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Remember how I said Austen's first food was paper? It's also been his second, third, fourth, and so on: If he's in the Bjorn when I'm opening the mail, he'll grab it and stuff it into his mouth with stunning quickness and force. (It reminds me a bit of a shark attack: one minute he's eyeing a solicitation from Capital One calmly, the next minute he's ripped it out of my hand and shoved it down his maw.) He regularly gnaws on paper towels, and he's made a meal of several napkins (to the amusement of both us and a waiter at Hamburger Mary's, and to the horror of my mother-in-law).

austen, snarfing down a napkin

The other morning when Austen awoke at 5:30 or so, I discovered that his sleeper suit was wet (yes, he'd had a bath the night before, and as usual, his diaper leaked; he's definitely not drinking the bath water, and we put a larger size diaper on him, so we're still going with the penis-in-the-wrong-position theory). I was too tired to re-dress him, so I stripped off the suit and onesie and tossed him into our bed semi-naked. I don't think I've seen him asleep half-naked since he was in the hospital, so I snapped a photo.

austen, unclothed

On Saturday we joined in a neighborhood sidewalk sale and managed to get rid of about half of the extra stuff that doesn't really fit into our lives/house anymore. Al snapped this photo about an hour in, I think:

austen and I try to attract customers

During the sale we also managed to snap photos of each other with the same enthusiastic smiles on our faces:

me at the sale
al at the sale

On Sunday morning we drove down to Virginia to visit Al's parents, and we spent the night so I could get to an appointment nearby more easily on Monday. We had some extra time before the appointment, so we stopped at a local mall and got me a new pair of glasses (I tried contacts for all of two days last week, but I found that I could neither tolerate them for more than two hours, nor see well enough to work, so I'll be returning them to the eye doctor tomorrow).

my new glasses

Upon our return on Monday evening we discovered that the rhododendron in our front garden had bloomed for the first time since we moved in 18 months ago. (Yay! It likes us! It really, really likes us!)

the rhododendron in all its glory

In honor of the occasion, I dyed my hair to match.

rhododendron hair

Posted by Lori in around the house and parenthood at 10:46 PM on May 24, 2005

Comments (4)

I love the hair and the glasses.

Josie [TypeKey Profile Page]:

You are too cool with your rhododendron hair! I just LOVE your free spirit!! And, aren't half-naked babies just adorable?!? Hope that doesn't sound to inappropriate...

pld:

Ha, Spongebob looked comfortable in that chair.
I can't believe how close your hair really matches the flower - nicely done!

What a great post! So much going on.

Alexander likes to gnaw on paper, too. So far, I don't think he's actually swallowed any, though he nearly choked on a straw wrapper no one noticed he'd swiped. Well, there was no choking, but he'd gummed the thing flat, at which point it adhered to the roof of his mouth, where I spotted it and got it out.

I envy you your decluttering! Must get right on that. Yeah.

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I love the hair and the glasses.

Posted by: Stephen at May 25, 2005 11:24 AM

You are too cool with your rhododendron hair! I just LOVE your free spirit!! And, aren't half-naked babies just adorable?!? Hope that doesn't sound to inappropriate...

Posted by: Josie [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 25, 2005 4:10 PM

Ha, Spongebob looked comfortable in that chair.
I can't believe how close your hair really matches the flower - nicely done!

Posted by: pld at May 26, 2005 1:23 AM

What a great post! So much going on.

Alexander likes to gnaw on paper, too. So far, I don't think he's actually swallowed any, though he nearly choked on a straw wrapper no one noticed he'd swiped. Well, there was no choking, but he'd gummed the thing flat, at which point it adhered to the roof of his mouth, where I spotted it and got it out.

I envy you your decluttering! Must get right on that. Yeah.

Posted by: ratphooey [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 30, 2005 3:37 AM

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