Our life

My how time flies.  Why, just yesterday, it seemed like it was 戊子¹, but I digress.

As dd grows, we’re finding that she’s not the only one who’s learning here.  Now granted, she has learned far more than we have over these past few months, such as:

• How to eat solid foods like mashed potatoes, green beans, peas, apples, bananas, strawberries.
• How to drink from a sippy cup (still a work in progress).
• How to cross the living room floor via rolling and inching.  She’s almost ready to crawl.
• How to giggle on command.
• How to properly get and maintain mommy and daddy’s attention.
• How to hack into an unpatched XP machine.

But in the same, mommy and daddy are right there with her, learning that:

• There are truly not enough hours in the day.
• dd sleeps very well for her age, but that doesn’t mean we’re not deprived. (UPDATE – Teething pain began in full force)
• That bright green, blue, and red go really well with our decor of mostly earth tones. 
• The terminal velocity for a falling toy, how often it needs to be returned to the dropping hand, and how many foreign objects can get stuck on said toy in that short trip.
• What foods do what to her poop (still in progress).

I’m learning how to not be surprised by noises that come from within bags, boxes, and other carrying apparatuses.  It didn’t throw me off one bit Friday night when I grabbed the reusable Target bag and it sang “C is for Cookie” on the way out to the car. 

Mommy is learning how to make her own baby food.  Saturday night, we were up late boiling, peeling, mashing and packaging Bananas, Peas, Carrots and Peaches². She has also made 2 sets of just awesome cookies.  Her latest batch, the macadamia nut cookies, just get better with each cookie. In fact, the last one I had Saturday was the best yet. And to think, LOD could’ve had that one. 

Lastly, we’re both learning patience well beyond what we thought was possible. But I have to say the biggest thing we’ve learned is truly how cool it is to be a parent.  Its just awesome. 

1. thank you, wiki – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Astrology#Table_of_the_sixty_year_calendar [↩]
2. Save those baby food containers (we used Gerber).  We filled at least 40 that night [↩]