Personal: Grace on the Phone; Memory; Seeing the Cubs at Wrigley

[novak]

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[friede]

Absolutely adorable (she says sleepily).

Though of course, the photos suggest a perfectly reasonable explanation for Haley's continued veto of the phone -- really, voice is only a tiny part of the overall experience of any conversation, and that goes approximately triple (quadruple? quintuple?) in RE: you.

(why yes, I do realize that logic makes me a rank hypocrite for avoiding video chat...)

[novak]

Heh. Funny logic. :-) But of course I too recognize that there has to be a certain level of abstraction there for phone conversation to make sense or seem attractive, though by everything I can tell, my nieces have been particularly shy about the whole thing.

I did forget, though, the other past exception to the previous habit of silence when, 11 months ago, Haley got on the phone momentarily to announce with great excitement and pride, "I pooped on the potty!"

[friede]

Well, clearly such a moment of import requires a break in the silence, really -- Haley's wise beyond her years.

I dunno if I'd call it particularly shy -- I mean, I still am a little weirded out by the immediacy of voice directly in my ear, on occasion.

[novak]

Whoops! My bad: I just accidentally clicked the following, looking for the other links was writing for you! (The historian's attention to detail at work....)

[daysprings]

Okay, that is seriously adorable.

[novak]

Seriously! And when I was putting that together, I did in fact think about you and Dan and all this coming up for you guys and Abi.... Too cool.

Re: Hope you're feeling better

[novak]

Heh. That would be great fun. (The meeting at Wrigley, not the lung infection.)