henry - the (mis)adventures of jenna

Henry died last night. I am not intending to make a big post about What Happened, because I don’t really feel like reliving it, so that’s really all I’m going to say about it. Unfortunately, what was a fantastic birthday had a really horrible ending, but I am thankful I can separate the two events in my memory. Anyway, some very good friends came over and helped us bury our buddy before we went to bed and then it was IM-POSS-I-BLE to fall asleep. We finally dozed off about midnight, but every hour and a half or so one of us would wake up and then of course the other would too. (Does this happen to anyone else? Wake up the moment your spouse’s eyes pop open? We’ve been doing that for about 3 years now and it totally creeps me out.)

And to make matters worse, Analie woke up an hour early again this morning. So we’ve been dragging around like zombies AND my eyes are still swollen twice their normal size so it’s super hard to see. As in, I may actually wear my glasses today.

Anyway, neither of us really felt like doing much awesome parenting this morning. Joey let me lay in bed for awhile and he got up with Analie first, and when I finally wandered out he had his favorite movie on (Bourne Ultimatum) and he and Analie were contentedly watching it. Well, she was beating the brains out of her spinning bird and he was watching the movie.

After we fed her solids, she was having so much fun beating her high chair tray that I decided to give her a bit of prunes to smear around. Because it was easy and she could play with it without much energy expended on my part. She’d been up for almost 2 hours, and by this point of the morning we usually use Henry as our entertainment because the more tired she was the more HILARIOUS she found him.

The prunes will have to suffice going forward, I guess. She liked them OK too, although she was pretty intense about it, and I’m pretty sure playing with your food is supposed to be fun.