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Still a bit drugged. Here are some gratuitous baby pics in lieu of a real post. Back soon with lucid thoughts. What does a baby have to do to get his arms released?! Just sweetness.

What? I didn’t mention that? Oh. Yes, I got to go BACK to the hospital a few days ago. Again. For the third time. In a week and a half. After writhing in pain for the gazillionth time, it finally became apparent that (a) this wasn’t part of a normal abdominal surgery recovery process and, [...]

So, LittleMan has a penis. The Swimmy does not. This has now been noticed. In the past two days I’ve had the “penis-vagina” discussion three times. I hadn’t considered this issue before LittleMan’s arrival. I guess I just assumed because the Swimmy had been in school, she’d seen her other boy classmates “equipment” while dealing [...]

Andrea Yates found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Woo hoo! And more exclamation points! I’ve actually stayed out of the hospital for 3 whole consecutive days. This rocks. But you know what rocks harder? A sleeping baby. But that didn’t come easily, my gentle snowflakes. Why? you ask? Well, at first he was sleeping four (!!) hours at a time during the day. [...]

…because last night I got to go BACK to the hospital. Yes, that’s right! I enjoyed my stay at Casa Medical so much that somewhere around 12:30am, it was time to go back. A day and a half after I finally got home. I had been having a strange pain up under my lower ribcage [...]

Hi, Webosphere! Sorry I’ve been MIA lately. I, uh, had a baby. A little early. And was kept hostage in a hospital. And being on pain meds while blogging could have been cool, but I was too stoned to know it. I will tell you my not so interesting birth story another time because it [...]

1. Put stroller together. 2. Still be unprepared at home. 3. Have really awesome lunch plans at fabulous restaurant. 4. Have important business meetings and make sure your Husband does too. Yep. He’s here! Pics and story to follow, but he’s 6lbs, 7oz and 19.5 inches long. And, yes, he already grounded. ps. blogging while [...]

1. Devise 37 different ways to punch your OB Gyn in the face for not agreeing to GET ON WITH THIS ALREADY. 2. Freak straight out about whether or not the clothes you have already washed and put away for the baby will even fit the gigantic kid punching the shit out of your diaphragm [...]

This is not an exciting post. But you should never waste the pretty. Especially when it’s been 9 months since the pretty has existed.