He stood up in the bathtub and, dripping arms outstretched, spoke the five words I thought I'd never hear him use in the same sentence: "Mama, put me to bed ( Read more... )

Thaniel’s kisses are very expensive; he hasn’t offered me one in days. Which is why I didn’t realize what he was doing at bedtime tonight. As we rocked in the dark, he amused himself by smashing his face into mine as if to meld our features into one: his nose into my eye, his eye into the bridge of my nose, brow-to-brow, experimentally giggling ( Read more... )

"Choo-choo!" he cried excitedly from the backseat. "Din-din-din-din-din-din-din. Woo, wooooooo!" And then the train appeared, a flash of bright red engine between the buildings a block away. The tracks angled away from our position, and though I tried to point it out, we soon lost sight of it as it curved behind the treeline ( Read more... )

I finished the shorts y'all gave me ideas for the other day.


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One of my goals for today's follow-up with the LC (lactation consultant) was for Nathaniel to learn to take a bottle. I do love nursing my baby, but five weeks after a painful start (due to his tongue-tie) I'm wanting to take care of my own basic human needs (eat, nap, shower) without interruption once in a while. So when he hadn't taken the ( Read more... )

Today I got an hour and fifteen minutes to myself. In that time I finished a rag quilt, mended a diaper cover, started two loads of laundry and emptied the dishwasher. My LC says I should be taking a nap instead! But it felt especially good to get the sewing done.

Here's the rag quilt, my first one:

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Nathaniel was four weeks old yesterday. And as Scott likes to point out when he's crying, we can't figure out what he needs, and what worked yesterday isn't working today, he is a different baby every day!

Last Friday for the first time he looked at me. Until then he always appeared to look through me or off into space with an expression of ( Read more... )

This morning I handed an inexplicably sreaming baby off to Scott so I could take a bathroom break. When I came back, I found this:

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