Fingers and feet; Head and shoulders, knees and toes

Ariane, Nina, and Anne were all in agreement that Lenny's (I almost wrote Claire - I have called Lenny "Claire" a few times; I am so clearly unprepared for this) fingers are exceptionally long for a baby. So I was going to post this to see if anyone had thoughts.


Then my Mom called a couple nights ago and said the same thing, before I had posted this, but after I decided to write it. Granted, I have slim to none experience with babies, but I am not seeing it. They look like baby fingers to me.

What's strange is that everyone was in agreement that I have long fingers. Maybe the word "thin" was also bandied about, but I don't remember, I was too shocked to hear that anyone considered my fingers long. I always considered them short, stubby, and fat. I can't palm a basketball, and I'm 6' OK, I'm 5'11 (and a half!)" tall. I would figure that I should be able to?

So she's got my fingers, I guess. And my cheeks. And my face (poor, poor baby), although it's becoming apparent that she has Ariane's eyes. I am hoping against hope that she doesn't have my big, wide, flat feet (12EEEE).


Ariane is convinced she's got the huge gap between her big toe and second toe like I do (I can fit a billiard ball in between them and crush soda cans, it's gross, I'll admit). Apparently her toes are also long? And she seems to have crazy control over them. I can cross my right pinky toe over my fourth toe and my left fourth toe over my middle toe, and my big toe over my second toe on both feet (I think everyone can do that, at least). Maybe Lenny will have this simian ability also. I just hope she has arches in her feet.

A post about fingers and toes is all the excuse I need to embed this.




If that's not actually U2 performing, someone really nailed their sound. I probably shouldn't admit this, but one semester my junior year, Scoots, Snots, and I watched Rattle & Hum four nights a week every week. And we'd sing along. Every time. Scoots made his all time best joke, "If you were on a plane with Bono, and it were about to crash land, and there was only one parachute, would you give it to Bono?"

The correct answer was, "Of course not, you use the parachute yourself, and Bono will float to earth on a cloud, because he is an angel."

That is so pathetic... yet so true. He is an angel. And so is The Edge.

Edit: Now that I've had "Head and shoulders, knees and toes" stuck in my head all day, I must say that it is way more fun to sing it as "Head and shoulder, sneezin' toes." You know, just FYI.