A new baby!!

No, Leina is not pregnant. In fact, she's not even trying to conceive. She adopted! Leina has adopted a 9-month old boy for three weeks. He is her friend's son, a friend whom this biographer had never heard of previously. And Leina is babysitting three times a week until her friend's regular babysitter is back from vacation. Just afternoons, right? Nope, Leina has this little boy (his name is Dirk) from 8:30 in the morning until 6:00 at night.

Today was her first day with young Dirk, and he was a model baby. Meaning he cried for about three hours straight (especially loud when Leina dropped him and even louder when she forgot him at the grocery store), constantly needed changing and then smiled at her at the end of the day and melted her heart.

So Leina is tired today and not returning phone calls. She did, however, find the time to give someone directions to Sutter Street and sweep her front yard, where she and angie had just planted pansies.

She also impersonated a Japanese mother and crashed a serious Japanese-American mother playdate that she had read about in the Japantown Gazette. Because everyone knows that Leina is not Japanese. However, she met some nice women there and Dirk wasn't too crazy.