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03/09/2005 Archived Entry: "yakety-yak"

And I thought Tabitha talked a lot. At least she waited until the age of babbling. Not this new one here. She does this positively amazing thing where you put her down awake and the kid actually puts herself to sleep! She doesn't stay asleep for huge amounts of time very often, but that is beside the point. Tabitha did not accomplish this little feat until she was almost 2 and I can't believe it's even possible with a one month old. But apparently it is. Anyway, we put her down when we know she's tired and then she dozes for half a minute and then slightly wakes and talks for a minute. Rinse and repeat. She just talk, talk, talks. And then she goes to sleep. This can last for 20-30 minutes which is real fun in the middle of the night when I'm next to her trying to just go to sleep. I'm learning how to tune out those sounds and just wake-up when she starts her waking up talking which is slightly different. During real awake times she's not very talkative though, not a lot of cooing or anything, so it's odd that she makes so much noise before going to sleep.

Yesterday all of us went on a field trip to the Queen Mary. I hadn't been there since I was a kid and your tour came bundled with a visit to the Spruce Goose. The Spruce Goose hangar was being used to film movies, the last one shot there was Pirates of the Carribean, but now I guess one of the cruise lines uses it as a staging area for pre-boarding. Anyway, we had a guided tour and then lunch and then we could have wandered on our own for a self guided tour if we wanted, but it had been a long day at this point so we just headed home. I'm glad we went, it was very interesting and we all had a good time.