We have to see the chimp playing hockey! That's hilarious! The ice is so slippery, and, and monkeys are all irrational. We have to see this!

Anya ,'Bring On The Night'


Natter 69: Practically names itself.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Nilly - Mar 01, 2012 10:01:48 pm PST #24844 of 30001
Swouncing

Skipping some more, because according to the Hebrew Calendar (why, yes, my fingers almost automatically wanted to type "Buffista Calendar" and I had to conciously remind them what I was talking about and that I was the boss of them), today is the Hebrew date of PiBaby's birthday (um, obviously, being March 2nd, it's not Pi day, since the Hebrew and general dates don't coincide every year, but the Hebrew date is the one we feel have more meaning for us, even when Pi-less).

I have no idea how it can be a whole year already. And then I look at this wonderful little person who gets anywhere around here and says a few words and understands way more than we realize of what we say around him (he didn't just learn a new language - he learned the whole concept of having a language, and then went ahead and started having one), and I'm amazed at how much he developed in such a short time (he grows a sense of humor! I mean, some people spend decades without one, and he already has a really good one! How can that be? Where could he have learned how to not just use one, but to actually develop one? From scratch? From what comes before "scratch" and makes it start going).

And I keep being grateful that we were so lucky in that biggest-luck-of-the-draw ever, and got blessed by this precious responsibility of taking care of that wonderful human being that he is already showing character of being. I have no idea how come we deserve this, but we feel so deeply blessed by his presence in our lives.

Yes, even when he wakes up in tears for the third time on 4am.

In order to share even a little part of what a joy he is, I offer this still-several-months-old-in-content [link]

(And I'll try to flood less with pictures in the future, sorry! I probably seem like a total fan girl with all that! Oops.)


Shir - Mar 01, 2012 10:28:51 pm PST #24845 of 30001
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

Oh, Nilly, happy birthday to PiBaby!


Calli - Mar 02, 2012 1:08:34 am PST #24846 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Awwwwwwwwwww! Happy birthday, PiBaby!


Calli - Mar 02, 2012 1:16:36 am PST #24847 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Peanut butter oatmeal: In far better political news, Maryland legalized gay marriage, effective 1/1/2013. [link] I understand the usual troglodytes are planning a referendum to try and overturn it, but still--yay MD Gov!


Anne W. - Mar 02, 2012 1:24:04 am PST #24848 of 30001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

Happy birthday, PiBaby!

Also, way to go, former state of residence!


billytea - Mar 02, 2012 1:42:01 am PST #24849 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Happy birthday, Pi Baby! Hear, O Israel, the cutest baby in thy country is one.


Sue - Mar 02, 2012 2:03:05 am PST #24850 of 30001
hip deep in pie

Happy Birthday PiBaby!


SailAweigh - Mar 02, 2012 2:52:59 am PST #24851 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Happy Birthday, PiBaby!

Congratulations, Juliana and Martin!

I'm so happy to be able to come in here and see good news being shared. We've had way too much of the other kind and the universe owes us a little good to balance it out. Yeah, I know, the universe doesn't care, but I do and aren't I the center of the my universe?


Jesse - Mar 02, 2012 3:04:21 am PST #24852 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Always more pictures, Nilly! And happy birthday to the PiBaby!

Also,

(he didn't just learn a new language - he learned the whole concept of having a language, and then went ahead and started having one),

Isn't that the most amazing thing? I mean, babies and kids are doing all these things for the first time ever! (I am reminded of being at a friend's house the first time her baby threw up. Less amazing as a thing, but still so interesting. She was so offended by the taste in her mouth! Anyway....)


Hil R. - Mar 02, 2012 3:22:04 am PST #24853 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Yom huledet sameach, Amitai!