Mutant Message Down Under – Marlo Morgan
Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy *
Hard Times – Charles Dickens *
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
Nymphs of the Valley – Kahil Gibran
The Persian Expedition – Xenophon
The Kingdom of Ohio – Matthew Flaming
The Godmakers – Frank Herbert
The Mabinogion
The 39 Steps – John Buchan *
The Stranger – Albert Camus *
this baby is ill. she’s got a stuffy nose, and since she hasn’t yet learned how to blow her nose, she’s stuck. fortunately for her she also has the sneezes so periodically her face explodes into yellow snot. during her nap today she blew big snot bubbles out her nose that popped on my shirt. gross. she’s also very needy, and her preferred situation today was being held by her mom, talking to me over steph’s shoulder. I got bored holding her while steph and aaron were voting so I played wii while holding her and it was difficult, though she was quite interested in the tennis. both my arms were tired after that one.
this baby has turned into an only-wanting-mom baby. unless her dad is home and then he’s ok. or if we’re out somewhere without her mom, then I’ll do. but seriously, the whole day long we are here in this house and steph is here in this house, this baby is no fun. she’ll play with me for about half an hour maybe and then she’ll see steph out of the corner of her eye, or hear her talking on the phone, and it’s all over. crying and fussing and telling her mom that I am supermean nanny. it also happens if I take paper or fuzz out of her mouth, refuse to let her crawl over to the fireplace and bust her head open on the brick, attempt to feed her anything, don’t let her rip books apart, put her down for a nap etc. crying for mom like I am a villain, the result. sometimes I can distract her with book reading and sinatra dancing and piano playing and underarm tickling and playing dead on the floor, but lately it’s been bad. seriously I only get an half an hour of pure fun before it is like pulling teeth to get her to not yell for mom (sometimes when it’s close to time for him to come home she yells for her dad too, do babies have a sense of time? is it random? is she so desperate to see not me she’s yelling for everyone she knows?).
I feel this baby may have misjudged me, her mistake. I too am way stubborn and bossy and grumpy when I don’t enough sleep. however, I have a big sister already and I’m not in the market for another one so sorry, this baby. the boss of me position has been filled and you are just going to have to deal with me telling you to not eat screws and not pull tables on your head and to go to sleep when you are tired and I decide it is naptime. you’ll have to wait until you get your own little sister. or brother. or dog.
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