Baby Chronicles: Mind Over Matter, Revisited

Nette called last night to check on things and chat. She asked how the mind over matter mantra was coming along and I explained that every day, every hour, and every second, I practice the mind over matter mantra. For the most part, it works well but there are those occasions where my innate weakness gets the best of me and I must visit the toilet bowl (Tika: 4,873 choke backs; Leechie: 4 pukes to date) or lie down for a nap. I am happy to report that these incidences are becoming less frequent though. Yippeeee!

Nette says that one of the girls in her office commented that "It IS mind over matter... it's just not [a pregnant woman's] mind that matters!" This is so true. Ironic that even at such a young age, the little squid is already making all the rules. Nan says that we should just go ahead and give up the fight since we're going to lose anyway... we might as well forfeit and save our energy. I think it's true. Even without a set of lungs, leechie is letting it be known that he/she now wears the pants in this family! And, I'm OK with that... I'm too tired to be the boss anyway. ;-p