May 23, 2004
We had quite the active weekend - Lily should be sleeping well tonight. Physically she is making huge leaps and bounds - learning to crawl up things by using her feet as suction cups (or her rendition of a suction cup), learning to slide, climbing everything (including our bookshelves, legs, and any furniture she can heel-hook), and running as fast as she can. It gives me a heart attack, but the worst that can happen is a skinned knee I suppose.
Saturday we ordered all the new baby furniture we will need for Number Two. We got a crib, a dresser, and a changing table that converts to a dresser later in life. We also ordered a crib guard for Lily - because soon she will be ready for us to convert her crib into a toddler bed. The thought of her being free to leave her bed at will is a little frightening! We took her to the mall and let her play and run around like a maniac. She was so tired after playing all morning that she fell asleep in the car. I can tell you, the last time she fell asleep in the car, she was about 3 months old. My child DOES NOT sleep in the car.
Today we took her to Deep Run Park, where we played on the teeter totter, slides, swings, and learned to walk across a suspended “bridge” (it’s only 2 inches off the ground). After lunch and a nap we went out for a walk. Soon it will be bathtime and bedtime - and both Mike and I need that almost as much as she does.
I do have one non-Lily related note - I must tell it on the mountaintops for XM Satellite Radio. Okay, I accept that we live in one of the worst cities for radio. For a place as big as Richmond, we must have the WORST radio stations. I think even Raleigh had us beat, and Raleigh was about as white-bread as it gets. Finally after a year of watching most of the radio stations either fail or be taken over by some huge conglomerate where the playlists are prepared in some factory somewhere, I gave in and bought Mike (maybe US would be more appropriate in this case) the equipment for XM. Not only did I have it installed in his car, but I bought another set of equipment for my car, which he uses on trips. Now whenever he takes my car, he can just take the unit out of his car and drop it into mine. We were both enthralled with it - no commercials, no people screaming about furniture and car sales . . . no Britney Spears (unless you want that, of course), no annoying morning talk shows. In addition to the best programming I’ve heard since my days in college radio, they have non-stop CNN, ESPN, Weather Channel, and for those of you who desire nastiness, an additional $2.99 per month fee for the Playboy Radio Channel (which, I must tell you, we did NOT subscribe to). I almost can’t wait to get into the car just to listen to it. I’m sure it’s like any new relationship - the honeymoon will end at some point - but hey, for $9.99 a month, not having to listen to crappy Richmond radio anymore feels like it’s FOREVER.
