Astound(ingly bad): Addendum

Still no internet.

After multiple calls over two days, we finally get a technician to come out to our house on Thursday when someone on the phone admits that it's not just a local outage and that even though there is an outage, I shouldn't be affected by it at all. The technician checks the line and replaces the modem, tells us that the modem still needs to be reprovisioned but it should be up later that day. Well, it is not up later that day, it was not up when I woke up this morning, and when I called in again this morning I'm told that the technician screwed up the modem installation and that there's nothing they can do but schedule another technician visit to fix it.

I'm not letting that technician leave my house until we have a stable internet connection.

Edit: I used the classic weapon of modern capitalism--ing customer service publicly--and the person who got back to me fixed my internet in about five minutes. Could that have been as easily fixed at any time? Who knows!

🎂 ONE 🎂 YEAR 🎂 baby update!

This is just a short update since Laila has a birthday party tomorrow and I'll post more about that after Shabbat, but Laila turns one year old today!

Here's a slightly-blurry photo of Laila's summer ensemble:

It's hard to get a clear picture of a one-year-old.

Laila has mastered the baby fall, and while she initially would hold on to something with one hand and sloooooooowly lower herself down to the floor until she could touch it with her other hand before letting go, now she just squats a bit and lets go before falling on her bum and then speeding off to her next destination. She's not walking yet, but she took another step toward it--a lot of the time when she's crawling she'll lift off her knees onto her hands and feet and scuttle across the floor. Mostly into places she's not supposed to be.

She's still drinking some formula--sashagee stopped breastfeeding because Laila now has upper teeth as well as lower teeth and she bit sashagee multiple times--but she mostly eats solid foods now. If we need a snack for her, we can just give her some of our food as long as it's not too salty or sugary. I just fed her a tiny bit of homemade tsukemono earlier and she loved them. Definitely a baby with worldly tastes.

She knows what "mama" and "abba" mean, and occasionally says them to us, but hasn't progressed to using them to get our attention when we're not in view. Right now she's crawling all around and babbling up a storm.

Further updates after her party!!