Brisk

Today started with a brisk hike up the trail to get the dogs walked before 7 AM. I am loving the early morning dog walk. If only Night Megan could remember how much Morning Megan and Afternoon Megan enjoy starting the day with a walk and getting it out of the way. Then maybe Night Megan might not screw over Morning Megan so often by staying up and watching TV or playing Scrabulous.

The photography session yesterday went well. I think we got a few good shots of Avery. Hopefully we have some cute ones of her sitting alone by some water such that you can see her reflection in the water. When we started the session, the photographer asked me to take off my shoes and socks. Outdoors. And then to stick my feet in very cold water and mud. Clearly, she didn't know my issues with getting my feet dirty. But, I just sucked it up and did it without complaint, all the while reminding myself that since we have Avery, we always have wipes. Whew.

This morning I went to an introductory session at a local Montessori school. It was very interesting. I find most of it clicks well with me, though some of it is a bit hippy dippy feeling to me. The one thing that really clicked with me was the philosophy of presenting the big picture first, then focusing in on details. My college classes, particularly the CIS courses, frustrated me to no end because the professors would just walk in and start talking about random little details instead of starting with the big picture. It just makes so much more sense to give big picture followed by details. So that was a huge for me. We have Avery on the waiting list for the toddler program there, which starts accepting at 18 months, but that is mostly to be proactive. I still need to visit some other schools and different types of preschools.

And now, time for the consumerism part of my blog. I bought the Beaba Babycook in anticipation of Avery starting solids in 18 days. Can you tell I'm excited? Yes, I know that I could have done without the Babycook, but darn it, I wanted it! So I ordered one. All the reviews from Europeans said it was a must have. My logic is that the average European kitchen is fairly small, therefore they don't tend to buy loads of kitchen appliances. If this is a must have, then surely it's useful!

We also finally bit the bullet and bought an HD TiVo. D did try to suggest we could go with the Comcast HD DVR. My response, "But my blog is called Casa de TiVo! I can't have just a DVR. Blech!" RG, who sadly has but a mere DVR*, said I should be happy I went with the TiVo since the interface on a DVR is no where near as good as a TiVo, particularly for someone like me who is used to TiVo. When it arrives, we'll switch to Comcast for our cable provider and be rid of DirecTV for good! The best part of all this is we get the noisy, noisy DirecTV TiVo out of our bedroom. This thing is so loud that I absolutely must have the doors shut on the armoire to sleep and even then I can still hear it.

* I'm being sarcastic here. I don't actually pity those with a mere DVR despite any language that might indicate otherwise (like the word "mere"), nor do I think those with a mere DVR are pining for a TiVo. :)