the awful truth

here are some pictures of me with my niece, lucy, when i was up in michigan last weekend for a little 6 months-old celebration. i thought about reversing the order of the pictures so it looked like i soothed her crying instead of the other way around. in actuality, she was fine for about 30 seconds, then inexplicably burst into tears. she was sleepy and fussy, so i blame it on that and not that i had just told her all about how the pressure to be thin will destroy her self-esteem over time and she'll never feel as comfortable in a bikini as she did earlier that day...