Something Cute

Mike again.

One of my favorite things--especially since I'm home most mornings right now--is hearing Katie's voice floating downstairs as she sings in the shower. She rarely sings a whole song through, usually just a few passages, and it makes me stop and listen whenever I hear her.

She spent a half-hour looking on the internet for a certain bird by its call, one which sings a little bit of a descending scale in about six chirps. She couldn't find it, but the search is definitely on.

Now Katie took to Jasper very early on. When I first left for Louisiana last fall, and we'd been dating for less than three weeks, she volunteered to look after my plants and the little cat. He charmed her over in no time, of course. Now that she's pregnant, and increasingly showing (don't ask her about the doctor's comments!), the cat has become quite shy of her, and refuses to sit on her belly and chest. She's both touched and a little bit saddened by Jasper's intuition to stay off her midsection.

She has a few terms of her own for him, not the childish sounding "smibbles-little-ibbly" kind of nonsense I come out with. She calls him a dog, because he begs for attention, and food (loves Doritos. Looooooooooves Doritos--but only fresh Doritos). She also called him a chinchilla, since he makes this cute little sound, kind of part-purr, part-light mew. It's like a short purr, with notes. "P-r-r-r-r-r?" in a rising tone, is how it sounds when he approaches, asking for attention.

What it is is, Katie's getting lots of practice in at doting before the kid arrives (and the doctor warned us yesterday that the tech saying she was 70% sure on the sex of a baby, is right next to admitting she had no idea at all).

And I guess since I'm on the topic of the child, I'll mention this. Among other things, the doc said that the amount Katie eats while pregnant will help determine the size of the baby when he or she emerges. Sounds sensible enough. Neither of us were entirely sure how the nutrition and excreting mechanism works, however--to what extent the amniotic fluid, versus the umbilical cord, is the medium. So, me being me, I asked, "I wonder if unborn infants fart." Katie's answer, "If she's your daughter, she does."

Yup. Tagged me fair & square with that one.