Dailies

For anyone having problems identifying these behaviors in the wild: a short primer.
This is what a napping child looks like:

This is what a “napping” child looks like:

Piper and Addie laughing
Above, Addie and Piper sharing some chuckles at dinner last night.

Piper-Notes-2
Here’s the next installment of our Piper Notes. Included in today’s installment:

A failed attempt to get a laugh out of her using bathroom humor, and our lamentations that she is not our trained monkey
A review of her accomplishments in the last six weeks, interspersed with
random coos, cries, and snorts, painstakingly hand-collected by Kate and me
Some [...]

When Piper’s slowly ascending from the depths of sleep (and given the horrors inherent in getting the bends, a slow ascent is advisable) she’ll sometimes squawk a few times. Kate or I will wait a minute, and then go into the bedroom. If her eyes are open wide, she’s up. If they [...]