Zoralee's 3-month Interview (+ other ramblings)

In this expression-all interview, Zoralee lets us in on her innermost feelings regarding life on planet Earth after three months. If you think Dave Letterman's interview with Joaquin Phoenix a few weeks ago was something, watch this.

A cute irony about Zor is that she sleeps the very best when there's the hum of a crowd, yet in normal everyday rooms where there are one or two people present, she'll startle in the middle of a sentence. The middle. Here are a couple things about parenting Zor.

We're discovering with increasing intensity that often mommies and daddies have different ideas of how things with the kids should be handled. Example: if I hear Zoralee waking from a nap, and there's a chance it's a premature wakeup, I'll sneak in real quiet and wind up her swing to see if maybe she'll drift off again. What Jason likes to do is run in wearing neon clothing, carrying a spot light and sounding off a foghorn. He'll ask Zor through a megaphone how she's doing. If he surmises that she is still sleepy, he'll put her back to sleep. Otherwise, wonder of wonder - she wants to get up!

This week has been by far our most successful week on the EC front. Zor has peed in the potty numerous times and even pooed three or four times. Though I was reluctant to try ECing in the middle of the night (because I'm the most tired, and it seemed like a real chore), that has been one of our better times. If she wakes up fussing and has a dry diaper, I immediately take her to the potty and give her the cue word. When Jason hears her tinkling in the pot, he comes out of his deep slumber to utter a disbelieving "Nuh-UH!" and then promptly falls back asleep. Today, he took her to the potty with success. Folks. I am not putting you on. We are as astonished by this as the next guy who lives in an industrialized country. It's freaking cool.

And to end on a sweet note - sometimes when I'm nursing Zor, especially if we're lying side by side, I feel the most comfortable I've maybe ever felt, the most fulfilled, and it seems that being a mom is the luckiest endeavor one can fall into.