in the air and their bodies are bent in odd ways, all cat-like and lazy.  Baby girl is asleep (I can see that cute butt sticking up in the air from where I sit) in her crib  - and we're going on 1.5 hours now, so I better make this quick - and here I sit in the quiet.  It's nice.  I usually keep the radio on or at least the doors and windows open so the daily hum and chatter of the city can filter in, but today I decided not to.  I realized that - besides sleeping - I am rarely surrounded by complete silence.

That's odd, isn't it?  Life can be so noisy, and we don't even realize it.

I'm not used to being awake in the silence.  I'm so unaccustomed to it that it stood out to me today, and I felt the need to share.  I'm kind of enjoying it right now, mostly because I know it will be shorted lived, and soon my girl's beautiful voice will fill the silence with her happy coos.

Speaking of coos.....

Have a great weekend everyone!

"So for God's sake..."

It's World Breastfeeding Week!  In honor of this week devoted to promoting and supporting breastfeeding, I wanted to share an interesting article I read today about yet another benefit of breastfeeding that is being studied at UC Davis - this time it's a protective bacteria that coats the infant's intestines (As one researcher said: "Mothers are recruiting another life-form to baby-sit their baby"! Researcher-humor is always HILARIOUS, OF COURSE.)


I think my favorite quote was the very last line: "So for God’s sake, please breast-feed".  Ha!  Love it.


Go here to read it!

It's Official!

At 8.5 months old, my baby girl is crawling!  She officially took more than two "crawls" on Friday evening (7/30/10), so I had to call it.  We were at the lake and she crawled across the kitchen to me - it was so sweet!  Oh, I almost cried.  This video is from this afternoon.  As you can see, she is still slow and her hips tend to swivel a bit, but she has definitely mastered the movements.  I'm sure by the end of the week she will be fast as lightning!

We went out today and bought a baby gate to put up in the kitchen in front of the back door and the entrance to the basement stairs.  This is the beginning of the craziness, I can tell!