Turmeric and Occam’s Razor
… says, paraphrased, that the simplest explanation for things is generally right. Here are some explanations for things where, I’m hoping, Occam (or “William of Ockham,” per Wikipedia) is getting it wrong.
- Piper is sneaking out of the bedroom while we’re asleep and eating fistfuls of turmeric.
- Piper is sneaking out of the bedroom while we’re asleep and telling the cats to steer clear of her or she’ll use this shiv, understand?
- Water, especially lukewarm water on washcloths, is actually highly corrosive to babies and burns, yes, my precious, like acid on their skin.
- Breastmilk served out of a bottle tastes like an ashtray-flavored Italian soda.
- Eons ago, only the young of our species who ripped the most chest hair from their fathers survived and thrived.
- Repeatedly whacking yourself in the face feels awesome and looks great!
Off to find some bleach for these brilliant-orange-stained diapers. Seriously, now, wtf.
August 2nd, 2009 at 7:34 am
A rainbow of flavors! Well, colors. Something.
We followed the strategy of sticking purely to breastmilk straight from the source for the first, hmm, four weeks? six? something like that, before we tried her with a bottle. She was perplexed by it at first, but eventually decided it was ok. Oh, although now that I think about it, she also had a hard time finding a position she liked the first time.