From the Mouth of LJ

My mom gave her students an assignment this week, so she has been busy grading. She doesn't enjoy that part of her job too much, but says, "you take the good. You take the bad. You take them both and there you have the facts of life." That sounds very wise to me, but someone told me that was the theme to a tv show. If there is one thing my mom knows a lot about - tv would be it.

I was out to lunch with my mom and my aunt MJ and I heard some other babies talking. One said, "agoo ah ack agoo". I thought that was brilliant. Oh, you may be out of practice with baby talk, so I'll translate the rest for you. It seems that not all babies are as nice to their parents as I am. I've been pretty easy with this whole sleeping through the night thing. Did you know that some babies cry out in the night and their parents come to get them? I didn't know this either, but it is true. One baby told me that she gets to spend several more hours in the company of her parents by using this technique. She told me to be careful though...if you do this too many nights in a row, your parents might catch on and try something called "cry it out" and you don't want any part of that. So, I tested this technique last night. At 1:30 I cried out. They didn't come. I cried out again. They still didn't come. I had to call out steadily for a minute or two and sure enough, my daddy showed up. He tried to just pat me on the stomach and put my pacifier in my mouth. This is not what I had in mind though, so I just spit the pacifier out and cried some more. You know what? The next thing I knew my mommy was up and I got to eat! I was really tired about half-way through and I accidentally fell asleep. But, at 5:30 I tried it again...and it worked again! I got to eat! I think this threw them off because 5:30 would have been acceptable if I hadn't tried the 1:30 "together time"...so I fooled them into letting me eat 2x last night. It was sooo fun! They seemed a little tired today, so I decided I'd better be really happy and easy...give 'em a break. I'm not sure if I'm going to try this tonight...I don't want to know what "cry it out" entails.

I'll tell mom to do a better job of keeping you updated.