Baby and Books

Feliz Sunday my little lovelies! I am chilling at home with my hubby and littlest of lovelies this morning and then this afternoon one of my friends is coming over to meet Madison. While I've been rather unbusy this past week and a half, Miss Madison Paige has been the social event of the season:

She is quite the center of attention as you can see. With talents like this, though, who can blame anyone from being fascinated:

Her giant feet are something of a joke around these parts, and then we discovered she can grip fingers with those elongated metatarsals. And then there's the fact that she can bust out Lady Gaga's Poker Face move which is pretty cool:

 I do worry that this sort of hovering attention may spoil her a bit too much though:

Grandma and Great-Grandma may be a bit too attentive. But she seems to take it all in stride, like its her due, and then she chillaxes with daddy, watching some tv, after her performances:

 Sooner or later, the inevitable happens and it's off to dreamland.

Ah, the joys of being a baby....

As for books, those are pretty wrapped up with baby right now, but maybe not in the way most would expect. I am currently reading The Wild Irish Girl, a 19th century, epistolary, Irish novel by Sydney Owenson, The Magicians, a contemporary fantasy novel by Lev Grossman, and The Giver, a YA speculative fiction novel by Lois Lowry. Since my reading time has been encroached upon by one Madison Paige, I've found a way to modify the way I read. Now, when she starts being a super fussbucket, begging to be held, I pick her up and read whichever book I pick up out loud to her. It does have me wondering if her first words will end up being something like monochronicity or maybe she'll sound like the intelligentsia from the 19th century.... Whatever. Mommy gets to read. :)

I've recently finished Ready Player One by Ernest Cline and Among Others by Jo Walton, but those reviews won't be out until after the Independent Literary Awards are over. Both books made the short list for the Speculative Fiction category of which I am the director. I still have to read The Magician King by Lev Grossman and 11/22/1963 by Stephen King. The fifth book, Neil Gaiman's A Monster Calls, I have already read. After reading three of the short listed books and reading the first book in Lev Grossman's series, I can honestly say that this is going to be a seriously tough decision. I have really, really enjoyed the books I've read so far and they are so unique and different from each other that comparing them is going to be crazy hard.


Before I run off to check on Miss Madison, I want to send a HUGE THANK YOU to Trish for the giant box of formula she sent me and to Care for the awesome card which was so wonderfully old school I was immediately infatuated.

And Trish, I'm getting a little concerned that our daughters are like twins born to different mothers a year apart. Or maybe they are like dopplegangers or something....

Elle at One Month

Madison at One Week

This could be the proof I need that babies look like babies.....

Well then, that's my story right now. I have been horribly remiss on commenting this past week. If it was just baby and I, maybe, but relatives and friends have been over every day since she escaped from the womb.