HI

It has been a goal of mine once Dylan's sleep gets regular enough to get up at 6:00am and take Snuffy running before she wakes up. Had I been functioning at that level, this morning would have been a golden opportunity for me since I was up then anyway. Unfortunately, it was after several hours of trying to get Dylan to sleep. So I squandered my big chance and opted for what amounted to a quick nap once I got her down.

Aaron put a valiant effort into getting her down, but when he walked back into our room with twenty-some pounds of baby at his side I knew it was going to be a long haul. We tried our usual trick of having her thrash around the bed while we ignore her and sleep, but it worked out a little differently that usual. Dylan was, reasonably enough, avoiding the scalding touch of the radioactive lava poison mattress. Her main strategy involved putting as much of me as possible between her and it, so as you can imagine everyone got a lot of sleep that way. It started with the usual fuzzy head dive bombing into my face, but quickly progressed to burrowing her head under my chin like a vampire whose teeth need a good sharpening. Aaron started giggling at the point where she planted her butt on my head and started kicking. ***BREAKING NEWS*** HE JUST BROUGHT HER DOWNSTAIRS WHY IS SHE NOT ASLEEP FOR THE NIGHT?!! I QUIT.

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Today when I picked her up at daycare they said that one of the kids had sneezed, then right afterwards they heard Dylan off to the side going "CHOO." They also discovered that she will blow her nose upon being handed a tissue. I think both are a testament to how bad my allergies have been lately. There is a new teacher in the classroom who I like already solely based on her telling me that story today -- the other one just doesn't seem to want to exchange any extraneous words and I have been missing the stuff her old teachers would tell me about her day. I think Aaron put his finger on it today when he said the one teacher treats me like I am an authority figure and she has a problem with authority.

Dylan has been saying "hi" lately. Of course it cannot be captured on film, but it is hilarious. She says it with this very breathy h sound and then grins.