Thursday Baby Blogging 121808

Past Baby Blogging entries may have created the impression that SteelyKid does nothing but lie in her back in her crib. Quite the contrary-- here's a picture of her in one of her favorite activities, shaking the hanging animal toys in her play gym. The traditional Appa-for-scale is in the background-- beware of forced perspective effects.

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SteelyKid came through the whole Power Outrage like a champ. Probably better than either of her parents, whose schedules have been blown to flinders by the outage and attendant recovery activities.

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OK, as relief and comp from nagging you about QM so much (and it is weird, none of us understands it right so it humbles us all) I drop in here to say, you got a very cute and fetching baby there Chad. That giraffe is cute too even with weird bulbous feet. Best wishes for all of you and for the Holiday Season as well.

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