fox | checking in

Been here 25 hours approx. Babies still unanimously cute, although the three-year-old is, well, three, and therefore (you will be surprised to learn) willful. We are still bigger and stronger, though, so when the chips are really down, the grown-ups will win. The 20-month-old is awfully sweet-tempered, despite having a tummy bug of some kind, poor thing. The 14-month-old is fascinated by being in a different house with all these different toys. The two-week-old is frequently hungry; when his sisters were that age, you could stick a pacifier or a fingertip in their mouths and let them suck on that for a while, and thus buy their mother a little more time, but this kid is seldom fooled for more than about four seconds. Tonight, though, a breakthrough - he slept in my arms (where babies go to fall asleep, after all) for two solid hours and in the swing and then the bassinet for four more hours after that. My poor friend might actually get to sleep in her bed tonight.

I'll be trying to get pictures tomorrow. Meantime, I check in to say hi, and I learn that the Supreme Court of the state of Iowa (Iowa!) has unanimously (unanimously!) insisted on equal marriage rights. There's a lot of Field of Dreams stuff in my head, but it's all trite, so I'll spare you; nevertheless, you go on ahead, Iowa. Others of us from the heartland are proud and a little envious. [applause]