Quieting Up

I've Decided Mom and Dad Need Additional Challenges

After a spell when I wasn’t able to speak with any of my far flung family, that unacceptable reality was shattered last night. My Favorite Son reported the BRS, despite looking ever more charming in the accompanying photos, took a step back on the bottle training front. A couple weeks ago she was readily taking mom milk from the bottle almost as readily as the product source. In line with a cantankerous side that she’s already displayed in other areas, this week she decided she wasn’t going to do the bottle any more. This can be considered a critical failure since the ABFA’s return to work date is inexorably approaching and the day care providers will need a bottle trained resident. On the upside the BRS is now sleeping up to five hours a night which is considerable progress.

You Got a Problem with That!?

Dad - The Bunny goes to the Side!

Much Better

I also spoke with the New Jersey clan and the FBR was, for once, very talkative. She knows she’s coming to stay with us for a week shortly and she was laying out some plans and tasks for me to accomplish. She noticed I had acquired a green necklace during some of my St Patty’s Day shenanigans and used the little known codicil of granddaughter authority in acquiring that, or at least the promise I would give it to her when she arrives. This morning she constructed a fishing pole out of a string from Wingman’s hoodie, a wrapping paper stick and a magnet. This can be added to the mountain of evidence that we have a very creative handful on our hands in the FBR.

With her Fishing Pole

Laughing with a Neighbor Friend

Bring on the Dancing Girls

Her long absent abuela, my Favorite Panamanian, had the temerity to complain that a little bit of light rain fell on the beach in front of the condo yesterday. She received scant sympathy. As I look out my office window right now it is snowing. I know there are readers from January editions of Frail Deeds that are snickering right now. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.

Snow! - It's April 6th!!!!!!!!

Keene Friend bunked at the house yesterday and we went out to dinner and then a scary movie. We saw A Quiet Place which is a very interesting and tension filled (in a good way) experience. Real life husband and wife John Krasinski and Emily Blunt portray a couple with three small children trying to survive by staying absolutely quiet because incredibly vicious, indestructible monsters hunt by sound alone and have already killed off most of the human population, not to mention racoons. The movie opens in drug store in a deserted town as the family is scavenging needed drugs before tip toeing home on carefully laid out sand paths. They should have stopped by the birth control aisle because the movie jumps forward in time as Blunt is preparing to give birth under these silent conditions. We all know the one thing never associated with that process and the aftermath is silence. It was weird sitting through a movie in almost complete quiet and this draws the viewer into the world this family is confronting. A great horror movie with unrelenting tension and a very satisfying conclusion, well worth a watch.