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I also forgot to link our first snow day… the building of asian frosty…

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Meimei is growing up fast. She’s eating solids, sitting up by herself, crawling… not walking yet… we’re in no rush to have two girls running around the house. But we can’t wait either!

Looks like E2 wore out both mommy and E1. This is what I find when I came home from work the other day.

So much fun!

Our little girl grows up so fast! Crawling now, rolling over, and started eating solid foods. So fast.

#2 is enjoying the view from her seat. Hand-eye coordination seems to be improving.

Q: Is it normal for a two month old to have infrequent bowel movements?
A: Yes.

According to “What to Expect”… it is perfectly normal for a breastfeeding baby to not have daily bowel movements. It is even normal for a baby to have them every other day or even once a week. I looked up all these different sources on the internet and found that many other parents had the same issue with their children. So we were some what reassured. It had been about six days since Edith had her last one. Mommy even set up an appointment at Kaiser tomorrow if nothing happened… The only warning they gave was that it was going to be explosive…

They weren’t kidding. After holding up at the “train station” for six days, the train left the station this evening. There was just too much to handle in the size 2 diaper that Edith was wearing. Needless to say, she got a bath right after the incident.

The brown ring around her belly is not part of her shirt nor is it a towel or some special effects of the photo… That, my friends, was the overflow from the diaper. The pants were fine… it was just everything above the waist that wasn’t protected… her stool just overflowed out of the diaper and onto the shirt… it ended up being a two person job to remove her clothes and to wash her down.

Here are some more photos from this month. Visits from family and friends as well as our own little nursery. Enjoy and please feel free to stop by… but let us know in advance ;)

No One-One-Two
I could not for the life of me remember the science fiction short story which contained this line. I knew it had to do with Mars… Anyways a few weeks back, two was the extent of my daughter’s counting. She knew there were more numbers, but two was about all she cared about, so that’s all she counted to.

But in the story, a human meets an alien and tries to communicate with him/it. He learns to count and uses numbers to convey his meaning. The story is called A Martian Odyssey by Stanley G. Weinbaum. A story I read in high school… a long, long time ago.

“I tried questioning him. I pointed at a pyramid and asked ‘People?’ and indicated the two of us. He set up a negative sort of clucking and said, ‘No, no, no. No one-one-two. No two-two-four,’ meanwhile rubbing his stomach. I just stared at him and he went through the business again. ‘No one-one-two. No two-two-four.’ I just gaped at him.”

“That proves it!” exclaimed Harrison. “Nuts!”

“You think so?” queried Jarvis sardonically. “Well, I figured it out different! ‘No one-one-two!’ You don’t get it, of course, do you?”

“Nope—nor do you!”

“I think I do! Tweel was using the few English words he knew to put over a very complex idea. What, let me ask, does mathematics make you think of?”

“Why—of astronomy. Or—or logic!”

“That’s it! ‘No one-one-two!’ Tweel was telling me that the builders of the pyramids weren’t people—or that they weren’t intelligent, that they weren’t reasoning creatures! Get it?”

Anyways, when my daughter counts up to two… she may mean more than she lets on ;)

Here is more background information on Weinbaum and Martian Odyssey.

Or check out the collection of stories in the: Science Fiction Hall of Fame.

Well, it seems like my girls are getting along.  I hope this last past the first few days though.  Our older daughter is learning to be gentle again.