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Handling the Problem

Apparently, I got a new version of the Uxtheme.dll in a download from Microsoft. If you give the new version a NULL handle, it GPFs. Since the Stingray libraries were perfectly willing to give it a NULL handle, hilarity ensued.

I've now patched the libraries and sent in a bug report.

On the home front, Katie has decided that the very best place in the world for her to spend a quiet night is on top of

daisy_knotwise. This is good for me, good for her, maybe not so good for Gretchen's back...

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nrivkis's brain.
Her JJ did the same thing when he first came home.

One of the hardest things in life is teaching little babies that (sing it) "You can't always get what you want." :-)

I glowingly recommend Harvey Karp's "The Happiest Baby on the Block".

It's about the "fourth trimester" and the extreme neurological immaturity of the human infant in the early weeks.

Frankly I'd suggest ignoring all the books as much as possible. Collectively they should all be called "What to be Paranoid about when you're not Paranoid enough." Seriously, every book tells you something different, and no matter which book you read... you're doing something "Wrong." You're smart, intelligent, if tired, people, go with your gut and what you can make work. Failing that rely on your various and sundry medical professionals. At least for us we've found our pediatrician has all sorts of good advice on getting the little one to cooperate with us a bit more than he was. Either that or he has learned to adjust to us as much as we've learned to adjust to him.

The books may be good for straight medical advice, but beyond that frankly they're paperweights.

Some things never change. One of our family stories is that when my mom was tiny, she was crying and Gram leafing frantically through a baby-book. As the tale goes, my great-grandmother, who lived with them said "Tochterle. (daughter) Put down the book and pick up the baby!" That may have been 75 years ago, but while the books change, babies don't.

Sleep deprivation is in the new-parent contract, and every baby I've ever known has read the fine print. :)

Even now with Isobeal at 14 months old, she still prefers to sleep on one of us, Matthew being the preferred pillow. Lately she alternates with waking up at 2 a.m. or 4:30 a.m. and will not go back to sleep at the earlier hour without us as pillows. At the 4:30 hour I usually give her her morning milk bottle and she goes to sleep for a few more hours, but it is usually in our bed next to us. This makes for a crowded bed when Seamus comes crawling into the room around 6 a.m. to snuggle for a couple of hours.

My point? You are not alone. It does get easier and they eventually do end up sleeping longer in their own beds for longer periods of time, but so far for us I don't remember the last night of uninterrupted sleep I got. It had to bed over 3 years ago (including the pregnancies).

Good luck and know that you have friends that feel your pain and pleasure for that matter (It is awfully nice to be trapped under a sleeping baby sometimes. You have an excuse not to move).

Kids and sleeping: from personal experience, the situation is that the Kid will (a) contort itself in all sorts of ways that you couldn't imagine as comfortable, and (b) wants to Sleep in a Secure Manner. I mean, from the Kid's POV, they've always slept with someone in very close quarters, so why not now?

Note to add: Mere turns 7 tomorrow. Guess who crawled in with us last night.

In regard to point A.... oh my god Yes! We have a collection of photos of the bizarre positions Alex would get into while he slept. We were convinced we had a new Monty Python sketch... "The Ministry of Silly Sleeps"

So, now that you've gotten Uxtheme.dll beaten into (some semblance of) submission, are you ready for the release of Vista tomorrow?

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So, now that you've gotten Uxtheme.dll beaten into (some semblance of) submission, are you ready for the release of Vista tomorrow? <evil grin. No, it's a grimace>

BTW, what's Uxtheme.dll?

My own little sweetlings are just too little to actually sleep with me. They can play in your bed with you there, they can fall asleep on your shoulder as you sit on the couch, but if you and your ratties fall asleep in the same bed, you might roll over and squish them mortally.

Uxtheme.dll is an operating system DLL that supports the user-interface themes that Windows XP provides.

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On the baby front...

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I feel your pain...

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Up to the hips in software alligators...

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