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I opened blogger this morning with what Jeff refers to as 'a hair across my ass'. (FYI, this does not mean I have actual hair on aforementioned ass. It apparently means that I'm perturbed about something, per old men like my husband. As to whether or not I do have hair on my ass, that's for you to ponder.)

I was annoyed because I was watching the news and listening to people whine about possible tax hikes. I had a whole diatribe prepared about my thoughts on that and how this recession didn't start in just the past 60 days, and how those taxes pay for government programs I'm sure many of the whiners, or at least their friends and family utilize, like student loans, unemployment, Social Security, medical research, and even the silly war that just won't end. But I won't go into all of that. Instead, I have some fun news.

Riley is trying to crawl!!!! Yes, that's right, the kid that won't roll (I'm hoping that by the time she gets to fire safety classes in elementary school, she can roll. Otherwise, the Stop, Drop and Roll rule will be lost on her forever. She'll just stop and drop and then what? So sad, really.)

Right now she just kind of shimmies backward, and when you actually put her knees underneath her, she freezes so she doesn't lose the pose. Then she'll let her legs flop to the sides like a frog and collapse. Then she'll just lay there with her face on the floor. Not sleeping, not complaining, just lying there. Cracks me up.

We also tried the apple puffs the other day. I was torn, because her doctor said to make sure all of her food was smooth as butter (yes, her words, and no, I wasn't watching an old Mike Myers skit. It was her.), because she has a strong gag reflex. Then she said we could use the puffs. Umm, smooth as butter and chunky puffs? How does that work?

So me being Riley's royal taster, I tried these puffs myself. They don't dissolve as quickly as I think they should, so I resorted to breaking the puffs into pieces and feeding them to her. From the look on her face, she doesn't find them very tasty, but needless to say, she didn't die. So we'll continue.