If that mockingbird don't sing...

...It means he has a girlfriend.

In the last couple of months so many people we know are trying to get pregnant. Seemingly all of a sudden anyone who wasn't married has become engaged or hitched and now they are all banging on the conception door. Perhaps that point after reaching 35 but someplace before you turn 40 bells start going off.... when we visit the fertility clinic its now more likely we will run into friends also attempting to get knocked up. It's not a race against one another, but a race against our own aging bodies. As if I just looked at the calendar for the first time in years and realized "Oh shit, I forgot to have a baby. How did we get this old?" Oy Vey.

Cristina ran into yet another friend in the process at Columbia this morning. Nice for her to see a friendly face. There is a baby boom a happening with the LGBT couples in our age group. Ask anyone in NYC they are bound to know a non-traditional family... New Normal... Etc. Makes me feel like whatever child comes into our lives they will be surrounded with a similar community of peers! Which of course we are embracing whole heartedly.

So the follicles aren't cooperating right now. Slow to grow. Dose of clomid is increased this round.

We had the chance to facetime with my brother and our 9 month old Nephew Henry today. Damn is he cute. We have 3 Nephews. My Brother said if we manage to have a girl, our Mother will make it rain hairbows on us. She has no granddaughter. The floodgates will open for all sorts of girlie gear. I said what if we have a boy who is gender fluid? He said bring it on.

In other news... It is SPRING around here. You think that humans controls nature in this crazy concrete city? Here we have proof of a very lively wildlife community in prospect/crown heights. There is a squirrel mom and baby living in our urban garden (ahem, planters on our fire escape). They are kinda cute to watch. The mom carries the baby around in her mouth and nurses a lot. She is very protective and will not leave the baby much except to run to the tree branch right nearby the fire escape.

A Short Video of Mama & Baby

At least we provide a good home to wild squirrels with our urban garden.

Also this is our 3rd June in our apartment. Each June so far a mockingbird comes to stay in the tree in front of our apartment building. The bird's song erratic is someplace between a car alarm and a fun cacophonous melody. If you never have heard what they sound like you can listen here. They say "Unmated males are the most insistent singers, carrying on late all day and late into the night." This dude is looking for a lady for sure! Every creature wants the same thing after all.