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At least I can add Tylenol and Baby Oragel to his list of likes for any future pleas…

Likes:

Electrical sockets, cords of any kind, running his fingers along greased sliding glass door tracks (and licking said finger when finished), crawling through or over anything that might cause bodily harm, splashing bathwater with such force that it floods the bathroom, eating toilet paper, ripping magazines, laptops, dishwashers (inside only), refrigerators (also inside), scratching, and biting.

Dislikes:

Lotion, having his diaper changed (unless he’s allowed to stick his hand in poo), putting on pajamas, the hours between 3:30 and 7, napping past 2pm, sleeping past 6am, highchairs, children’s toys, haircuts, riding in the carseat, and having his fingernails clipped.

Please send CVs to shannon@losinghermind.com.

Serious inquiries only.

Today, after two months of furiously gnawing on everything and drooling incessantly, one of Liam’s top front teeth has finally broken through!

I’ll post a picture when it’s big enough to really see when he smiles.

Today Liam made the leap from merely pulling up to cruising along the side of the couch.  As usual, he made the leap while trying to pull keys off the laptop, which was sitting on the couch.  His development of this particular skill has been interesting because unlike his propensity for danger in other areas (see: tongue in light socket) he’s fairly cautious about things in the vertical arena.  He only stands (and now walks while standing) if he wants something and he very carefully sits himself down when he’s finished exploring.  The only place that he pulls up for the sake of pulling up is on the bars of his crib.  My guess is that the reason for this is that he’s learned that his mattress is fairly soft when compared with the floor and he doesn’t mind falling as much when he’s doing it in his bed.  At any rate, he’s definitely progressing towards walking fairly quickly.  I’m comforting myself with the notion that he’s being careful in his quest.

Hi, it’s me again.  I just thought I’d let you know (once more) how much I appreciate your ability to schedule deliveries.  Today was even better than last time because this time my husband called to “schedule” an appointment in advance and was told that our delivery would be made between 10:30am and 1pm.  So although you already know that I don’t have anything else to do besides wait for you to arrive, I appreciate you looking after my well-being and giving me the go-ahead to enjoy my free time before 10:30 and after 1.  I know you’re busy, so I’ll excuse the fact that you showed up at 4.  Also, it’s truly fantastic that you didn’t leave my shipment on my lawn and instead brought it all the way down the driveway before leaving it outside in opened boxes.  (I’m sure the man who stopped by after you made the delivery with his truck gate open asking about “thinning out our monkey grass” appreciates the placement of those boxes as well.  Score one for you–not only do you make customers happy, you make monkey-grass-thinning strangers happy, too!)  Also, I know that we’re friends because everyone knows that being friends means never having to say you’re sorry and you didn’t apologize when my husband called for the fifth time to see where the driver was.  It’s good to know that customer service is still alive and well!

Many thanks and much love,

Shannon

Matt and I have long had a policy that our furniture must also, whenever possible, do double duty as additional storage. You see, I have a lot of stuff, and an inability to throw things away and that means that storage is key. The flaw in this plan, it seems, is that those fantastic storage cubbies in our furniture can now only safely be used to store Liam’s toys or things that we don’t mind him eating or tearing apart…

There are certain members of my family who would no doubt respond that the solution is to just throw everything out. There are other certain members of my family (from whom I have inherited an obvious hoarding gene) who totally understand my lack of the ability to throw things away.

This certainly underscores my love of cabinet doors on everything and takes it (in my mind) from a seemingly frivolous preference to an absolute necessity. Now if we only had thousands of dollars just lying around with no other purpose but to provide for the purchase of furniture with doors…