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April 10, 2006
We're home after a super-extra-exhaustifying weekend in Pennsylvania. My mom is doing extremely well, considering.
We'll get biopsy results on Wednesday. Then we shall all breathe a big fat collective sigh of relief, because I think everything is going to be FINE.
(YOU HEAR THAT UNIVERSE? FINE. FIIIIINE. HOP TO IT.)
Right now, I must go sleep for a few dozen hundred hours, because the child, the gorgeous golden child light of our lives, did not sleep all weekend. AT ALL. NO SLEEP. He screamed instead. He screamed for so many hours that Jason and I were sent back in time to those horrific first days home with a newborn when we sang lullabies with the words baby baby baby why won't you fucking sleep already and then we walked into walls during the day in desperate hope of knocking ourselves into a nice blissful coma.
Also: Do not permit your in-laws to buy your child this toy. DO. NOT. Walls will not be enough. You will soon contemplate sticking the silverware into your ears.
Anyway. We're home. We're tired. But...honestly...
Even when it's bad, it's never that bad, you know?
Oh the adorableness...it's too much. He looks like such a little MAN! Glad Mom's doing fine -- fingers & toes crossed! Prayers en route.
I feel like I don't even know Noah without his ever-present Exersaucer.
Sending lots of good thoughts to your mom.
Glad your Moms is doing well. Sending good thoughts from the West Coast to the East Coast for Weds. Cute pix of little man N.
Is that an arm I see in the far right photo on top holding Noah up? Wayyy cute! he looks like he is very pedantic in that photo.
Good thoughts and prayers to your mother. my father in law is going in for his biopsy this Saturday, but he is doing so badly, I am afraid...
Down with the C-word! up with the cutie toes of Noah!!
Mmmmmmmmmm...Noah toes. Scrumptious, that boy!
Also... never let your in-laws by your golden child THIS:
www.wholesomewear.com
OMG--whave the same hideous toy! And my husband's mom played with it non-stop for the week that she was visiting. When we were in the car (having left the god-damned thing at home), she sang the songs to my daughter. Amazingly, after having heard the songs a frillion times, she still didn't know the words.
Also, there is a book that goes along with it. After some searching, though, she was not able to find it, so at least we don't have them both.
We're all thinking fine thoughts for your mom. But yah, your last line says a mouthful. Beautiful.
OMG those pictures!
I'm saying a little prayer for your Mom.
You must tell us the secret of getting Noah to smile for the camera! The minute my daughter sees a camera she gets the most serious look on her face and no amount of shaking stuffed animals at her or squealing her name gets her to smile.
Glad to hear your Mom is doing well, sorry Noah didn't sleep. Sometimes when you take them out of their familiar surroundings they just don't know what to do.
Am waking up just long enough to say that those pictures were taken at a BabiesRUs in PA (no sales tax on pyjamas! whee!) on the spur-of-the-moment when a kindly photographer offered us a free 8x10 if we'd let him "take some practice shots" (ha! haaa! suckers!), and since Noah was in a good mood and wearing spit-up-free clothes, we figured it was worth seeing if we could get one good picture out of it.
And then Noah decided that he loved the kindly photographer more than anything, ever, and was an absolute smiley delicious angel and I sat there telling everybody that seriously, THE CHILD HAS NOT SLEPT IN 48 HOURS, HELP ME.
Jason's site will have another photo, a photo that Noah will one day SUE OUR ASSES OVER, posted tomorrow morning. Haaaa. Back to bed now. Gah.
Awww! Are these the first professional photos? Geez either that photographer is really good or Noah is totally used to having a camera shoved in his face :o)
Thinking good thoughts for your mom.
So glad to hear that the surgery went well. Wil continue to send good and healthy thoughts to the mamalah.
And also? Love. Ovaries are pulsing with the cuteness of the boy.
Oh, good golly! Screamer or no, that child is adorable.
My adorable child is also a screamer of late. It's the teeth, methinks.
Ah, the fun of it all!
The sleep-deprivation-induced hallucinations!
So fun!
Zzzzzzzz
so precious!!
oh my those feet. That is just not fair.
:)
I am a lion I roar all day...I jump up and down...
yes, Nanny and Poppy bought one for Nell as well. I will never rid myself of the song.
ROAR!
Ah! It remembered me, yay!
I couldn't even read the post, there was this glowing blur of insane adorable-ness coming from below the words.
He is so flippin' CUTE!!!!!!
Your mom will be fine!!
And you and Jason are so lucky; I am so fully happy for you that you have such a beautiful, brilliant, healthy son!!
Ooh... the baby portrait cuteness. I gotta get me one of those. ;)
With the entire Internet behind your Mom, she can't be anything else but FINE.
He's a miniJason.
Toys: my husband and I have instituted a "no electric toys" policy. Because really, they're more annoying than necessary. I've decided that if someone buys us an electric toy we will call them up early one morning while our child plays with it and allow them the opportunity to enjoy the noise. Many thanks to Fussy's husband for this great idea.
Noah looks like a perfect mix of both you and Jason. Sometimes he looks more like you, sometimes more like his daddy but I must say good genetics were at play.
On a totally unrelated note: Read "Pure Drivel" by Steve Martin since A) you will love it B) I've read the archives in entirety (am not stalker, swear) and know you appreciate his work and C)You can read it while you are waiting for those silly doctors to tell you mom that she is fine, because she is
Oh baby toes! It makes me want to drive 2 hours for the soul purpose of squishing my neice! (whose toes may not be nearly as cute)
Your son is so adorable. He looks so much like you did in your posted baby photo.
Glad to hear that your mom is going to be ok! Thank God!
All my best to the momz.
Oh MAN is he cute!! I agree, he looks just like the picture of you in your sidebar, although he does look like Jason too. You'd better get an unlisted number when he starts school and meets girls. I have a nice older woman for him, LOL. Persephone says she likes bald boys, too =)
We're all pullin' for Nanalah. Hey Universe, listen up...it's almost Mother's Day, and you'd better get with the grandma's-just-fine program, or I will stick my unpedicured Sicilian foot up your black hole.
Happy thoughts and fingers crossed for the upcoming results. Also, love the professional pics!
I'm glad to hear everything with your mom seems okay. I'm thinking of your family and sending happy thoughts.
"Universe! MAMALAH IS TERRIFIC!!"
Love the photos. Those toes.
Maria
Excellent news about your mom, Amy!! So glad to hear it.
Noah's cuteness factor is off the charts. If he's this cute at only 6 months, can you IMAGINE him at a year? 5 years? 15 years?? You need to start shopping for 1) an agent and 2) a bodyguard.
If only we could look so cute after 48 hours of no sleep!
The. kid. is. adorable.
I hope the results come out as expected for your mom. :-)
I so glad your mom is doing well. My fingers are crossed for good news on the biopsy results.
Noah continues to be cuter than cute.
That kid takes a great picture! Too cute. Hope he sleeps extra long this week to make up for being such a pill this past weekend!
Awww! He's such a cutie. I'm glad your mom is doing well.
Glad to hear your mom is doing well, you are right everthing will be FINE. But I am not sure I believe that sweet looking face was screaming all weekend. There is no way, just look at him, pure innocence ;)
I'm so happy to hear that things are so far so good.
I always find that family members like to give "noisy" toys almost as a way to punish us for something we may or may not have done a very long time ago.
And Noah! Did the photographers just swoon over that cutie pie or what?
Amalah--
Glad to hear that your mom is going to be fine. That's great, great news.
Total side note, all of the pictures you have posted of Noah, I have always thought he was a spitting image of you...but when you posted the most recent photos...OMG, he looks like Jason. Regardless...you have the cutest baby on the face of the earth.
I don't post hear often, because I am not nearly as witty and interesting as the rest of the people that post. Just want to know I love your blog and Noah is delicious (no matter which parent he looks more alike).
Thinking good thoughts for your mother.
How can a child so young have such chiseled cheekbones? I'm a sucker for cheekbones.
Not a frequent poster, but I just had to say....that pic on Jason's site?
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! AWESOME!
I Love it! and yes, he will probably sue you some day!
So, those perfect photos were taken on a spur of the moment thing. No appt, no preparation? Bitch!
My son got that same stupid lion toy from my sister who hates me. I was thankful at first because it was the first gift she'd gotten any of my kids that actually had a sales tag on it. Usually she gives my kids clothes that have no sales tags and sometimes even have some other kid's name written on the back of the tag. But I guess she still got me.
So relieved to hear about your mom.
My best friend just bought the little angel "band in a box" for her second birthday.
Oh my god, I just saw the other photo of Noah on Jason's site. Noah is *so* going to sue your asses, but it will be totally worth it to show that to his girlfriends. Bwahahahahahaha.
That's wonderful! I'll make sure to remember that toy thing. I remember having one of those circly, disc-like things you sit on, and then turn your self around, make-shift merry-go-round style with that steering wheel thing in the middle that made me puke everytime. I'm sure my parents were stoked they bought that.
I love the photo on Jason's site.
When Noah objects, you can always tell him he should be glad that it isn't a glamour shot of him naked on a bear rug.
I love those feet!!
Noah is too cute!
mr. cute. what a sweetheart with that little smile.
i am glad your mom is doing well. i'm sure the results wednesday will indeed be fine.
It is never as bad as it can get. I have had it bad, then I have had it worse, then I have had it worse than that.
Then my daughter smiles at me, and the world fills with light.
Life is beautiful.
Love those toes!
oh my GOD! THE THIRD PICTURE! To me? It looks as though he's about to bust out a "one handed" "raise the roof."
Am I wrong?
The Learning Lion is evil.
Didn't you know that?