It’s been too long since I posted and I feel slightly guilty about that. During the last hiatus at least the site was undergoing a revamp, but I can’t use that as an excuse this time. In any case, it’s just hard to feel inspired these days. Or more precisely, the opportunities where inspiration and time converge are few and far between. I’m reassured, when I read old journal entries, that the paucity of my current output has more to do with lack of time than lack of thoughts or insights to share. Those still come fast and furious, and Diane gets the bulk of them whether she likes it or not (I trust she does).<\/p>\n
Penelope has found her first word, or the first sound she’s made that resembles one, and I’m quite pleased with it. When the mood strikes her, indiscriminately (as far as we can tell), she will say “Da-da… A-DAda…” She probably doesn’t mean anything by it except exercising her nascent speech skills, but hey, I’ll take it for all it’s worth. She is beautiful and round and BIG. It will be a sad day when she completely outgrows her Baby Bjorn. She’s almost there, and it’s her favorite place to be, really. No crawling yet, but she certainly knows how to roll over and reach for things. Her preferred means of investigating is to point. If something comes within arm’s reach that she has to figure out, she will curl her little fingers up, extend her index, and feel it with only that one finger. Sometimes, especially with Granddad’s mustache, she will use both hands and do a double-barrel point.<\/p>\n
Luke is speaking in nearly full sentences now. He seems to have mastered, for the most part, the you-I distinction, and now calls Mommy and Daddy by name, which is wonderful. His favorite thing right is Google Earth and zooming from place to place and in and out with Daddy. He loves to visit the Space Needle in Seattle, Crater Lake, the Burj Dubai and Ayers Rock. We try to limit his time, not wanting viewing anything with a screen to become too much of a habit, but it’s fun when we do get on there.<\/p>\n
Also, we’ve adopted a kitten. She is, as of this writing, twelve weeks old, pure white, and her name is Brie (like the cheese, the horse in the Narnia book, or the town in LOTR, though those last two are spelled differently). She is, bar none, simultaneously the sweetest and most playful cat I’ve ever seen. She loves people, and cozying up to people, and she also loves tearing around the house, attacking the furniture and anything that moves (and doesn’t move) and terrorizing Luke even though he’s an order of magnitude larger than she. He’s finally getting used to it, but having her jump out from behind the couch at him, paws flailing (claws always retracted) was distressing him for a while. Poor kid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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