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Maybe it gets easier to find free time when the kids are older? Baby had a great first Christmas, even it he doesn't know it. eeknight posted some xmas pics of the Little Man (and EEK's first Bûche de Noël, which was yummy).

Hope you all had great holidays & wish you all the best for the new year!

Rockin' the binky-n-shades look in French Lick, Indiana, during his first road trip!

Sprog charmed all the ladies with his bald head & toothless grin. Mom, Dad & Grandma Nancy got to relax in the spa and explore the recently restored West Baden Springs Resort

by Jeff at Ebert's in the OP.



The Sprog has started babbling in the past week. It is so adorable! He also got his first cold, but was surprisingly chipper anyway, even when I was aspirating the boogers from his nose. He's just a happy little guy I guess.

My dad visited over the weekend and my mom will be flying up this weekend. When family visits our job is to feed or diaper the Sprog, then hand him over. I hardly know what to do when I have both hands free.

Brett Favre is dead to me.

The Sprog turned 3 months old on Thursday, and I just finished up my second week back at work. It's getting easier to leave him on workdays. At least I'm not fighting back tears all the way to the office like I was the first 2 days. I'm glad I work part-time and that eeknight works from home & can be with the boy on my work days. We have a friend coming in for a few hours a week to babysit so EEK get some solid writing time in too.

The Sprog survived his first day care experience this week. EEK & I returned to our health club (finally) and the boy went to the kids' club while we worked out. Basically, he had a baba and went to sleep. I think we were more stressed out than he was about the whole experience. Round two is tomorrow morning while we go to yoga.

In other news, I'm on hiatus from the Gypsy Queens. I tried to resign outright, but Piper wants to keep the door open. Fine with me. I'd been trying to make a decision about the GQs for years and the Sprog finally forced the issue. Oriental is my true dance love anyway. I'm going to start doing private lessons, which will be easier to fit in. As for performing, who knows. I suppose that'll be on hiatus for a while too. I'm simply not one of those women who has to do it all. I just want to enjoy my family & my life and be happy.

Speaking of happy, check out the new baby pics!

( beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful boy )

Happy seventh wedding anniversary eeknight! I love you, I've loved you for the last 8 years, and every day we've been married has been better than the last.

( or, two lunar months )

We finally captured a smile on camera!

eeknight & I are very amused that our Little Man yelled back at Charlton Heston at the end of Planet of the Apes. 7 weeks old and already he's a critic!

( time flies )

The boy is an eating machine. He's been chowing since 9, with only a couple 20-minute breaks between feedings. I hope this means he's getting ready for another growth spurt and not that he's a changeling.

My Little Man was born on May 13 at 10:02 am. He weighed 8lbs, 6oz and was 20 inches long. Pictures below the cut (if you peeked at eeknight's LJ you've seen these already).

( Bebe )

Yeah, yeah. Long time, no post. What can I say? My creative energies have been diverted elsewhere, and he will be born via c-section later this morning. You didn't miss much. My LJ posts would mostly have been complaining about such things as shopping for maternity formalwear, walking like a sumo wrestler, and the dietary horrors of being a vegetarian with gestational diabetes.

OK, there was my belly portrait sitting.

Actually, aside from the GD, this pregnancy has been pretty easy. No morning sickness to speak of. Lots of fatigue & insomnia, but those were easily treated with naps. eeknight has been excellent at pampering me and getting the condo ready for baby. I'm looking forward to introducing him to our son (the boy's been kicking my organs for months, so I feel we already have an intimate connection).

Trying not to think about the surgery and recovery too much, but I'm pretty sure this will be me returning chez EEK-Chats on Saturday:

I had planned to post a scan of the ultrasound, but apparently eeknight doesn't want a pic of his son's wanger all over the intarweb.

No, we haven't picked a name yet.

My lunch cost exactly $6.66.

Maybe I shouldn't have gotten the jalapeno cornbread.

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I almost made it through the holidays this year without hearing my most hated version of a Christmas carol. Thanks to a quick pre-storm trip to the grocery store, I was subjected the Barbra Streisand singing "Jingle Bells." Gah! I just want to shake her every time I hear it. Stop ruining Christmas Babs!

I recovered from my aural trauma enough to spend the afternoon making xmas cookies, which always makes me happy. I mean, didn't even flinch when Manheim Steamroller came on the radio! Or that guilt-ridden one my John Lennon either.

One of the things I found in the box from my grandparents' house was my grandmother's cookie press. Thanks to that gem, I was able to introduce eeknight to spritz cookies--a holiday staple in my family, but not in his (ancestors from different parts of Germany, I guess).

This recipe comes the closest, but mine doesn't have any new-fangled electric mixer directions (I had to figure that out for myself--why have a Kitchen Aid if you're not going to use it). Also no currants or other decor. Spritz come out of the oven perfect.

I made a double batch, so hopefully there will be some left to bring into work on Monday.