The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov 📚 This was a childhood favorite of mine, I hadn’t revisited in probably 25 or 30 years but I still remembered the mystery! It holds up better than I expected. Asimov gets a bad rap for his character writing, and certainly they serve the plot more than the other way around, but now that I’m not literally a child I am surprised to find I relate to Asimov characters a lot more, since many of them are motivated by things like maintaining their workplace reputation or getting new stuff for their apartment or hating their colleagues or whatever.

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Artie has been pulling to stand since a very early age, and in fact would do it repeatedly, like he was trying to do squats! He's strong, for a baby, and we often have the unsettling sensation that he's deliberately trying to get stronger. I try not to speculate and maybe inadvertently put the kids into a box, but between this and his fascination with balls it's hard not to see sports in his future.

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My husband took Dede for a weekend away when I was still pregnant with Artie, or maybe he had just been born, which seems like a big difference but honestly it’s all kind of a blur to me. Ever since she’s been asking nonstop if she and Dada can go back to the “footmountains” together — Mama and baby not exactly welcome but not expressly forbidden either. Lex initially planned a trip for them both but I muscled my way in because Christmastime with two kids is short and the number of Christmas experiences I was able to put together was even shorter.

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