Baby blog shoutout and random thoughts

First off, keep up with all the Caitlin Tooker baby news here:

Livejournal - all the baby blog goodness plus a bunch of pictures

Flickr - more pictures of Caty, and others from the last couple of years.

Wow! We're two and a half months into babyland!! Caty has sure demanded plenty of time and attention from us. ALL our time and attention, I should say. And that's just fine because she's a baby. We have a baby!! Sometimes both Julie and I take a step back and take a good look at this tiny creature we brought into the world. It's crazy. She is super amazing, we love her so much. She does so many super cute things during the day and we have been trying to capture as much of it as possible. Julie is the expert at this and has taken I don't even know how many pictures. Soon I hope to put up some slideshows on youtube, and I'll put the links up on this site so stay on the lookout! We have had some hilarious and trying experiences regarding Caty, so make sure you check out the livejournal baby blog. I hope to keep that one even more regularly updated than I do this one. Hey - you can't blame me that it's been two months since the last entry (well, almost three) because this little girl pretty much won't allow you to do ANYthing except take care of her. She doesn't really like to take naps unless she's being held by somebody. I swear she'll be totally zonked out and then you put her down and, ZAM, she's up in 15 minutes or less. That definitely makes it hard to get anything done around the house. It's a time consuming battle just to stay ahead of the basic cleaning up of the place. I swear, it can go from moderately clean to a disaster in just a day and a half. And the piles of laundry, I swear.

If only I had this kind of perspective when I was living at home, I would have appreciated my mother way more. It's not like I didn't appreciate her. But I guess I sort of just 'expected' the laundry to be done. Sure, I helped fold the dry laundry and match the socks or whatever, but I certainly was not the main laundry person. I can totally see how much she would appreciate me and my bros helping out and doing our chores, it would take a great amount of work off of her shoulders.
I've been thinking about perspective a lot lately. I can just think about how much better my decisions would have been if only I could have seen things from a different angle. It's kind of a crazy thing to think about. Just how much wiser and more worldly you get as you age. But then again, making mistakes is one of the best ways to learn and get that wisdom. What a pain in the butt.

By the way, working on Halloween sucks when it's your baby's first.

You know what I dislike? Fashion.
Also the saying, 'green is the new black.' Probably any saying that goes 'blank is the new blank.' Don't give me this 'is the new' bs. If you ever read American Psycho, there's lots of crap about tailored suits and how to correctly wear certain ties and fabrics and things like that. It boggles my mind to know that some people actually think deeply about these sort of things. I mean, if it's a hobby it's okay, but if you look down on others and are a snob about it... then I don't like you. I can talk about how I hate fashion all day, but it would be boring.

You have to wash your hands when you handle a baby. Also, after you change the baby (obviously). So, lots of hand washing. And my skin around my knuckles is getting ultra dry. So dry that there's been little cracks that bled a tiny bit. The problem is that I don't ever think about putting on lotion until it gets to this point. It's also tough because who knows when the baby is going to dook next and then you have to wash the lotion off anyway because you're washing your hands. And I just put on lotion, so I don't want to have to put it on again...

Mistake of the week: Not taking pictures of Caty in her Halloween outfit before she outgrew it.