I do have to say that I had a very very Monday with tons of crazy callers all of whom would top any kind of crazy caller MiracleMan gets. I know you get a lot, but I got to hear from the guy who was sure the VA was out to get him by hiring unlicensed people to do medical work, forged all consent forms and documents, and then had him arrested when he showed up for a meeting with some hospital bigwig.

Wow, okay. You win.

Today.

"A mole is a number, have you heard, it's six times ten to the *beat* twenty-third. THat's SIX with twenty four zeros on the end, much too big a number to even comprehend."

I obviously needed more songs in my math.

My sister's undergrad college cheer (for basketball, the one team they could field) went something like: Secant, Tangent, Cosine, Sine Three-point-one-four-one-five-nine... I don't think it's a stretch that a number of tiny engineering schools probably have the same sort of thing. Not all of those engineering schools can boast their losing streak though... Including 10 years running to Cooper Union.

Which goes to show that math and spelling can split right down the gene pool. As much as hair and eye color.

Av-o-ca-do was my third word. I like them lots, and apparently my brain developed just fine without dairy.

Avocados are a fantastic source of fatty acids for healthy brain development. D loves them too.

so, tonight is the sleep training? Good luck to Jessica, E and D.

Ellie is a good sleeper but she still sleeps with us and has no desire to leave. Lik JZ, I tell myself she will sleep on her own by college. In the mean time, she is cuddly.

The thing I have noticed the most about Ellie and eating is that I really have to set the example- and that can be such a bummer although it has definitely improved what I eat.

Yes, right now in fact. I can't go back in for another 2 minutes. It is torture.

Poor Jess! Stay strong! (There is just something about your baby crying that goes right into the base of my brain.)

MM I hope you had a day of light callers because I got so many and so crazy. I told a co worker "it feels like the universe is prank calling me."

Well, that wasn't so bad - he fell asleep after about 45 minutes (around 8:30), which is only about 10 minutes later than he's been falling asleep the last few days anyway. Of course, 2 am will be worse, but I think we'll get through this.

I got so many and so crazy.

Yay full moon.

Stay strong Jess and Fone!

I really wish I hadn't been so hard-core (relatively speaking, I mean, I still ran SCREAMING from Mothering.com) AP when Lillian was younger. Not that I expect sleep training would have worked, but maybe it would have trained US to be able to sleep through her waking up and fussing about.

Of course, she didn't start being a terror about sleep until 7 months. And then I went back to work at a day shy of 8 months, so I had mother guilt and she was reverse cycling and blah blah blah.

It's funny, I still have the reflexive twitch about sleep training, but DAMN, I wish we'd tried it out.

(Of course, Certain Other People in the house wouldn't agree with that. Other than Lillian. Certain Other People are NOT in tune with the notion of Good Enough.)