March 24th, 2004

As I told Kurt this past weekend, the first thing I want to do after I’ve had this baby is to get a gigantic Sausage and Cheese Plate from Red, Hot and Blue. Takeout. Mmmmmmmmmmmm.

While I’m on the subject of food, I’d just like to say that I’ve been reading in a number of sources that what you eat during pregnancy affects your child’s tastebuds in early life. If this is true, here is my predicted list of the foods my baby will like because I have been eating quite a lot of them:

• Cereal (mostly raisin bran) and milk
  
• Chocolate (duh!)
  
• Pancakes
  
• Apple Cinnamon Muffins
  
• Edamame
  
• Miso Soup
  
• Chicken Pot Pie
  
• Naan
  
• Cinnamon Raisin Bread
  
• Peanut Butter on Nilla Wafers
  
• Tangerines, Oranges and all things citrusy
  
• Popcorn
  
• Quesadillas
  
• Rice
  
• Pasta
  

I’m giving some creedence to what I’ve been reading in this regard because when I was pregnant with Sophia I went to Argentina and ate tons and tons of meat, and I have never seen such a carnivorous child as she. She’ll eat any kind of meat except bacon, and including game. She likes duck, goose, venison, ham, pork chops, pork loin, ground beef, steak, chicken, turkey. She’s basically never met a piece of dead animal tissue she didn’t like, unless it was for reasons of sauce or spice.

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I’m working on a couple of longish posts, but they languish and progress on them is intermittent. Things are well. My feet hurt a lot, most of the time. Some people have expressed concern over my declaration on Sophia’s Webpage that I’m going to have all her hair cut off. Yes, it’s true, the next time I take her for a haircut to Ms. Lynn (“Ms. Lynn gives me a purple sucker!”) I’m going to have as much of her hair cut off as I can without making her look too much like a boy. She refuses to ever have it pulled back or tied back, it’s constantly in her way and I’m tired of trying to get paint, maple syrup, leaves, knots of unidentified goo and so forth out of it. Yes, her hair is fine and lovely and a good length. No, I cannot manage it right now. Have some faith, though, Lynn is excellent at her job and will doubtless make her look cute as a button. Possibly even cuter than a button. There is so much left to do before the baby arrives, so little time. We haven’t decided on names yet, though Kurt suggested something fairly promising this morning. Allergy season is starting up. When I was pregnant with Sophia at this time of year I ultimately had to resort to taking Claritin, which I remember feeling uneasy and unsure about it, though my ob-gyn assured me it would be ok. I don’t know whether I’ll be able to hold out this time or not. Short staccato notes that are completely unrelated to one another. All I have time for at the moment, but possibly serving to prove that I am still alive and kicking (or being kicked, is this baby ever active!).

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