Duet

Post-bath singing, here.

All Elijah All The Time

It may seem like I never have anything to talk about here o`ther thHAN Elijah (who is helping me type btw), which is partly true, but it's also partly true that I use this blog as a diary in which to record things I don't want to forget (on which I record things? can a blog be said to have depth, like a book?). Anyway, just for the record, we went to his month nine checkup today and he is: 28 inches long / 20 lbs. 11 oz. heavy = 75th% for height and 50th% for weight. Also, he has learned to snort. Conversations with Elijah are now peppered with snorts. He is funny and a little rude. He looks like this:

Lists

It's like I'm always making lists lately. There's grocery lists, of course. But I feel like I have more to-do lists than ever before. If I don't write something down there's a very good chance I won't remember I ever thought it. And we quit Netflix, so now I have to keep an actual list of movies to see (one day, when I can go to the movies again). And so sometimes, like when Elijah is asleep and I'm next to him on the bed and can't get away without waking him, and so I just lay there and ponder or doze, I keep making lists in my head as I go. Dumb lists. Or, banal anyway. Like, my top five favorite books. Not of all time, of course, because that's impossible. I mean, you're not even of one mind for all time. But, right now, your top five.

1. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
2. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein
3 W, or the Memory of Childhood, Georges Perec
4. Austerlitz, W. G. Sebald
5. Persuasion, Jane Austen

But then I can't stop. I'm like, okay, five alternates:

6. The Mirror in the Well, Micheline Aharonian Marcom
7. Pamela, a novel, Pamela Lu
8. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
9. The Ravishing of Lol Stein, Marguerite Duras
10. at this point I start to panic . . . I maybe need three slots here . . .

Or, the top five things that make Eljah laugh and/or talk his happy funny words:

1. Touching a new and coveted item (this morning, it was Mama's nightgown on the floor)
2. The cat
3. Waking up in a good mood and with Mama right there and looking around and waving arms as if to say "One day, all this will be mine, as far as the eye can see"
4. Pulling books off shelves
5. Pulling all laundry out of the basket