Love, Baba

You are here! You were SO worth the wait. You smell exactly as I hoped. You have a lovely temperament. You are just so awesome.

Your Mama is an absolute natural with you. She is just so sweet with you regardless of how little sleep she gets or what time of night you need her.

We’ve been out on several adventures already. You’ve been to St. Pete several times. Once to visit our lawyer, once for a walk around downtown and to visit Sunken Gardens.

All of your grandparents adore you. Grandpa and Grandma Lee were here for a week when you were born and can’t wait to see you again. Nana and Pop-pop love having you around and enjoy your visits very much. Pop even made you a beautiful desk for when you are a bit older.

You’ve been such a good sport about being passed around to all your adoring fans - and you have many. We are absolutely in love with you little one.

Love,
Baba

Did you want to tell me about it?

I spent some time with Grant today. He is such a pleasant little guy. I assume he will start throwing things around just to cause a stir soon enough, but for now he is just about as nice to be around as one could ask. All of that and he really seems to like me so I am, naturally, completely smitten.

He speaks a language that I can only vaguely understand. I get the point most of the time though.  

If you just can't get enough, here's another one of him showing me around his kitchen.

Crochetdermy

The evolution of crochet is complete.

 

By Shauna Richardson
Via Apartment Therapy

What English Sounds like to People in other Countries

This is so great - my first experience with this was on a train in Italy. A daughter was teaching her mother English and the mother became frustrated and rambled off some fake English in disgust. The sound was disorienting. It was a moment where I realized how sheltered I'd been (and still am).

"As a neat little exercise, I have compiled a list of videos to show what English sounds like to people around the world. As English speakers, we have a lot of fun imitating what certain languages sound like to us, such as French, Italian, and Chinese.

Italian singer, songwriter, comedian, actor, and tv host Adriano Celentano wrote this amazing in 1972. The video itself is pure eye candy, and the words are what English sounds like to a non-native speaker, and they’re pure gibberish. Celentano has stated that the song is about incommunicability in the modern age, and prisencolinensinainciusol is supposed to stand for “universal love.” Amazing."

via amog.com

Mean people suck

This Orlando Sentinel article points out a nasty/hurtful tactic from the "Orlando's Florida Family Policy Council"...

"And to make their point about just how frightening this ruling was, the Policy Council included a photograph of the couple — a strange and androgynous-looking duo, one with bleached skin and both with mullet haircuts. The couple look so odd (you literally can't tell whether they are male or female) that one might wonder how any judge could place a young child with such a disturbing-looking duo.

Except the judge didn't.

The abnormal-looking couple that the Policy Council chose to illustrate this story is not the same couple granted the right to adopt the child."

It's a bullsh*t tactic, and it is totally necessary to call them on it, but there was no need to call the (presumably) unwitting couple pictured names.

From Fish to Infinity

Steven Strogatz, a professor of applied mathematics at Cornell University takes readers from the basics of math (Sesame Street!) to the baffling.
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"We can decide what we mean by things like 6 and +, but once we do, the results of equations like 6 + 6 are beyond our control."

 

via kottke

Please note

There is just something really amusing about fish (or porpoises) wearing hats.