This weekend all Leif did was strip down his bed and empty five plastic baggies of rose seeds on it.

Being very literal about the concept of a flower bed was he?

Leif also locked me out of the house. I forgot about that one. Oh, and I forgot about emptying a pound of chocolate chips in his sister's room.

THEN AT LEAST SPELL MY DAUGHTER'S NAME RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!

Hey, I was supportive, even if I did have three Ls in Annabel at one point. Is that the right number of Ns? The right way is not on-screen at the moment.

Are there any energy workers/healers or recipients of energy work people about? I have some questions and would like advice/opinions.

I have received, but there may be a delay in asnwering, or you can email me at my profile addy if you'd like to take it off-board. Whatever's best for you.

And Susan, Annabel is just as beautiful as ever. And so tall. Em still look positively newborn in her Pack n Play.

Whoa.

No shit. We'll get our pre-approval letter this week. I'm feeling all kinds of grown up right now. Dude, when did that happen?

Susan and dw have made a beautiful young lady. Gorgeous eyes and a wonderful smile.

Was Leif tired?

When i think of fat babies , I think of my sister- who was a baby buddha. - but ended up looking like my mom's side of the family - thin heading towards the skinny side. It is one of those baby myteries.

But still! Mobility, kid! You know you want it!

Heh. Considering that her mother is well content to spend an entire weekend in bed (as long as she has a laptop or stack of books), I'm not sure why you think the disinterest in mobility is unusual.

I'm very convinced that baby mobility is driven entirely by baby's desire to move (with rare exceptions). Some babies can contemplate the entire universe while sitting still, and that's sufficient.

When Emmett was little I was anxious about his potty training and whether he'd ever sleep through the night. Those aren't issues anymore.

Currently he's in a sort of no-worry zone, but I don't take that for granted and consciously remind myself of that fact.

Most of my worrying about Emmett was definitely about how the divorce would affect him.

Susan, she's almost 3' tall?! Dear God, where does the time go?

Something that just occured to me: I talked super-super-early (8 months) and walked super-super-late (16 months). As far as I know, my mother never took me to a physical therapist or anything like that to figure out why I couldn't walk.

And I wonder, if Annabel were doing things in that order, if you'd be worried. If she'd been talking in two-word sentences two months ago but not moving around without your help, would you worry that she was developmentally delayed somehow? Would you think she had juvenile myasthenia gravis or some other pathology that was weakening her muscles?

I ask this because I know how important words are to you, and how much you value speech; Annabel's development in that area seems slow to you because it's the thing you find most important. If she were doing the things you long for her to do so much, but not doing others, I'm willing to bet that you'd be far less worried about it.

I'm not trying to talk you out of anything (though I do think the speech therapist consult will end up being unncessary). It's just a thought, and if it's a perspective you hadn't considered before, I hope it's a helpful thought.

How does Joe feel about Wills?

He accepts it that he'll get a dukedom out of the deal.