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Holding up the walls.

Wait.  Didn't she just start crawling?  Don't we get a couple of months before she is standing and pulling up on everything?  No, no we don't.  At this rate, she'll be walking by Thanksgiving.  Good Lord, help us.

At least she takes her job of holding up the walls very seriously.

It won't say tit.

My sister gave me this great Leapfrog Alphabet Pal Caterpillar.  I imagine she got tired of it's incessant chatter and cheerful chipper letter pronunciation.  It has 26 legs, each one with a letter on it.  When you press a leg, it can either say that letter or sound out that letter.  Like the letter 'M' is either "em" or "mm".  Of course, the first thing I do is see if it will sound out swear words, and to my pleasure, I discover that there are some bad words it just won't say.  The brilliant minds at Leapfrog were way ahead of me, they must have programmed it so that if you tried to spell "tit" or "fuck", there is a little girl's voice that giggles and then says "That tickles!"  I have really tried outwit it, and I can get it to say "shit" and many other words that I won't type here (what a mom!), so they were clearly selective in what they deemed appropriate.  Or maybe they figured a 2 year old wasn't going to try to spell vagina.

And Ivy likes it, mostly because it's antennae light up.  I wonder how long before she tries to make it say tit?

Two words

Unlike how we eat, savoring every morsel and waxing poetic about the burrata at A16 or the butterscotch pudding at Town Hall or a plate of Sweetwater oysters with a bottle of Sancerre at Hog Island...unlike all that, when it comes to feeding Ivy, two words are our mantra.

Keep shoveling. 

There's about a 6.5 minute window during which food can be shoveled with Ivy's cooperation.  When that window closes, the cajolling, airplaning, goofy faces and attempted shoving-while-laughing starts.  This results in a mess and a cranky baby.  I usually stop feeding her when she exhibits the "enough" sign but sometimes there's that one more spoonful of avocado I want to get down her...you'd be amazed how many places a tiny hand full of avocado can touch in under a minute.