All I Need with This Newborn: a Chest for Nursing and Arms for Holding.

All my other body parts are getting so little use, that when I did my hair the other day, my arm got tired. Seriously! It’s been that long since I used the arm in an up and back position. All my muscles are atrophying except those used for holding and lactating.

Which means I’ve discovered a new Rule of the Universe: Nursing Moms Will Slowly Evolve to Mere Armed Torsos, Lacking Triceps. Over a period of several thousand more years, we’ll see the gradual disappearance even of the back.

Scientific journals of the world, take note. This amateur evolutionist discovered it first.

Love from a heart that’s disappearing,
Miss Mary Clare

Update on our Life

We have a son! Little Joshua is a sweet little boy. We’re very happy with 2 kids for now, but giving birth was such an empowering experience (yep, what I read in the hippy books I found to be true), that I already find myself wanting to do it all – that part of having a kid – a few more times. Strange and inconsistent? Yes.

Toddler Testing Boundaries

“That paper is not for your mouth. Let’s not eat paper.”

…toddler looks around and puts a different piece of paper in her mouth:

“No, that’s paper, not in your mouth, please. Why would it be okay for the 2nd paper if not the 1st?” (with a grin).

…toddler looks up at parent, down at floor, then stoops and puts yet another piece of paper in her mouth. Is again told to take it out, but the parent realizes it’s a small plastic toy:

“Oh, ok, that’s ok; that’s a toy.”

…toddler scans the room, zeros in in a coloring book, brings it to her mouth:

“No, that’s made of paper. Take it out please.”

…we move on to testing the bouncy seat toys, looking at Mommy after licking each:

(sigh) “Yes. I guess that’s ok.”

…the taste testing tour continues with a backpack (“it’s ok in theory, but that’s Daddy’s, so it’s not ok to taste it if he doesn’t want you to. Clear?”), footstool (“um, I guess that’s ok.”), etc.

Real Life Training is complicated,
MMC