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May 26, 2006
A tiny update
Yesterday I saw the new little (string) bean. She is, indeed, teeny-tiny, but pink as anything, and having a nice little spa treatment in her personal sauna, you betcha! It seems to me, and to everyone involved, that if anyone is going to be just fine, it is Lucia (nickname I already call her). Really, she weighs almost 3 pounds, and is long and tall, with the fingers of a really excellent guitarist. Because she's ready to rock n roll, believe it.
She and I held hands for some time, through the porthole in the baby-sauna. The pinky finger alone is proof that life is indeed strange (in a good way) and wonderful, and that impossibly tiny things will chug on under a mysterious power all their own. She is a very delicate and willful sea creature. Don't be fooled!
She's an awesome force.
My brother swears she has a visible golden halo.
Let that be a lesson to you, boys -and you know who you are, you fatherhood's-not-for-me types, not that this was my bro- you will find yourselves transformed by a brand new kind of love you never could have anticipated. Maybe you've heard it before but I've seen it in action. Not that you should listen to the woman with the audibly ticking biological time bomb, but I'm just sayin'. I seem to be the transition girl who facilitates other people's getting married to people other than me, so maybe I can inspire some more. Please keep me apprised of developments. Maybe I have a unique money-making business opportunity with my skills.
Anyhow, this is a happy day.
Later on I may be headed down to the International Mr. Leather event, oh yes, to watch the daddy bears, boys in chaps and boys in kilts! Only one of whom may be marginally interested in someone like me. But still, how I love to see the bears! Oh, its a long and sordid tale!
And this evening is our ride, ah yes, Critical Mass. For some reason a Huck Finn theme has been suggested, having something to do with donuts. Unfortunately I gave away my last pair of overalls to the Brown Elephant, I'm pretty sure.
Right now I'm staying at my bro/sil's while they are at the hospital with the little one, and looking after Marcel's cousin Sidney and two confused cats. Its rather a happy little zoo over here, especially this morning. Let me tell you what we did! Sid and I got up at 6:00 am and decided to have a leisurely stroll, sniff the flowers, chase the squirrels, that kind of thing. Oh, and roll in dog crap while Pippy is spacing out. Thus, at 6:30 am, after attempts at cleaning said putrid matter from the dog's fur with wet paper towels (omg, the foulness!! It was ungodly!!), Sid found herself in the tub. And you know how little dawgs love the tub. Luckily I did it in such a way that she never saw it coming until she was in there, and damp, and making a Profoundly Sad Face.
This is what happens when we roll in things! What do you think of it?? We had to wash her brand new leopard-spotted collar as well. Eeeew.
Thus, after shaking water and hair over every surface of the bathroom, there were the inevitable little dawg celebratory victory laps, nails scraping crazily on the wood floors because look out! A slightly damp pug/pomeranian was completely unhinged!!! Whoa. It was something to behold.
After some coffee we went back to bed.
More later.
Posted by pippypippy at May 26, 2006 10:36 AM
Comments
I like the transformed by love angle better than the one my Muslim co-worker used on me yesterday. He mentioned how God wants me to start making babies, apparently as a man it is my duty to propagate my last name. He was unfazed by the fact that my last name 'Jesus', is an artifact of Elis Island. Perhaps the name was an instant classic.
In any case, congratulations to the parents, and to you.
Posted by: Juan Jorges Jesus at May 26, 2006 12:29 PM
I am so glad someone else still uses the word "un-hinged"!!!!!!
Posted by: digg dogg daddy at May 26, 2006 05:03 PM
There is a weird life force I never knew about until my own baby got here. I think humans are kind of like parasites, or actually we *are* parasites if you look at it from the earth's perspective. So she'll survive, and soon she'll be rolling in poo and shaking bathwater everywhere with the animal menagerie at home. Hooray!
Posted by: Heidi at May 27, 2006 07:21 AM