Not Much Goin' On...
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sakon76Squiddle, as Wonderful Husband puts it, has three jobs right now: eat, sleep, and poop. But our boy is smart, and learned to multitask early on! He's not only got the eat/sleep combo down, but is the master of sleep/poop. And as of today, he's completed his next stage: eat/poop. Only one combo left, that of all three at once, and he will be the master of babydom!
When it comes down to odd physical traits, there are a number to pick from. Some people can do the Vulcan salute. Some can rapidly blink one eye then the other. Some can wiggle their ears. Myself, I can roll my tongue, among other oddities. But I can't roll my eyes back in my head. Squiddle can, which makes it disturbing sometimes when his eyes are half-lidded and all I can see is the white. Possessed!baby! :)
Otherwise, he's probably a bit ahead of schedule. He can hold his head up, is starting to do pushups though he hasn't figured out crawling yet, his eyes track (slowly) moving objects, and I think he's realized that smiles are a happy thing. He's also got spots on his cheeks (hooray, baby acne) and half the time fusses and flails when he needs to fart. Also, at just-shy-of-six-weeks, he's fitting the 0-3 month clothing a little tooperfectly. I suspect we're going to be moving him up into 3-6 months before he actually hits 3 months. When he's waking up, he frequently thrusts one fist into the air, in what we've decided to call his Baby Power salute.
We haven't watched this week's SHIELD episode yet, but I've been steadily coming up from behind on the Grimm backlog. I might be done with season one by the time season three starts airing! Three Coins in a Fuchsbau was interesting, both for getting some of Aunt Marie's backstory, as well as for the novelty of an episode with a McGuffin. I wasn't sure about having Hitler be a Wesen, though. It seemed... mm, too cliche, perhaps? Also, I wonder if maybe Wesen are even more susceptible to the coins than humans. Because Renard clearly knew about them, and so should have known better. Though, question... were there actually any Fuchsbau in the episode? Because otherwise the title pun is kind of meaningless. Wonderful Husband posited the dead jeweller/shopkeeper might have been one, which would make sense, but I don't remember any evidence that would point to such.
Plumed Serpent was an okay episode; Monroe in the bar seemed a bit out of place. I felt like he should have defended his being there with a treatise on the ancient art of fire dancing, not a "She's smoking hot." But whatever. And, hey, he finally met Juliette! Nick as the-knight-in-shining-armor was apt, but I'm left wondering if the psycho dragon-girl is slated to show up again later in the series. Because otherwise the shot of her walking away was pointless.
Island of Dreams introduced Rosalee, and hey, I'm all for Monroe having a love life! Other than that, and the nice visuals of the red tents in the Wesen drug den, though, the episode didn't make too great of an impression on me.
And, finally, The Thing With Feathers. I have to give props to the actress who portrayed Robin - she really did a good job on the birdlikeness of the character! The force-feeding was extremely disturbing. And, finally, Juliette turning down Nick's proposal... I loved how you could just see him crumple inside. Have to say, though, any proposal where the answer is not immediately forthcoming, you know what the answer is going to be.
I'm not too hot on the Adalind-and-Hank storyline, though it does make me wonder even more what Renard is up to. But it looks like it may start coming to a head in the next episode, so we'll see where it goes. Though I must say I like Wu's new diet. But then Wu is generally fun to watch.
When it comes down to odd physical traits, there are a number to pick from. Some people can do the Vulcan salute. Some can rapidly blink one eye then the other. Some can wiggle their ears. Myself, I can roll my tongue, among other oddities. But I can't roll my eyes back in my head. Squiddle can, which makes it disturbing sometimes when his eyes are half-lidded and all I can see is the white. Possessed!baby! :)
Otherwise, he's probably a bit ahead of schedule. He can hold his head up, is starting to do pushups though he hasn't figured out crawling yet, his eyes track (slowly) moving objects, and I think he's realized that smiles are a happy thing. He's also got spots on his cheeks (hooray, baby acne) and half the time fusses and flails when he needs to fart. Also, at just-shy-of-six-weeks, he's fitting the 0-3 month clothing a little tooperfectly. I suspect we're going to be moving him up into 3-6 months before he actually hits 3 months. When he's waking up, he frequently thrusts one fist into the air, in what we've decided to call his Baby Power salute.
We haven't watched this week's SHIELD episode yet, but I've been steadily coming up from behind on the Grimm backlog. I might be done with season one by the time season three starts airing! Three Coins in a Fuchsbau was interesting, both for getting some of Aunt Marie's backstory, as well as for the novelty of an episode with a McGuffin. I wasn't sure about having Hitler be a Wesen, though. It seemed... mm, too cliche, perhaps? Also, I wonder if maybe Wesen are even more susceptible to the coins than humans. Because Renard clearly knew about them, and so should have known better. Though, question... were there actually any Fuchsbau in the episode? Because otherwise the title pun is kind of meaningless. Wonderful Husband posited the dead jeweller/shopkeeper might have been one, which would make sense, but I don't remember any evidence that would point to such.
Plumed Serpent was an okay episode; Monroe in the bar seemed a bit out of place. I felt like he should have defended his being there with a treatise on the ancient art of fire dancing, not a "She's smoking hot." But whatever. And, hey, he finally met Juliette! Nick as the-knight-in-shining-armor was apt, but I'm left wondering if the psycho dragon-girl is slated to show up again later in the series. Because otherwise the shot of her walking away was pointless.
Island of Dreams introduced Rosalee, and hey, I'm all for Monroe having a love life! Other than that, and the nice visuals of the red tents in the Wesen drug den, though, the episode didn't make too great of an impression on me.
And, finally, The Thing With Feathers. I have to give props to the actress who portrayed Robin - she really did a good job on the birdlikeness of the character! The force-feeding was extremely disturbing. And, finally, Juliette turning down Nick's proposal... I loved how you could just see him crumple inside. Have to say, though, any proposal where the answer is not immediately forthcoming, you know what the answer is going to be.
I'm not too hot on the Adalind-and-Hank storyline, though it does make me wonder even more what Renard is up to. But it looks like it may start coming to a head in the next episode, so we'll see where it goes. Though I must say I like Wu's new diet. But then Wu is generally fun to watch.
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