Okay, now this is a baby I really don’t know. He slept through our first mother’s group meeting this morning (this is not my mini-group-of-mom-friends that I’ve mentioned in the past, but a real, facilitated, large circle of women and…
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day 57 of the occupation
Our captor is wearing us down. But just as we were seriously considering giving up, he smiled at us. Really smiled. The face-splitting, eye-squinting grin. And he wasn’t even on the changing table when it happened! Hooray! Note: I find…
to ec or not to ec
On Friday, I held my boy in the “cradle hold” over the toilet and he peed into it. Twice. Well, to be totally honest, the second time it happened I was watching his face (and he doesn’t really know how…
wednesday’s child went shopping
And Thursday’s child went to yoga and then out a-visiting friends. Who is this new and improved baby? Is it the fact that I’ve stopped eating dairy? Or is it a developmental leap he’s made? Or both? (I am too…
same day, new baby
It’s completely amazing. He’s making eye contact. He’s smiling. He’s mellow. We took a bath. He loved it. He slept in the Moby for hours, didn’t cry when I put him in the bucket and took him to the cranial-sacral…
the grandparents (part trois) take visiting to the next level – and many other thoughts because the baby is sleeping
Yesterday was day three of the third set of grandparents a-visiting. Fortunately, Jonah was on fairly good behavior, because Scott was at work, I needed to get out for an extended pilates and bodywork session, and the GP’s agreed to…
it’s all happening on the changing table
This morning Jonah gave his opinion on how we might achieve world peace. At least I think that’s what all those coos and gurgles meant. I told him his theories were quite sound. And he smiled.
borderline
Today’s baby is fairly calm, and currently in the midst of a three-hour-plus nap. Last night was horrendous. So it goes. In a play I saw once about mental illness, one of the characters described borderline personality disorder this way:…