First time for everything

No picture on this one, but the baby girl took a very baby poo in the potty today. Yeah!

Read - Fahrenheit 451

Read Fahrenheit 451 last week. Small book. Big story. Very interesting. Got it for $1 from Heavenly treasures, our local "used stuff" shop. Short book, but very good. Montag is a fireman, and in this world, firemen start fires, whenever someone has been found with a book. Books are outlawed, and people are fed a steady diet of television, in the form of in-home "parlors" where the walls are interactive screens allowing the people to communicate with each other, much like a webcam and monitor allows us to do today.

The main focus is that books inspire you to THINK, whereas television just feeds you bullkrap as entertainment. The government wants everyone to be happy as a first priority, and to tune out of real life and daily affairs, much as it does nowadays (Monday Night Football, anyone?).

Here are some of the parts that really stood out to me:

• Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.
  
• I hope I've clarified things. The important thing for you to remember, Montag, is we're the Happiness Boys, the Dixie Duo, you and I and the others. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought. We have our fingers in the dike. Hold steady. Don't let the torrent of melancholy and drear philosophy drown our world. We depend on you. I don't think you realize how important you are, to our happy world as it stands now.

7 out of 10.

The Kiss List

Just something that I never want to forget...

When there are multiple people around that she knows and trusts, she'll point to who she wants to kiss goodnight. So I'll pick her up and say, "Gimme a kiss, Allison." She'll give me a kiss, and then point to her grandma and say, "dat." So we go to grandman, and she kisses her. And so on, and so on. What a wonderful baby I have been blessed with.

Stacking the blocks

So she really got the hang of the whole "stacking the bugs" thing today. She understands that flat side goes on flat side, so she'll rotate the bug around until the flat side is down, and place it top of the other one. Picture there at the top gives you a pretty good idea of what I'm talking about. Of course, after I cheered for her with each successive bug, she began cheering for herself. I love my child.

Other big news...she went pee-pee in the potty today, as well. We have a small potty seat that fits over our normal toilet seat, and gives her a smaller hole as well as a soft cushion (with a duck on it) on which to conduct restroom business. She'd been snapping little toots for a bit, so I decided to see if she needed to go potty. Popped her up there, gave her a book to look at (she's gonna be so much like her daddy), and I immediately heard her urinating into the water below. Of course, I clapped and cheered and shouted "hooray" and "yeah," while she looked at me wondering if I'd gone mad. I was SO proud. Her momma came in a minute or two later (back from the gym) and caught the excitement. Our baby is great, and we are unspeakably grateful to God for blessing us with this child.

Baby update

So it's the first Allison update I've pt on here in 6 months, which means I've missed recording a WHOLE lot of stuff. The sole motivation behind this blog was that it provided a means of recording the developments in her new life. Anyways, I'll get better.

Today she stacked some blocks on her own, and even began to clean them up all by herself! That's a pretty big deal around here. She was playing with her stacking blocks (bugs), and she started putting them back in the bag by herself. We sang the cleanup song, and I held the bag while she put all the bugs into it.

In recent weeks, she's learned to walk backwards, to sip from her cup and then go "ahhhh!", to mimic sounds, etc. She has gone through most of the sounds, from 'guh' to 'ee' to 'ah' to 'ss.' She wants to talk, but she can't just yet. She can, however, understand most things we say to her. She understands "outside," "go to your room and bring a book to read," "eat," "up/down," and so many more. She knows what a duck is by sight, and will tell you if you ask her "what's that?" She'll also tell you what noise a cow makes, although it's just a drawn out "mmmmmmm." still waiting on the "oo." So much fun.

Fuel for the fire

http://www.buffalonews.com/260/story/570428.html

Here's the synopsis of the article: Lady goes into an abortion clinic near Miami, pays $1200 to have an abortion. When she's there in the chair, the 23 week baby gets anxious and comes sliding out. Now there's a live baby on the table. A clinic owner comes over, snips the umbilical cord, puts the live, breathing baby in a plastic bag and threw it in the trash. The lady who went in for the abortion is now suing the clinic for killing her baby. Her lawyer says, "The baby was just treated as a piece of garbage." The president of the local chapter for the National Organization for Women said that she was "really disturbed" by the news, and hopes women don't use clinics like that to kill their babies from now on.

If you are pro-abortion, how can you possibly have a problem with this? I say again: If you are pro-abortion, how can you possibly have a problem with this? The baby was put into a bag and thrown out the window. Had it remained 10 inches in the birth canal, or the doctor have arrived 15 minutes earlier, its arms and legs would have been ripped off with a vacuum  Had it taken an extra 15 minutes to come out, they could have melted it like a slug with a saline solution. Please forgive the strong language, but I consider it completely in context): There is no one on this PLANET - not the director of Planned Parenthood, not the doctor who was going to tear the baby apart while it was in utero, not the mom who delivered the baby, not the "pro-choice" people interviewed for the article who were "appalled" - There is no one on this PLANET who actually believes that both LIFE and whether or not you are a human being is dependent upon LOCATION. 10 inches in (birth canal), not alive and not a human. 10 inches out, Congratulations, you're now alive!! THERE IS NOT A MORE F****D-UP LOGICAL PREMISE THAN THAT!

And listen to this....This act that everyone is so outraged about, is EXACTLY what President Obama refused to pass a bill in the Illinois senate to help prevent. WTF?

Do you think that the baby could feel less 15 minutes before than she could once she came out? Because when she came out, they put her in a bag. If she'd stayed in, she'd have had her arms and legs wrenched off by a vacuum  What if they'd done that once she came out? That would be the most inhumane thing imaginable  But because she's still in the birth canal, it's all good.