I am totally smitten with my boy. Here we are ending 2010 and he's barely 2 years old and yet he is such a powerful force, such a vibrant creature, such a capable, curious, beautiful little dude ( Read more... )

Keaton's hands are healing. We've unbandaged the right hand, permanently. The left is still blistered but he let me wash it yesterday and doesn't scream as much when we change the bandage. Progress. Thank god for sesamestreet.org. Yeah, that's right, after he got burned I changed my anti-TV stance. Anything that gives him a little pleasure and ( Read more... )

I am of two minds. I walk around like this, with my two minds, and it's okay ( Read more... )

I am so little compared to such a big thing as this. The love radiating from everywhere, exploding from everywhere, hitting me and hitting us, is not scary. I stand humbled in the presence of so many friends and such support and I wonder how I can possibly be a deserving recipient of such kindness. The baby, I feel, does deserve it but even for ( Read more... )

"Gio, Mom and Ali. That's it for the labor part," I told Meg when she asked who we plan on having at the birth. "And me," she replied. I'm surprised but apparently she does want to be there and I think that'll be nice. She's really good in serious situations. But now I have 4 people. Too many? In my head I imagine laboring in the birthing pool ( Read more... )

It was a wall-to-wall weekend. It was a 6am-1am, full blast, running around kind of weekend. I have dark circles under my eyes and I feel like Ali and I have been through war together. It was fun, but it was constant fun and that was exhausting even before I had a creature growing in my belly. I understand the term "carry" now. My stomach is ( Read more... )

I often think it would be nice to be other than I am. Wouldn't it be neat just to feel that? To feel what it's like to be something other than you are? Of course it can never happen because as soon as you feel it, you are being it, and then it becomes you so it's not feeling something other-than-you ( Read more... )