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.

There was also the birthday party that we all went to. When the lights went off all of a sudden the first thing my wife said was "Where's Leif?". Sure enough, the blackout was Leif caused.

so it wasn't that Leif was calm this weekend - he's just giving you amnesia on top of everything else.

Yeah, pretty much.

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.

She wants to move, just not while on her belly. She'll probably skip to the walking part, with my luck.

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.

True. I'm really teaching her to be slothful and catlike.

I also worry because Lillian has no interest in solids.

Not to worry. Even Franny ate solids eventually. Actually, she didn't develop much of an appetite for foods until she weaned onto milk at about a year. Her caregiver at daycare said that's common.

Annabel doesn't look thin to me, she looks like a toddler. She's grown legs.

You know if you guys are having trouble getting people to spell Annabel and Emeline correctly my friend is going to have some difficulties if she does decide to name her girl baby Rhiannon like she said she was going to after I karaoked it on Saturday.

All my life people have misspelled my name, but since I use a variant spelling it never surprised me. However many people manage to misspell Frances. Whatever. I can't be held accountable for their inability to spell.

Annabel is just as beautiful as ever.

Actually I think she's a little more beautiful.