Sometimes your kids know exactly what you need, even more than you do. One day, a couple months ago, Anna and I were having one of the regular disputes over naps (I think she should take one, she doesn’t) and I was getting really frustrated and tired. I was about 8 months pregnant at the [...]
She’s on to us.
We think we’re doing some sort of game, but she knows it’s a didactic exercise, and she’s not going to play by the boring rules.
I’m pointing at something which has a series of colors—you know, red, orange, yellow, green, etc.—and I ask her what colors there are. She [...]
1!
2!
3!
4!
5!
8!
9!
10!
14!
5!
Are you sure that’s right, Anna? ;)
Yesterday, in the midst of a mundane lunchtime, my daughter exhibited a beatiful moment of personal creativity that inspired me to keep the TV off so that her brain can be on. She’s done lots of imagining playthings, from the baby hippos she finds in various locations and picks up and carries, to taking her [...]
Everyone talks about the “terrible twos” and I do understand why this developmental period is hard for many parents. I remember when my friend Leah’s daughter Sophie was upset about something, I said, “It is hard to be 2” and her mom replied “It is hard to be the mom of a 2 year old.” [...]
Anna attended her first peace vigil – we joined a few hundred people on the fourth anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq at Boulder’s courthouse lawn. We sang songs, lit candles, and organizers read letters [...]
Apparently, I used to eat my dog’s food when I was about this age. Anna hasn’t gone so far as to eat the cat’s food, but when I was feeding scraps of turkey (as I cleaned the carcass) to [...]
Cute things kids say…
In which Anna pulls herself to standing without assistance! (but not crawling yet..)
We’ve got more pictures of Anna up on the site. It’s been a while, in large part because I (not Erika, I) was agonizing over buying a digital camera. Now that we have one, we’re going crazy with it, of course. This album shows lots of shots of Anna in the last couple of weeks, [...]
Shoot, at the moment I can’t remember who gave them to us, but suddenly a baby shower gift is starting to shine. We put on this pair of socks, or booties, or well, FOOTWEAR that is brightly striped and has a little round blue head on one foot and a little round red head on [...]
She just did it! This is the first time that Anna rolled all the way over on the bed, from the face-down position I’ve been putting her in to encourage her crawling, ALL THE WAY ONTO HER BACK!
Yay :)
This is not the same as writing in a journal, which I used to do sometimes when I would wake up in the middle of the night. I’d write down my dreams, and there was/is something so personal, alive, cozy about writing that way. At the same time, though, it’s always so hidden away, and [...]
It’s a little song I made up this morning while carrying Anna. It goes like this:
Pumpkin Pie Patootie,
Pumpkin Pie Patootie,
Pumpkin Pie Patootie,
Boop boop boop!
(repeat)
Well, that’s my part. Anna’s was this:
Gnaw on daddy’s thumb, drool!
(repeat)
Okay, it probably won’t win any awards…
Finally managed to get photos up from a couple of weekends ago—you may wish to catch Anna at her debut, or see shots from Easter at my dad’s house. Then again, you may not. That’s okay too.
It’s been an eventful day for 4 out of 5 residents of 929 LaFarge. Sammie had a couple of walks and a whole lot of nothing in between, but the rest of us had a handful. Okay, I don’t really know that Sam didn’t bay at passing neighbors for hours, but I have a hunch.
But [...]
Or,
Why you give baby a bath after she’s pooped in her diaper
Warning: possibly objectionable reading ahead. If you’re not sure, re-read the subhead above to see if you think you want to read on…
It’s Sunday! And about time we gave Anna a bath. It’s been a week, and it seems like we should clean out [...]
I’ve really got to paint over that mural in our living room.
In which daddy gets some quality snuggle time with The Baby.
Yesterday morning a new life joined our world. And we couldn’t be happier.