Silicon Valley Baby

Some things of note:

On Saturday, we went to San Jose Japantown to purchase a doll display for Girl's Day. Not finding anything we liked (or could afford), we ended up buying a pretty nice one at the crockery store inside the local Japanese supermarket.

This is it. (Click on the picture to see it bigger.)

(nb: the pug floating in the background is a magnet on our fridge, and not part of the display...)

In other news, SiliBaby seems to have entered a new behavioral phase in the last couple of days. She's been crying more lustily than ever, and somehow sounds as if she's crying because she genuinely has something to cry over. Supporting this hypothesis is the fact that I saw her cry tears for the first time yesterday. I'd never even really thought about it, but most, if not all, of her crying up until now has been more screaming than crying, per se. (FWIW, SiliMommy claims to have seen tears before.)

On a separate topic: our angelic dog seems to be tarnishing his halo lately. SiliPug is possibly getting rebellious.

As his day ends, with the conclusion of his nighttime walk, I command him: "Bedtime!" Or I don't even need to say that; I just point, and he scampers into his crate.

Now, he's stopped cooperating. Instead, he darts under SiliBaby's cosleeper (a bassinet attached to the bed), and then crawls under the bed. He's also increasingly assertive about wanting to decide the course of our walks.

Perhaps this is all coincidence, not conspiracy. But the owner of our step-pug tells us that their pug's rebellion started when their own baby reached about 6 weeks (and the dog got it through its thick, puggy skull that the baby wasn't going anywhere--it was there to stay).