I do wish, however, there was some way I could explain to them how much their lives are about to change.

They figure it out right quick. And being dogs, still love you to pieces. Plus, when they figure that toddler=lots of dropped food, they're in hog heaven.

vw, I'm so glad you're feeling so much better.

Poor Perkins getting robbed of three hours sleep. That's just not fair.

Cashmere and Stephanie, it sounds like introducing a baby into a dog's house is similar to introducing a baby into a toddler's house.

Christopher has conjuntivitis. We have a doctor's appointment at 11. Usually, our pediatrician's office simply phones in a prescription without an office visit. We were there for a flu shot about six months ago, and prior to that, we were there for his annual physical exam, last summer.

As near as I can figure, they want to see him today, because he hasn't otherwise been sick enough to have an appointment. Oh well. I was always surprised they didn't want to see us before prescribing the antibiotic eye drops anyhow, so I don't mind. It just seems like a funny shift in their S.O.P.

I could tell by looking at him last night that he was going to get conjunctivitis. He's had a cold and/or allergies, and although the eyes were not yet gucky, I knew it was coming.

Chris Very Much Does Not Want to Go to the Doctor's Office, because the last two times he was there, he got shots both times. So far, I have not convinced him that there will be no shot this time. Fun. Fun. Fun. I've enlisted my mother to come with.

{{{Christopher}}}

Could someone please remind my mother that I am 27. She is driving me batty.

TICKYBOX!!!!! Plei, she is so beautiful!

Or that it is possible for David to be upstaged by a puppet.

I'm amused and intrigued and yet no one will explain....

Poor Christopher! Hopefully it's a nice quick appointment, Cindy.

"sj's mother, sj is 27. Please quit driving her batty!"

Poor pink-eyed Christopher. I hope his doctor's appt. isn't traumatic. Can't really blame him for his reticence, though.

I'm supposed to poke Emily this morning and wake her up. Unfortunately, I was so asleep when she told me this that I forget what *time* I am/was supposed to wake her up. I hope she didn't need to be anywhere early this morning.

Thanks, vw. I know a lot of it is my own fault. She helps me out with certain things that I find difficult to get done, and I haven't proven myself to be very responsible the past few years. But, she is still trying to run my whole damn life and give me "chores" for my apartment that I live in alone like I am a little kid. I don't know how to break out of this pattern, and I shouldn't be crying about this like I am a little kid. I'm only proving her right about me when I do this.

Lily is just so beautiful.

I think that one of her in the pink hat with her teeny tiny hand by her cheek is my most favoritest right now.

Karl's ogling is very subtle, if slightly indiscriminate(nobody's ever ogled me in my life, I mean, so...I'm sure Kristin is ogle-worthy.) Can't face my e-mail yet...full to the brim with politics and Urgent! things I must do, right now!(And they're not fucking great.) "Every single night/ the same arrangement. I(stay in) and fight the fight/ Still I always feel this strange estrangement./ Nothing here is real. Nothing here is right." So, um, timelies.