Archive for the ‘Milestones’ Category

april 1998

I meant to mark the day with a post, but we were in the thick of kitchen remodeling and I haven’t been spending much time at my laptop for the past few weeks. So I am a little bit late on this. But I wanted to commemorate it anyway because I still kind of can’t […]

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baby fat

Audrey is so very plump. Perhaps at the peak of her plumpness, her arms and legs wrapped in deep, soft rolls and creases. She gorges herself on milk and burns very few calories doing her hitched crawl around the room. I observed that the second front incisor has now worked its way through the gum, […]

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on her own

This morning I rose at six and went downstairs to sit in the quiet living room reading a book and drinking coffee. I had the baby monitor tuned to listen to Audrey sleeping, and Brian was working in his office. At about quarter past seven, I heard the bedroom door upstairs opening, and assumed it […]

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milestones

It’s been exactly seven months since Audrey’s birth. She has almost tripled her birth weight, she can sit up, almost crawl, and still doesn’t have any teeth. I have lost thirty-five pounds of pregnancy weight, which I think might be all my baby weight as I was a little overweight to begin with, and if […]

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three

Oh and this sweet baby is three weeks old today.

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melting

I lay in bed with Freya early this morning, nursing her back to sleep in the dark. She had an arm and a leg thrown across me as usual. My plan was to delatch her and then go down and pour my cup of coffee. It was almost 7. Still asleep, she delatched herself. “I […]

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music class

Summer’s nearly over. But I love fall, a REAL fall, with colored leaves and crisp air and a few sunny days. Sweaters, boots, coats, scarves, and no more sunscreen (except on the face). Plus it means that Freya’s second birthday will soon be here. I look forward to her third year, when she will begin […]

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goodnight milk

Decided to work on night weaning with earnest last night. Freya is almost 22 months old and I know she is nursing at night now out of habit rather than need. She can still nurse during the day of course, but we need to start focusing on other ways of getting back to sleep, which […]

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personal time

Last weekend, my good friend Christina offered to take Freya for three hours to play at her house with her son, Evan. The big day arrived yesterday, and at nine o’clock I dropped my daughter off for her morning of fun. The first thing I did was to drive to the local high school track. […]

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a month later

Hi, I know, I need to get it together and update more frequently blah blah blah. I’ve been kinda busy. Still not terribly summery here, unless you like your summers SF-style, cool and cloudy every morning and partly sunny in the afternoon. This seems like the worst summer yet since we’ve moved here, and I […]

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