gearing up, and little creatures

[flea]

Last week was a pisser - I worked 7 days in a row. This week is okay - I work Wednesday night, but Friday is a furlough day. But then on Sunday mr. flea leaves on a trip (through Thursday), and he'll be gone another 5 days in mod-November. And my mother is coming for that, which helps in some ways (less worry about how to get Dillo to daycare), and is hard in others (MY MOTHER IN MY HOUSE - always touch and go.) Just gotta keep plugging through.

Our neighbor has a new puppy - an 11-week old border collie. (Her previous dog, also a border collie, died of old age in the spring.) It's little and submissive and licky and she's thinking of naming it Indie or Milkshake (although Casper suggested Rosemary, and Dillo suggested "Cheese." Heh.)

Then there was the feral kitten we dealt with on our camping trip, and a couple of different coworkers are fostering kittens ready for adoption. So little and sweet! Must remember we have one cat, who does not like other cats, and kittens grow up into cats. (This holds double if we took kitten siblings - do we really want to be a 3-cat household?)

A bunch of people in my life are back in baby mode, too, and as I am nearly finished getting baby stuff out of our house, I am thinking about babies, too. If we had decided to have a third, it would probably have been this summer or fall. I look at newborns and don't want one, but the charm of the 6 month old cannot be denied. (I mean, remember this?
). And Casper is at a point where she would be so helpful and charming as a big sister, and... ah well.

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[ste-noni.livejournal.com]

I so wanted another baby Frisco's entire first year. And I still do theoretically, but as we get farther and farther from babyhood, it seems harder and harder to imagine being right back there. Still, as you said with Casper, Ellie would be a great helper. I've been telling myself that maybe we wait another year and see. Overall, I'm glad I had kids a bit later, but it's times like this when I wish I had more years of fertility ahead of me.

Is that Dillo above? So cute and yes, 6 months is such a fun little baby age.