Forever Young...

We lost the instruction manual for Dot, so we will be free wheeling it for the next 18 years or more. Figure we've done it twice, how hard can it be to do it a third time. We remember the basics commands... No.. No .. Because I said No... Believe we need to feed and change her, wake her and parade her in front of the throngs that come to wonder at her shrine call the crib. For the near future we will go on instinct and feed, change and dry tears.. oh yea.. and buy clothes.. lots of clothes. When mobility hits, we will revert back to basics.. No... No.. because we said No...

Dot is officially a used baby now.. Toots gave her a sponge bath and washed that new baby smell off. She now smells like baby lotion... so she smells good but now she is this tiny little bundle that keeps slipping out of my hands... ( joking)... I haven't dropped her yet.. I have successfully with a little help from Toots changed a diaper... Like riding a bike... yon never forget.. just a little wobbly on the first attempt.

Dot is doing great, she is sleeping and eating and eliminating as only the most perfect baby can. I am sure if the nurses in the hospital saw her now, they would agree she is still excelling past her peers. We are truly blessed with wonderful kiddos... Big Sis is always right there ready to hold... Little Guy seems to have gotten over the shock of being the boy between the two girls... He told me yesterday it OK... I am now just like my cousin... he has two sisters and he seems OK... Toots is doing great... looking great and starting to act like her old self again. She has marshaled the troops back to normality while continuing her Martha Stewart like touches on the homestead.

Haven't mention the counter... A year is a long time on paper but a mere blink of an eye in it's impact to change us. I always thought getting old meant aches and pains, slowing down slightly year after year... but the reality is getting old is more a mindset... Getting old is more about being set in your ways... having a routine that is hard to break or at best disruptive when not followed. All in all it is about managing the "different" things that come our way. Where am I going with this ramble... I was in the car today, listening to my fixed XM radio station and realized that old is when your favorite music is by an artist that is either dead or hasn't put out anything worth while in 25 years... Old is having a hard time listening to the top 20 music of Big Sis... not because it is bad... ( OK it isn't Stairway to Heaven or Born to Run) but because it is different. Big Sis gave me a pass, after I told her my feelings... she reminded me... She has to tell me to stop singing her music.. cause its a little creepy.... She told me I have a better voice for Bruce than Brittney... Can I get a.... Poker Face... There is a lot of truth to kids keeping you young! The way I see it... I won't get old before my time and with Dot just starting down the road... I have another 10 -15 years of top 20 music...

May your hands always be busy,

May your feet always be swift,
May you have a strong foundation
When the winds of changes shift.
May your heart always be joyful,
May your song always be sung,
May you stay forever young

I know... quoting an artist that thankfully is still alive and hasn't put anything out in 25 years...

Hope the every other day postings are fun... that I am not being to monotonous and that you stick around for the ride until I am done... or reach a point when my musing only make sense to me. keep those cards and letters coming in...

Good night and be good.