I think she made her first sign today.

w00t!

Why oh why is it that a baby who can defeat zombies cannot seem to take a nap?

Poor thing! Probably thinks she needs to stay up and protect you. Little does she know that without a nap, she is in danger of becoming something of a zombie herself (against which you need some protection).

Five too early for a drink?

I say the sun is always over the yardarm somewhere.

Nora, what I use to get through those hellish conclusions is to begin a sentence "Thus it can be seen that ...." That somehow gets me into the summary mode, even if I later write out the pretentious phrase. It is possible that this is only helpful to me.

I hope the surgery is uneventful and successful, Jilli. I've been under general anesthesia twice in the last few years and I had zero trouble with the anesthesia part. I did discover that it helps to tell the anesthesiologist every odd reaction to drugs you've ever had. Also, after my last surgery, which was pretty long, I would have tortured a puppy for a bottle of water on the way home. My mouth has never been so dry.

My parents used to put me to sleep by going for a drive. The vibrations + noise of the engine were apparently very soothing to me.

That worked on my firstborn, too. Put 'er in the baby bucket, drive around the block, and she was out.

Then you had the fun task of getting the baby bucket back into the house without waking her.

Sympathies, Plei. I think all of us have been there.

Yeah, car thing worked with/for me too. Getting the seats out with the boogers still asleep is the biggest trick.

I say the sun is always over the yardarm somewhere.

I'm 400 words into a 1800 word paper and the brain is ded.

Blarg.

Is the vaccuum cleaner thing like the car thing? Sound and vibration? Maybe you could try that and skip the transferring of the sprog?

Or, if you have it in-house, clothes dryer, perhaps

Do not put the baby IN the dryer.

Especially not if you're going to turn it on.

Mmm, warm fluffy baby...