Maggies six month birthday

is coming up next week. She is huge bigger than a sack of rice!
and I am thankful for our good babysitter and how fat she is.
and how fat my child is.
They are both happy and fat. I guess she will continue to stay as long as she can get veggies to eat.
Yes my babysitter likes to eat veggies!

My baby is eating about 3-4 tablespoons of oatmeal or mixed cereal for lunch and breakfast mixed with formula and dinner is rice soup with bits of meat and vegetables. She can roll over and sit up tripod style. She can kinda wiggle a little but cannot crawl yet. Everything is gummed and explored orally and yes, she has one tooth on the bottom! I saw its jagged edge emerge over the last few weeks. And my happy fat baby has become a screaming awake baby at night sometimes 5-6 times a night. And I have become more grumpy at work!
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Not good but its annoying as I am very tired at times.

But I am also very happy and thankful I have been given the opportunity to have another child.
David made me wait 7 years but its been worth it. I love children. I know in Buddhism its just karma links but I love my children and feel they are so precious.
I would rather have them than have an office building or a condo or millions.
They are worth more to me.

Maggie is precious to her grandparents. My sister I hope will have children in the future but she has to find a guy first. Its not easy. And a job first also. Not easy either in this scary economy.
David adn I decided today if healthcare becomes more socialized we will go to Holland which honors the us medical licenses, and live there. Or go to England where they get paid more then I do here- 175000 and everything is covered for. Basically we could work until 5pm then just forget it. We dont have to see everyone and do everything.
Which would be great- to have more family time and less pay but more pension and you cant be sued since you work for the government. Nice. Very nice.

Or just go to wall street and find a job there. They dont seem to be suffering like doctors will at all. 30% medicare cut is going to close a lot of private practices. Well some doctors werent accepting it anyways but a lot more wont now.

On the bright side, I have lost 9 pounds since I started step1 of the south beach diet. Its amazing. I only cut out the rice as much as I can and bread and potatoes and fruit and juice except for a little. I even eat a little cake everyday. But I still lose weight. Its amazing! I think I am just very carb sensitive.
I need to pick up my labs I did at FElix Chus last weekend. Fasting of course so we'll see what happens.