Archive for the 'milestones' Category
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if i knew you were turning one, i’d've baked two cakes
I’ve never baked a cake before. My husband doesn’t eat desserts or sugary things. The kid barely knows what cake is. But for some reason, I decided I wanted to bake, rather than buy, a cake for his birthday.
Or rather two cakes, since he’s having two birthday parties.
Birthday party the first is for a few […]
Posted by calm mama on Friday, November 21st, 2008 at 11:09 pm in milestones, recipes | 1 Comment »
he said “cow”
He woke up this morning, did a little nursing, looked me in the eye and said, “Cow.” Not accusing me of being one, just letting me know he knows the word. He said it several more times. Announcements, “Cow… cow.”
Scott ran a little test, showing the boy pictures of cows and then pictures of cats. […]
Posted by calm mama on Friday, November 21st, 2008 at 10:31 pm in milestones, baby baby baby | comments »
he said “da”
Today, while I was feeding the boy his dinner in the high chair in the kitchen, I called Scott on speakerphone, to check and see how close he was to home.
That’s pretty much a nightly ritual. One or the other of us calls — Are you on the bus? I’m still on the bridge. I’ll […]
Posted by calm mama on Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 at 11:21 pm in milestones, travel, sleep, baby baby baby | 6 Comments »
sleep is the word
Last night he cried for 20 minutes, and slept straight through till 6:30 a.m.
Color us amazed. Scott had so much energy today — he thought it was nerves and then realized it was just that he hasn’t had enough sleep in so long, he’d forgotten what it felt like.
The naps seem to still be MIA. […]
Posted by calm mama on Sunday, November 9th, 2008 at 9:03 pm in milestones, sleep | 6 Comments »
the new joys of jumping and chatting
File under: oops.
This morning, as Jonah was squirming, fighting, crying while I tried to put him in his jumperoo — just so I wouldn’t have to follow him up the stairs over and over for the next 20 minutes, I had an idea.
With one foot, while wrestling wriggling baby, I kicked a squishy foam mat […]
Posted by calm mama on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 at 8:41 am in milestones, baby baby baby, recommendations | 3 Comments »
“We” are family
Bridezillas, John Edwards’ Crossing Over, and me.
I hinted at this a little while back, and now, here it is…
My new mommy blogging gig went live today at WeTV.com:
http://www.wetv.com/blogs/mama-drama/index.html
http://www.wetv.com/moms/index.html
I’ll still be here, most days. Twice a week I’ll be over there, with one “personal” post, and one post where I get to talk about stuff […]
Posted by calm mama on Monday, October 27th, 2008 at 2:18 pm in milestones, bloggy love, baby baby baby | 5 Comments »
panic parenting
So, I’m reading more about this peaceful parenting thing — and you know how things sometimes get mixed up in your head in a really Freudian way? I keep calling it perfection parenting which isn’t exactly helpful as far as a mental image, for me — and I go back into my own archives this […]
Posted by calm mama on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at 10:21 am in milestones, sleep, baby baby baby, don't panic | 11 Comments »
drool me a river
Man, this fluid is… flu-id!
The boy’s top two teeth, center, have poked through, the two flanking are sliding into position, and his shirts are soaked through.
I decided a long time ago to pretend it’s my saliva anyway, and therefore not gross. I mean, given where he’d been, once upon a time, inside me in a […]
Posted by calm mama on Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 at 9:28 pm in milestones, baby baby baby | 7 Comments »
farm, stairs, no-ooo-oo
Overdue report from the Hoes Down Festival:
There were fiddling kids:
Old timey blacksmiths:
Cows:
And best of all, the petting zoo:
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Milestone report: Over the last three days, Jonah has begun climbing stairs. And so I’ve joined that long lineage of parents hunched down behind baby butts with hands out to spot as the little ones grunt, […]
Posted by calm mama on Sunday, October 12th, 2008 at 4:03 pm in milestones, back to the land, baby pics, baby baby baby | 5 Comments »
blogging the scraps
Bits and tidbits floating around in my head on mental scraps of paper.
In the last week, Jonah has added a whole new expressive sound to his repertoire:
“Ohh-oh?”
He says it in a musical down-up melody. Usually when he’s dropped something. How adorable is that? SO adorable.
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Last night I tried to give him a bottle […]