Eight Karen Kuhl 9/20 '14

My cat is snoring so loudly I'm wondering how he isn't waking himself up. It's really quite comical.

Today I cleaned up the house a little, slept a lot, cleaned up the house a little more, took a short walk with the fuzz-bucket, and here I am ready for sleep again. Tomorrow I see my one brother and his 6-week-old and the rest of the gang. Apparently there's all kinds of new trendy stuff now that comes with having babies: "push presents" and "baby introduction" parties. Man, I am out of the loop anymore.

Anyway, I get to hold a baby tomorrow, see the fam, and eat some noms. Babies are fun when they're that small. They don't do much but lay around and make funny noises. Kinda like cats.

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9/20 '14 7 Comments
When babies are that small they are actually martians, complete with the "AP AP AP" noise. Shhh, don't tell.
Thomas Boutell
The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one.
Sean M Puckett
"Push presents?"
Lindsay Harris Friel
I don't know much about it other than the wife gets a gift the day she gives birth. My brother got her a birthstone ring for the first child, and then updated (updated?) it with the second. I didn't ask what she gets if she goes C-section. ;p
Karen Kuhl
a bracelet with a fancy clasp instead of a ring?

I'll see myself out now.
Lindsay Harris Friel
Now I remember, I had heard of push presents, but my brain decided to forget it, because it didn't want to waste brain cells on it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ashley-hesseltine/what-women-think-about-push-presents_b_5127450.html
BARF.
Lindsay Harris Friel
Yeah, I'm putting it down as one of those "you wouldn't do it yourself until you find out that you would" things, like getting married, wearing a white wedding gown, doing the honeymoon thing, all the other crap I swore I was too cool to do at one point.

You and I aren't baby crazy at the moment so it's kinda like "wut?", but having been there once, I'm telling you this is one of the saner things I've heard. (Ask me sometime all about "baby dancing" and "baby dust".)
Karen Kuhl