This Is What Interfaith Marriage Looks Like

We're over here enjoying the wind-down of the Easter-Passover nexus. Lots of uneaten hot-crossed matzoh and the like. Hope you had a joyous spring holiday.

Waiting for it to start to warm the ef up around here. I am so tired of feeling cold all the time. Although I recently read an article in the NYT about this so-called brown fat stuff that is activated by cold and helps you lose weight. This made me feel less guilty about sitting in my freezing kitchen eating bag after bag of chips. (Okay, this paragraph is starting to make me feel like a) I have to start linking to something else besides the NYT - it's all I ever do; and b) I am starting to feel like a living, breathing Cathy cartoon.)

Willa has recently entered a new phase. One that includes hitting whatever is in front of her when she is even slightly thwarted. Today at a restaurant when I took away her cup she hit me, then the table and then screamed out some gibberish that I am pretty sure was "I WILL CUT YOU!!!" This kind of scenario plays out pretty much hourly these days. Two is going to be fun, I can feel it. But she looks like this so, kiiiinda hard to not come crawling back for more. Sigh. Yummy.

Comments

[E.]

Okay, I know all I ever say in your comment box is "OMG, me too!" But OMG, Roo is A. totally going through a hitting phase, and B, way too adorable to be mad at for more than three seconds. When thwarted, she just hauls off and decks us. Sometimes she even hits me at night if I pull her off the breast and she hasn't had enough nursing. Does that sound like an abusive relationship or what? We're trying to teach her not to hit, of course, but so far the message isn't sinking in. (We're also trying to teach her big bro not to hit her back, which is going somewhat better.)

But she also gives hugs and kisses at the drop of a hat, and says really cute things in that baby talk language they have, so we're pretty much putty.

[LetterB]

I know, I feel like I should insert a disclaimer that she is still so sweet most of the time. Loves to kiss and hug. Although sometimes these days when she's kissing me I feel like she's sizing up the best part of my face to bite later. Little minx.

We really need to get those two together someday. And then run.

[bubbie]

this comment is from an unassociated person who happens to live in orinda california. are those the two cutest kids EVER??????? oh, and those dresses....yellow and pink....do they make you hyperventilate?

[Jill from langerloksh]

So pritt-y!