Category: ec

i think it means we’re teaching him self esteem

Jonah is figuring out some of his toys on a new level. Whereas many items were deemed merely good for chewing or banging on or with, now he’s starting to get how the shapes go into the matching holes on…

the wave

The boy says “Hi” all the time now. He says it with a little inflection. And a smile. Sometimes he sounds southern. Always he sounds like he’s flirting, a touch mischievous. He says it to women pretty much wherever we…

excrement, effluvia, monkey, toes

Poop. Glorious poop! Solid food poop. How I adore thee. So far, anyway. Believe it or not, we’ve “caught” the poop. In the sink. Easy enough to do since the boy makes a special “I’m about to POOP!” grunting sound.…

shhhhhh… he’s napping

Well, the let’s sit up and nurse in the night experiment revealed that in fact, yes, I get more sleep if I don’t do that. Nap nursing, here I come back. Not only can the boy nurse on one boob…

new baby, rev. 3?

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…

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…