The Trixie Update

Trixie is going apeshit bonkers. She and I have been on our own for the last 36 hours because Jenn is at a 2-day conference. It’s terrible. Six o’clock rolls around and there’s no hand-off. I don’t know who’s been crying and screaming more, Trixie or me.

Jenn is coming home tomorrow, but not until late, so there’s one more full day to go. In the meantime, Trixie has been tramping around the apartment in a weepy mess, there are Cheerios everywhere and I’m still discovering the sticky range of this afternoon’s applesauce bomb.

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I’m excited to let our readers know that the Trixie Update is featured in an awesome, in-depth piece by Jonathan B. Cox in today’s News & Observer, my hometown paper, with some great photography by Mel Nathanson. Here’s the article.

As the subject, I’m biased, but I have to say I am floored by the scope of the piece, the narrative he created, and the detail that went into it. The accompanying timeline is a particularly interesting idea to me personally, namely because I have never looked at the past nine months is such a consolidated form — it’s all been a blur. And for those of you who live down here, don’t miss the actual paper version. It’s an above-the-fold story (in the Connect section)!

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I gradually stopped warming up Trixie’s bottle many months ago. Pretty soon she came to expect her milk straight out of the fridge. Now that it’s summertime here, she likes the ice-cold bottle even more. So much so that sometimes she won’t drink if it warms up too much. (We occasionally have to add ice cubes to her bottle.) How about the rest of you? How do you serve it up? Go vote in the latest Trixie poll (to your left under ‘Latest TTU Comments’.)

 
include_once "/home/trixie3/public_html/poll/booth.php";
$php_poll->set_template_set(”plain”);
$php_poll->set_max_bar_length(125);
$php_poll->set_max_bar_height(10);
echo $php_poll->poll_process(15);
?>

 

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In order to consolidate the questions and answers that are spread throughout the site, we’ve added a frequently asked questions section. Please ask your questions here and we’ll try to find an answer. Thanks!
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There’s no shortage of articles or advice about how to baby-proof your house. But if you follow the advice, you have to put all your stuff away and install a bewildering array of little, white plastic locks, latches, hooks and fixtures all over your house. Before you know it, you can’t get the toilet lid open in the middle of the night or find an extension cord when you need one. To be honest, this is really a lot of work and pretty inconvenient. It also takes a lot of top-down management. Why not flip it around and get Trixie working for us?

We’ve decided to take an evolutionary approach to baby-proofing: baby-proofing by means of natural selection. The best part is that it there’s no laborious set-up involved — we just let Trixie go crazy in the apartment. When she’s done, sweep up the mess. By definition, whatever is left unbroken is now considered baby-proof.

Unfortunately, the limping gazelle of our household turned out to be the table lamp with glass shade. Poor Lampy. We’ll never forget. Good times. Good times.

How did this really happen? The lamp was secured from a floor attack, but Trixie climbed on top of the couch and pushed it off. It took me two hours to clean the pulverized glass off of and out of everything. She thought it was the funniest thing in the world.

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