security duty

You should send Julia an e-card or something because she finally cut the take-the-bottle-and-blankie-everywhere cord (outside of nap and bed cagetime). What? Pediatricians recommend that you wean children from bottles at one year of age?  I'm well aware. It's not like I didn't try. And we're only 13 months behind. She went cold turkey and had no choice in the matter but seems to be coping well.  We've only had one meltdown per public outing and I've only been tempted every single day to climb back on the wagon and beg her crutches to reconsider and return to the fold forever. 

To fill her empty hands and the void in her blue heart she has taken to bringing various items with us on our safaris to the exotic lands of the far away grocery store that gives out free cookies and the closer grocery store with the questionable produce.

Monday's trove: Dora backpack fashioned into a dainty noose/necklace secretly filled with (never worn of course) Dora underwear and a Dora doll that is just small enough to lose every 34 seconds.

Tuesday's loot: 1/8 eaten apple, swim diaper, 1/2 of a book, a rosary and a polite stare at the third young individual to move into the house next door this week (confusing Grace Kravitz to no end).

And what does Sebastian require when he leaves the confines of our abode? Nothing. Ever. He has to maintain his favorite offspring status somehow.



What? Boring?? It's not like there's anything else newsworthy going on in the great United States of America today.  Nothing at all.