Now with karate chop action!

New this year, we present our 2008 version of Baby.

We know that before our models have surpassed even our expectations in cuteness, cleverness, and just general "thingness" (quote: Birdie Wooster), but this year we have a very exciting new technology to offer.

We've given you the Scream of Piercing (we just don't understand the level of negative feedback we've gotten for this amazing, superlative feature), Projectile Vomiting, Gaze of Paralyzing Cuteness, Bottomless Questioning, and Wardrobe Concocting Fantastique, but prepare to be amazed at our latest, most innovative offering.

Glow in the Dark Baby!!

For those midnight feedings when a harsh lamp is just too much and you know that with all you've had to deal with the day before the floor is certain to be cluttered with Dubiously Benign Objects, Glow in the Dark Baby provides a gentle, soothing glow sure to relax all your cares away, leaving you free to enjoy your tiny one for the fifth time that night.

The above is a bilirubin light. Her first pediatric appt revealed that she's lost a lot of weight and that she has some jaundice. A quick trip to the hospital for a blood draw revealed her need to be on a light machine for a little while, which necessitates daily blood draws and every other day weigh ins. Poor little dear is so sleepy she can barely eat every few hours, so we're pumping and feeding her as much as she can handle while she serenely glows her way through the day.

Other than that nothing cool is happening. Just the normal kid moments.

Oma is here to visit and is getting used to explaining things to Tag, who is recently very fascinated by aliens.

O: But aliens aren't big scary monsters. They're just people who don't live where you live. So, angels are aliens, Jesus is an alien, I'm and alien.

T: So Jesus turns into a big scary monster!?!

O: No, remember I'm an alien, too, since I'm just visiting and I don't live here. Did I turn into a big scary monster?

How am I going to explain this to his Sunday School teacher?