iPods are the answer to street hustler intrusion. Sure, I can hear you, but you don't know that. I have immunity!

Hey, how is your wee-est addition?

She's full of amusement value! She makes many faces as if she were trying to win at Pictionary in an Eastern Bloc country. She waves her hands in the air like she just don't care. There's squirming and grunting. She finds the fairy lights in the hallway to be endlessly fascinating and they fill her with wonder. About one hour a day she has her eyes open and she's not complaining about anything in particular and then she achieves maximum cuteness. She's floppy, particularly when her gullet is full of milk. But her neck and back muscles are firming up.

Though she is mostly nestled properly in the arms she is still small enough that you can hold her with two hands - one for the the head, one for the body. She's fattening up. Getting the little dimples on the back of her finger joints. Her eyes have turned brown and her hairline is filling in. She looks totaly different with a hat on.

Now I want a cupcake. Thanks a LOT, Burrell. And I just realized how I can justify "happening" to go by the good cupcake place... NO. Will not have cupcakes. Have been entirely too indulgent this week.

Now I want a newborn. Thanks a LOT, Hec. And I just realized how I can justify "happening" to do what it takes to get one... NO. Will not have more babies. Have been entirely too indulgent this lifetime.

Have been entirely too indulgent this week.

I bet you look especially hot when you're eating a cupcake.

Will someone please talk me out of bidding on this table? It's the style I've been wistfully looking for since Home Decorators Collection stopped carrying it two years ago (though the tabletop is rose marble rather than the dark green that would go great in my living room). However, I REALLY don't need to be spending money on non-essential items, particularly this soon before Christmas.

Have been entirely too indulgent this lifetime.

I bet you look especially hot when you're snuzzling a newborn.

Have you tried standing upright?

Yes. But I think the only way that'll work is I'm an upright man introducing the overly-aggressive college boys to my truncheon.

Will someone please talk me out of bidding on this table? It's the style I've been wistfully looking for since Home Decorators Collection stopped carrying it two years ago (though the tabletop is rose marble rather than the dark green that would go great in my living room). However, I REALLY don't need to be spending money on non-essential items, particularly this soon before Christmas.

hold out for the green.

introducing the overly-aggressive college boys to my truncheon.

Shrift with a truncheon - it's good for America.