Lorelei is cute. That could be the whole blog post. I miss her all the time we’re apart. It’s still pretty all consuming.

Big snuggles and some drool make Lorelei a cutie pie

Seriously though, I’m at work and feeling analytical, so I will enumerate the ways she is cute.

1. She started laughing

Like clear baby giggles. She mostly only does it for Moriarty. He’s much funnier than Pip and me. I am only slightly hurt. It’s amazing to see their bond and that outweighs my jealousy.

2. She’s wiggly and rolly and all over the place

She’s a rolly polly. I can lay her on a blanket and walk across the room. Then when I come back she’s rolled off the blanket, or managed to turn herself 180 deg to face the other way. She’s trying to scoot but is too fat to make much progress.

3. She’s babbling

There are a lot of “ff” sounds and air bubble blowing. Some “lulu” sounds. Sometimes I just lay on the floor with her and we babble at each other.

Her sleep patterns are marginally better. This weekend she slept the “right” 7 hours. She has frequently slept 6-7 hours a night but it’s from 8 pm to 3 am. No one wants to be up at 3 am. Not Pip, not me, not even Moriarty. But one day she slept from 11:30 to 6 am. It was AMAZING!!!!!!

Some not awesome stuff happened too. She got a cold and got legitimately sick. Her fever spiked to 101 F. She had to go to urgent care. Luckily there were no secondary infections but she did have thrush (overgrowth of yeast) in her mouth and along her neck. That means we had to rub anti-fungal cream on her and wipe inside her cheek with it 4x/day. She learned fast that it was unpleasant and started clamping her mouth shut. Luckily she’s kinda dumb and not very strong so we were able to give her the meds, but I’m excited we’re done with that today.

We started doing movie nights on one weekend evening. We’re mostly showing him our personal favorites but he has opinions too. Ugh. In total, we’ve done this list. He spends a lot of time confused by characters and plot. Not so different from me to be honest.

Aladdin
Lion King - he felt really bad for Simba when Mufassa died
Little Mermaid
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (P: Moriarty, does Veruca seem nice? *pause* M: No. She is not nice.)
Wizard of Oz - he liked the witch but was confused by plain water would melt her, not special water
Mary Poppins - he was fascinated by the logistics of being a chimney sweep, and liked the carousel horses
Lego Movie - he wants to be a master builder, of course
Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie - he cackled at Yosemite Sam being battered by Bugs

Other fun stuff to report. Moriarty and I did a cake carving and decorating class. We made a family of fish. He helped with everything except the airbrushing. He has a little cedar closet near the ceiling of his bedroom. I always intended to build a ladder to it when he was big enough. He’s big enough. We built the ladder! We all planted a daffodil garden to celebrate Grandma Mary. I also dressed Lorelei up in some of her show costumes. OMG.

In this months’ segment of Shit Moriarty Says, we have:

Moriarty, upon finishing his first watching of Willy Wonka: "That warmed my heart up."
Pip: ...You're a weirdo. It's OK, we're all weirdos. Moriarty: No, I'm a cutie-pants, you two are weirdos.

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