Garden

Right when we should have been thinning out our turnips and tending to the garden, we were busy having a baby. So we didn't do anything to help out the cabbage, carrots, chard, and turnips that we planted. If they were to survive they would have to do it on their own. The only water they got came from rain, and we pretty much turned a blind eye for a good 2 and half months. The turnips didn't fare too well, but our carrots are delicious. Very sweet. Except one that I picked seemed to have grown into a piece of trash that must have been already in the dirt. One of the joys of urban gardening.

1st Thanksgiving

It's Louis's first Thanksgiving and Andy pointed out that every day must be like Thanksgiving when you eat all day and then fall asleep and go to the bathroom in your pants.

Bedtime with Louis

I have read that a baby is sleeping through the night when they can go 5-6 hours at a time. Who the heck thinks this is sleeping through the night? Why settle? If they can do 6, why not 8? It's the same principle with the union folks who brought us the weekend. (We've all seen that bumper sticker, right?) Well I have to ask, why did they stop with the 5 day work week? I'm not complaining or anything. I don't have any desire to work in a mine all day every day. But why stop there? What about a 4 day work week? Anyways, I have gone off-topic. Louis has established his bedtime around 8 pm, give or take about a half an hour. And he is the sweetest little guy you could hope for because once you put him in the dark in his bouncy seat he just hangs out and looks at you for awhile, makes a few peeps, and then seems genuinely relieved to be going to sleep. It doesn't take him long and he doesn't put up a fuss (for some reason naps are another story). Then he will sleep until about 3 or 4 am, at which point he has either soiled his diaper enough to be really uncomfortable, or he will be sucking on his hands so loudly that you might think we hadn't fed him for days. So Andy will get him up and change him, and then I will feed him and when I put him back down, he is so content I like to imagine he is saying "thanks guys, you are such swell parents! i love you." Sometimes he even smiles. It's almost enough to keep me up with him that early in the morning. Almost.