Category: Baby
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Little “Chee Chee”, as everyone (except myself) calls her, is five months old now. Though she’s been doing it for two weeks, I still am shocked every time I see her sitting up. It’s a different baby there, surrounded by pillows, looking at me horizontally. Sitting up, she looks even more like Paulie. I think…
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Transcript of the conversation in the bedroom this morning: Is that my night bra? I’ve been looking for this! Night bra? Crazy woman and your night bra. You just imagine, if you had to nurse you’d want a night bra too. I’ve handled this breastfeeding bullshit pretty well! *hack hack hack* Ruby, are you still…
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Why do people more frequently say a house is too small? I have yet to be advised that a house is too big, even when it’s a 2300 sq ft beast ( not counting basement and garage). That is twice what we need—twice the renovation cost, twice the heating and cooling, twice the maintenance, twice…
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Baby Vivienne can’t appreciate it yet, but her mom loves the crap out of Christmas. I can’t wait until she understands leaving her shoes out for St. Nick, leaving cookies for Santa Claus and leaving mom and dad asleep on Christmas morning. I love cookies, Yule logs, putting another log on the fire, singing carols…
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I returned to work, only part-time for the month of December, yesterday. Everyone, and by everyone I mean everyone, including my dental hygienist, has asked “How are you?”, “Are you ok?”, “How are you handling it?”. Imagine the accompanying head tilt and sympathetic expression. I have not entered my child into a gulag. I have…
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Sleepy baby. Sleeping on the diaper changing pad. A fancy automatic swinging bassinet, a co-sleeper bed, a folding travel baby bed, a nordic designer-y bouncy chair and a pack ‘n play all available to her and what’s her favorite? The five dollar foam changing pad.
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There have been some nights when I thought I’d lose it as the Baby screamed for hour three…but we’ve gotten through that phase and learned how to calm her. What I do seem to be losing is my memory. Me, wandering around perplexed: “Somewhere in this house is a bag of breast milk”. Paul: “I…
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Paulie took a few candid shots of his sleeping family this morning. Ruby was actually awake, on baby-watching duty. I was sound asleep…for 6 hours straight! Little Miss Viv is giving us a solid 5 to 6 hours each night for a few nights in a row now. Keeping my fingers crossed that she keeps…
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How can such a wee little baby need such a big vehicle? Oh, right…it’s all the supplies that need the extra space! (We had the new station wagon for less than 12 hours before Mom insisted on a trip to Target as our first outing).
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Dear Darling Daughter, Thank you. You have given me the greatest gift a mother could ask for. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. No other achievement, no award nor perfect grades could compare. I will be forever proud of you, and eternally grateful to you for… sleeping through the night! Love, Your grateful…
girl at large 