What Stephen Wants

Mimi: Stephen, do you want to go with Daddy and Arthur or stay here with Mommy and Elizabeth?

Stephen: Love. All I want just is love.

everything became shitty on May 4. Friday May 1 was the last really good day

Marriage Killer

So the best way to get Elizabeth to sleep is to lay down with her, nurse a bit and wait for her to drop off. Problem is I always fall asleep too. At about 9:30 pm. Leonard stays up by himself to the wee hours of the morning playing Spore.

Parenting is

scraping green mucous baby poo into a sample vial at 4 am.

Stephen Lookalike

Mimi and I both agree on this, though unfortunately we don't have a photo that really shows this. With his hair a certain way, Stephen looks uncannily like Rod Blagojevich. (And Mimi, with her hair a certain way, could've done Sarah Palin for Halloween.)

Stephen has not slept in bed for weeks

The boys got sleeping bags for Christmas. After the initial spate of floor sleeping, Arthur now will only very occasionally trot his out for a change of pace. But for quite some time now (weeks? months?) Stephen has not once slept in his bed. I think he's scared to, for some reason. He doesn't even bother with the sleeping bag any more; he just puts a couple pillows on the floor and sleeps on those. Last night, we did the tent thing -- putting chairs around them (Arthur tried too, since this was new) and draping blankets on top.

Chomper

Leonard is sick. Low fever, achy and sore throat. I am convinced he will contaminate the house and get Elizabeth sick. Weird spring snow storm last night and today. Arthur is on spring break and we are a little bored. We tried gas drops with Elizabeth and she has been less fussy today. I am stressed out by the silliest things with my teaching. I am hardly teaching so clearly I have no capacity for real work yet. The boys play endlessly with a nexium clip they have named "Chomper," and two rubber snakes named "Snakey," and "Snakey's Mom." I have been informed that Chomper's mom is deceased.