So I never expected how freaking difficult it would be to call folks in California on the phone once baby arrived. I've been wanting to call Avram for days now, and I keep getting stymied. Here's how it goes:

8:00: Wake up, feed baby. Baby is happy, but it's five a.m. California time.

9:30-11:00 a.m.: Baby is napping. Great opportunity to make a phone call, but at the latest it's 8:00 a.m., and that's too early for Avram. And most people who don't have babies.

11:00-1:30: Baby is awake and demanding my full attention like the little field marshal general he is.

1:30-4:00: Baby is napping. Call Avram! His line is busy.

And from 4:00 on it's all cocked up, because we need to eat dinner and feed baby every 20 minutes and then there's the hour that we try to put baby to bed and invariably fail at that so Monstro has to take baby for a drive in the car and by the time Monstro and sleeping!baby are back home, we're exhausted and too scared to wake baby to talk to each other, let alone make a phone call.

So, sorry Avram. We'll try again tomorrow.