Kokochi

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Working hard!

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Getting close to crawling...

At the same time, she still has a ways to to figure out that crawling is a possibility. Lots of coorination needed! Not sure what her twisting of the head at the end is all about.

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She loves my kitties

The cats still don't care for Tesla but she can't wait to be friends...

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Webbery.com

Remember when Patrick came by the other day? Here are the pictures! p.s. I give up. I cannot blog about much else than Tesla. I do plan to post something about my kitties someday, as I love them dearly even though they've been relegated to such a different position now. And Dav and I do other stuff for sure, but I find myself not documenting it as before. I do want to note that yesterday, Dav and I went to an intimacy workshop that a friend organized. Lots of discussion about little and big things we can do for our relationship, and specific instructions about pleasing each other. Well, actually, it was heavily focused on pleasing the woman (in the relationship at large; not just bedroom) because apparently if the woman is completely happy, all else will fall into place. I won't argue with that! But I was very happy Dav proposed we attend this. Tesla was with her nanny, so we had the entire day to focus just on each other. One exercise was listing all the things we were grateful for. I was very touched at what Dav said. In addition to big things, he mentioned little things too like the cheese snacks I bring him when he's working. I do that cuz I think of him and it makes me happy to do something for him. But to know he enjoys that and appreciates it makes all the difference. We're not into Valentine mumbo jumbo, and upcoming Valentine's Day is as good as any other day, but I highly recommend taking a moment to tell your loved ones how much they mean to you. Sheesh. That workshop made me all touchy feely, didn't it?

watching her back

There is just something entirely cute about watching Tesla with her back to me. I can see her in her very own world, occupied by whatever is in front of her, in her own thoughts. With diaper, you see her sides busting over. Naked, I just love her no-waist-back, and butt crack peeking out. Here is her in the bath [from Kokochiino]

Bath time. We both love naked time.

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Woohoo!

I love this year's theme. Never got into themes in the past but we all should this year.

I'm out!

Girls' night out.

Strange hair

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It's hard to see, but I've got these very short tufts of hair at my hairline.They look like chopped off bangs. I've never had such hair before, and all I can think of is that the hair that I lost after pregnancy is finally growing back. With pregnancy hormones, your hair is supposed to be all luscious and full during pregnancy, and once the hormones go away, you lose a lot of hair all at once.Gradually you gain your equilibrium back. In my mind, I didn't experience the luscious hair part, but I sure lost lots of hair everyday around when Tesla was 4 months old. I thought I'd go bald. The hair loss has tapered off finally. And now I discover these short weird hair strands.

Let's talk poop

At some point, it is bound to happen when you have a baby. You know, talk about poop. I don't make it a regular topic, but bodily functions take on a different meaning with a babe ; ) And now, I'm really proud of our girl because she poops every morning dutifully in the toilet. Let me explain. When Tes was born, friends of ours introduced us to Elimination Communication. At first we thought it impossible. But low and behold, after just a few attempts, tiny Tesla peed/pooed when held over a bucket - if we caught it at the right time. Mind you, Dav and I never went hard-core. Tesla always wears diapers. I rapidly realized that there was just no way I was going to get Tesla over a bucket every 20 minutes to consistently catch her pee. I always had a ton of errands and I wasn't keen on the idea of bringing a bucket around with me to do EC in public either. Over time, I settled into a routine of putting her over the toilet every morning. And when I'm not working, I'll do it several times a day, say after feeding her or when she wakes from a nap. I don't stress if she goes or not - and we certainly use enough diapers like any other baby. But for a few months now, she has been going poo every morning in the toilet. This is huge for me. It takes a lot of effort to get up even if I don't want to, take her diaper off, carry and hold her over the toilet, etc. But now I realize she gets it. She holds it until that moment, and it's of course super nice not to have to clean a poopee diaper. This is much cleaner. She might still poop during the day, but the mornings are the big ones. And what's cool [start gross mommy talk] is that I can see her poop. It's not one gigantic mess in her diaper. I can see it coming out and notice the consistency, color, etc. which, eh hem, is important in knowing how Tesla is doing [/end gross mommy talk]. And although we're not doing EC to the point where I intuitively know she needs to go, or to the point where she's diaper free, I do think that this morning ritual is building a habit in her head...hopefully she's learning it's way better to go in the potty than the diaper. And maybe this will guide her to be potty-trained earlier than otherwise. We'll see. Bottom line is that it's just cool. I had never known babies can do this. Also to note is this parenting blog I enjoy: The Poop.