lots going on over here, and as usual, the blog suffers … but if you think sir charles has got problems, check this out: poor little didion was super-duper uncomfortable yesterday. the best we could diagnose was a really bad episode of gas and constipation. the last time we saw him so uncomfortable and upset was when he ate jalapeno-flavored breastmilk (my bad). we finally got him calmed down last night, but the intermittent sobbing was long lasting and absolutely heart wrenching …

beyond our decidedly inexpert diagnosis, i also think we are — finally — seeing teeth in his bottom gum. just now i saw two tiny white circles. his teething episodes really have never staved, but the teeth have been slow to show. let’s hope that we have breakthrough soon. i suspect that tummy discomfort and general displeasure are more than loosely related to those damn teeth.

poor little guy.

in the meantime, our new hero, ames, has a great write up about yesterday’s ruling by the california supreme court on the legality of gay marriage. at first i thought, “crap! the timing is horrible! why couldn’t they wait until AFTER the election to bring this up!” i was sure the evangelicals would finally circle their wagons around mccain, assuming mccain adopted the same scare tactics karl rove so very much favored in 2004, but like me, ames is surprised and heartened (???) by mccain’s subdued response to the ruling.