Thanks y'all!

RTS, I am EXHAUSTED, as I am sure you well understand. I never knew my body could operate on so little sleep, but somehow it's working out ok. Now that I'm back at work, my thoughts go something like, "OK, better make sure I've prepared the Powerpoint for the 2:30-- oh wait a second, before I do that, I need to run some extra diapers over to daycare becausZZZZzzzzz..."

And Hankster, I am totally having a blast! It's fun watching him grow and to see the little personality emerge. He's a very aware and alert little guy -- staring at new stuff is probably his favorite pastime.

Mast, I think "seems like a nice baby" comes off as funny because "nice" is something usually associated with either an object ("that restaurant over there seems like a nice place") or a person who is more of a... person, I guess ("he seems like a nice guy"). Babies kind of fall in between, where they are little people, but don't quite have personalities, and frankly if you take the way a baby behaves and imagine an adult behaving the same way, that adult would be a whiny narcissist with horrible communication skills, and so not nice at all. Anyway, that's why I find it funny . But as babies go, SD, he's a nice one.

I hope you're all hanging in there! I am barely hanging in there. My mood has been ok but this sure is stressful. T's been great through all of it. He was a trooper when Baby Brown, who is a master at blowing out his diaper, pooped on T during one of my maternity leave sessions. Yep. My baby pooped on my therapist. I'm sure Freud would have something to say about that, but I don't know what.