Hello, world.  I’m sure WordPress meant to have a comma there.  Because we all know that in nouns of direct address, there is a comma after “hello.”  This is my first blog on WordPress.com and I’m writing it while Baby V is watching Baby Einstein (Baby Bach, specifically).  She is sitting in her chair without being strapped in and she actually asked to sit in it!  Hurray!  I finally programmed my kid to sit still and watch t.v.!  Success!  I’ve been waiting for this day for 13 months and it’s finally here!

I don’t know what it is about these Baby Einstein DVDs, but V is mesmerized by them.  I guess they are kind of mind-numbingly hypnotic.

Recently, during a quiet romantic moment between Odie and me, he murmured, “I love you, Julie Aigner-Clark.” I froze for a moment, thinking, “WHOM?” (because even my silent indignant exclamations are grammatically correct), and then I realized he was praising the creator of the DVD that our baby was obediently watching in the other room while we, er, congressed.  Indeed.  Her creation is a blessing.