Midget Monkey
With age comes experience, and this two month old monkey has some new powers to counteract our tricks of getting her to sleep:
- Monkey power of cheerio mouth-- combats vacuum
- Monkey power of sticking tongue out repeatedly-- combats swing
- Monkey power of extreme bicep strength-- combats swaddling
I was talking to my hairdresser yesterday  who is pregnant with twins and remembering all the fears of pregnancy. How funny it is now that these fears are multiplied once the baby is born, and increasingly insane. It started with worrying about SIDS every time Elena was asleep. Now I have irrational fears such as worrying that I will accidentally throw her over the balcony (thanks to Ammon for this one) and that she is a midget (little people start off as regular sized babies, right?? Strangers, in addition to saying how beautiful and/or adorable she is, keep telling me she is tiny for her age).
Ammon is back at work this week and I have been his chauffer, so it's been a pretty exciting week for Elena. We have today off because Miriam is visiting from Ohio and drove Ammon to York this morning. We started our Christmas shopping on Wed. and although Elena was really good at the Bon Ton, the stupid store is so not stroller friendly (although not as bad as Shippensburg University on Tuesday where you can't use the elevators if you don't have a key and the doors don't have wheelchair access buttons and the students are too rude to hold the door for you-- I think I'm going to right a threating-ish letter to their disabilities office because I don't consider that equal access). So it was basically a bust that day but I will not give up! I will lead a normal life even with infant! That's all for now seeing as monkey powers are reviving Elena from her deep sleep on my shoulder. Stay tuned for a Race update...
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(Anonymous)
2004-12-10 13:53
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i love your hair! it's so cute. also, how come you were at shippensburg university? i have a friend that goes to school there so i was just wondering...
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(Anonymous)
2004-12-10 18:28
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You will have to forgive me for thinking it is hillarious that you would A) worry about accidentally throwing your baby over the balcony (possibly a symptom of Michael Jackson syndrome?), and B)worry about the baby being a midget. The latter almost caused me to do a spit-take.
On to the main point of my comment--I am amused by the idea that you refer to the baby as resembling a "monkey," because, from these pictures, at least, the baby strikes me as bearing a strong resemblance to Ammon (so much so that perhaps she should be called "Ammina").
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(Anonymous)
2004-12-10 19:19
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Ok, let me clarify what I mean when I say I am afraid of throwing her over the balcony. I am not afraid that I will intentionally do so (which would be insane). I am afraid I'll be walking along and trip or she'll do one of her full body jerks when I'm not paying attention. This strikes me as perfectly cromulent.
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(Anonymous)
2004-12-11 05:21
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oh man, i totally hear you with the irrational fear thing. i used to be really scared that there would be a razor blade in my hamburger and i would cut my mouth open. i would think that every time i drove by mcdonalds. i would also be really scared that i would accidentally sit on Pearl or step on her or something to accidentally kill her. maybe it's a girl thing....or maybe it's a Lee-girl thing cause i think jennette has weird fears too. whatever it is, i totally know what you meant when you said you'd be scared you'd throw her over the balcony
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(Anonymous)
2004-12-11 05:23
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oh ps: totally random, but i've found other people who have the smoking dream.
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