saturday

My kiddo just continues to surprise me. Tristan, a devout co-sleeper for his first 30 months and who has been sleeping on a twin bed in our room since a bit before Ellie's birth, decided last night, on his own and out of the blue, that he wanted to sleep on the bed in our other bedroom. And he did; he was there all night long, until around 9 this morning when I heard "Mama?" Attachment Parenting makes comfortably independent kids after all.

An incredibly symbolic bit of news: just a few days before the Senate failed to block the Bush Admin's impotent power plant emission policy, a bald eagle was found with severe mercury poisoning. Power plants with uncontrolled emissions pose a huge danger to our environment and our children, but apparently the Administration and Senate are just more concerned about the profit of their big business buddies.