Random Mental Detritus

1. My chiropractor really worked over my shoulder yesterday. It is so sore today. Also: guess who's a pervert and kind of liked it? Related: I have a weird pain tolerance. I keep thinking that my ability to bear pain has gone to hell since I was pregnant, but then I have a session like this where he's bearing down on tender pressure points and I know I should be wincing and asking him to back off but, well, it just aches, my shoulder aches every damn day, this is just a little more achey, BFD.

2. I read this article on potty training today and I kind of wanted to slap both "experts." Expert #3, Dr. Taubman, is a little more reasonable. Classic dialectic, I know, and I am therefore suspicious, but nonetheless.

3. The other day for lunch I ate a Blue Velvet cupcake. Why hasn't anyone thought of this before? Red velvet cake, for those not in the know, is simply devil's food cake plus food coloring and cream cheese icing. Simply swap the shade of food coloring and voila! Hipster dessert heaven!

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Simone's first joke:

"Wanna hear a joke? OK: 'Dog meets tomato.' Laugh!"


Simone's second joke:

"Knock knock."

"Who's there?"

"Lettuce and poop!"

More milestones only a parent could love

a.k.a. "boring parenting post ahoy," a.k.a "it gets better, the feeding children edition."

April seems to have finally emerged from her picky eating phase. First she started asking for "ham!" a la Ponyo in her lunch. Then she started hitting up a nice mom hanging out in the yard after summer school for dried mango and banana bread and "dinosaur cookies," which were actually chicken nuggets -- her first taste of all three foods. (Fortunately the nice mom brought enough of everything except the latter to share.) And last night, the big breakthrough! We were having pasta for dinner. She asked for noodles and "sprinkle cheese" and I told her that all the noodles already had sauce on them. She wanted to try them anyway! ("But no tomatoes and no leaves.") And then she ate them! And liked them!

Consider that just a few weeks ago I finally implemented the rule "if you ask for it you have to take at least one bite." This is a big improvement. And also, I am now much less worried that she subsists entirely on pretzel sticks and blueberries.