Napping With Bird

Look at that big Little Bird. On weekends, we try to put Joe down at 12:30pm SHARP so that he has time to yak it up with Neeky and the gang and still fall asleep before the Bird goes down about an hour later. There have been a few Saturdays when Clara has fallen asleep while Joe is still deep in discussions with Neeky et. al. and on those Saturdays, Julie has let Clara nap it old school, tucked up on Julie's chest. Clara is getting awfully long, but you couldn't tell her that. She just keeps on snuggling in like it ain't no thing. So there have been some Saturdays when Clara napping in this manner has been required, but others where it has not been, and it happens anyway, because it's such a lovely way to spend an afternoon. Clara is up at 3pm (you can set your watch by it almost), and so the hour and a half or so between 1:30pm and 3pm is the only time during the day that there is to do anything that might be significantly impeded by the little people. Julie wouldn't have thought it would be easy to give up. Turns out, not so much.

It's funny. This is a relatively common occurrence (Clara sacked out like this on top of her mama), but we have few pictures of it because there isn't a pair of hands to snap the picture.

In other Bird news, we are sad to report that Baby Bird has a fever. 102.3! Ted is flying to Phoenix Wednesday morning so will stay home tomorrow in case Julie needs to stay home one of the other days this week. She went straight to the bird bath when we got home, and was down for the count by 6:45pm, which is her usual. We shall keep you, the Bird Brigade, informed of developments, as they develop.