B.R. 7/10/08

Evidently I did a bad job of hiding the baby's stuffed pig today, because she found it while I was at work and tore the poor thing up. That's one thing about the baby, she loves to chew a couple of holes in her stuffed animuls and then rip out their stuffing. I sometimes wonder whether she's simulating ripping out the innards as she might should she ever get the chance to eat a whole animul, or whether her interest is limited to disemboweling stuffed animuls. Luckily for the two of us, I don't think I'll ever find out the answer to that question. Anyway, since I had a meeting after work, Enn came over to babysit the little beast and so it was she who discovered the remnants of the baby's slaughter of the pig. However, because Enn was so horrified at her discovery, she left the crime scene for me to clean up so I too got a chance to see the terrible scene. Although I cleaned up the wads of stuffing, I'm sure that I'll be finding little tufts of polyfill for days to come.

Although she was a naughty baby, I nonetheless took her out for our nightly stroll -- it's not her fault that her animal instincts have been reduced to the slaughter of stuffed animuls. For a change, we headed towards the park first. I thought that since we were getting such a late start to our walk (it was already about 10:20 p.m. by the time we headed out) I should probably tire her out; and what better way than by letting her run around like cray person in the park (which she did).

We've been back for a little over an hour, and she's still going strong. I wonder if part of the reason is that she's a little hopped up on the bits of coffee she managed to lick off of the street. I know, it's horrible and disgusting, and it's something that's she's only started to do the past couple of days -- that is, find random food items that's been thrown or tossed in the street. Since she used to be so shy about everything and was so easily startled by new things, I tended to let her sniff about at will and explore the various scents we'd encounter during our walks. At first I thought that there'd be no harm in letting her sniff coffee ut now I know that I've got to keep a close eye on her because goodness knows she's not very discriminating.