From the yearly archives:

2004

It’s 2:47 AM. Do you know where your children are?

December 27, 2004

Mine is sitting on the floor beside me. She’s just pulled the French-English dictionary off the bookcase and is busy tearing the front pages out and trying to eat them, having failed in her first approach, which was to swallow it whole. I’m not sure this is what is meant by learning languages via osmosis, [...]

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all I want for Solstice is my two front teeth!

December 18, 2004

So she can’t whistle, but both of Rio’s top front teeth popped this afternoon!

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separation anxiety

December 3, 2004

I’m registered for a workshop this weekend that’s really an adult kind of space. The teacher has reluctantly agreed to try having Rio there, with the caveat that I may simply have to leave. I’ve never been apart from her, and I feel like I’ve made a commitment to her to keep her with me [...]

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Sleep is for the single

November 24, 2004

Normally, I’m not terribly precious about the baby’s sleep. At least, not by the new momma standards I’m used to (I don’t anticipate ever being able to give her a bath in her sleep,

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baby sleep, or lack thereof

November 21, 2004

Rio has stopped sleeping. She’ll sleep for a few minutes at a time during the day, and a maximum of three hours at a stretch at night, and then she’s UP. It’s as if she’s so excited to BE and DO that she can no longer rest. I don’t know what to make of that. [...]

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the baby…

November 19, 2004

has begun kneeling. Which is kind of impressive really, but I’m not sure where she’s going with it. Toward standing, I guess? She’s also started trying to pull herself up on things, and taking steps when I support her in a standing pose. Fancy baby. She is not writing my novel yet though. And neither [...]

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Another one for the record books

November 11, 2004

Rio is reading Anna Karenina all by herself!!!! (1) And she’s sitting up all on her own.(2) (1)The above sentence contains a typo. The word ‘reading’ should be replaced with the word ‘eating’. Thank you. (2) No, really, she’s been practicing for weeks, and she keeps rolling backward and onto her head, but yesterday she [...]

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want vs. need

November 11, 2004

This morning Rio woke up and started happily crawling toward the sleeping cats who were napping in bed with us. I picked her up gently, and moved her several feet away, facing the opposite direction. She immediately began to howl. Thinking she was hurt, I picked her up and cuddled her. As soon as the [...]

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no really. three hours.

November 10, 2004

At midnight, in the midst of an IM conversation and a last ditch effort to finish some work for the porn folks, I was called away by the babe, who wanted my attention for a nursing project. I dozed off in the midst of this project and woke up three hours later to find her [...]

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