The Plot Bunny Farm

CG awake at midnight. Did manage to get her to sleep at 1, which is an improvement. Up at 7 to get her off to daycare -- got her zipped into her jacket, and she threw up at me, lovely projectile stuff, but not too much, fortunately. Easy to clean up. We went back to bed for a few hours, and she awoke feeling much better and rather put out that I made her eat Jell-O instead of the cereal her brother was getting.

She amused herself later by dumping out bookcases in my office.

So, being as she was better, we kept the double appointment for the kids' dental. T-Bug has 3 cavities, plus the dentist wants to extract 2 of the teeth to let the back ones come into position better. And the dentist says that CG is a little tongue-tied -- her frenulum linguae is on the short side, which may affect her speech development. So if it seems to be an issue, we may have to see about that.

Oh, and I got a 1-day rejection from Neil Clarke on "Free of Fire." Because, you know, it wasn't Monday enough.

Meh. I think I'm going to get the boy to bed, watch Chuck with my husband, and go get some sleep.

There were some cute April Fool's things (like Squidpunk!), but the best thing is serious, touching, and completely topical for me.

Not Now, Sweetie, Daddy's Worldbuilding by Tim Pratt

And in a somewhat related bit . . . I'm thinking of trying to pick up at least smatterings of another language via podcasts. Clearly, Rowena's just hearing (currently) English and gibberish phonemes. Will it slow her language acquisition much (or at all) to be exposed to such a podcast? Does that depend on how similar the languages are? I mean, is it going to make a difference whether I choose Russian or German or Italian or Japanese or Thai? (iTunes doesn't appear to have Finnish, which would also be very cool.)