From the yearly archives:

2005

breast noses

December 29, 2005

for some reason this just reminded me of this: Last night, I was in the tub with Rio and she suddenly, excitedly, pointed at my nipple and said, “Nose!”, then pointed at her own nose. “Where is my nose?” I asked gently, and she pointed at my nose. “Do you think my breasts have noses?” [...]

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today’s weird parenting moment

September 25, 2005

featuring, My Mom. She’s convinced that Rio’s speech delays are the result of some significant hearing loss she’s experienced over the course of the summer. Rio did have a very serious ear-infection while we were in Argentina, and my mother says it’s possible she may still have fluid build-up in her ears damaging her ability [...]

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breastmilk blues

August 20, 2005

So I’ve enrolled Rio in daycare. We visited the center four times, and talked at great length about all kinds of things. Nursing was one of these things. During my four earlier visits to the center, I sat in the comfy rocker in the nice, well-equipped living room and nursed my baby. We talked about [...]

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rio says “cat”

June 1, 2005

Rio calls the cats “Kit-ty” universally, it’s one of her most reliable words. She also calls dogs “Kit-ty”, but that’s to be expected. She often competes with the “kit-ties” for food, and we always say, “No, Rio, that’s the cat’s food. Cat food is not for babies.” or something like that. Just now she came [...]

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Rio’s birthday

May 24, 2005

I just came downstairs from nursing Rio for the first time on the anniversary of her birth. A year ago right now I was in labor with her in the back bedroom here, kneeling on the bed and pulling the sash M had hung over the rafters while he hugged me from behind and helped [...]

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Music baby

May 23, 2005

Rio is sitting on the floor next to me, playing her little toy piano with one hand, while she holds a recorder to her mouth and blows through it with the other.

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her own theme music

May 20, 2005

Rio loves to dance to music. She loves it so much that she can’t wait for me to turn the stereo on anymore. She’s written her own song. It goes, “Hey-da, hey-da, hey-da. (pause) Hey-da, hay-da, hey-da…” There’s a little drumbeat she does with it. The emphasis (and when she drums, the drumming) is always [...]

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more Rio cuteness

May 2, 2005

Rio vs. beer: We’re at the dinner table eating some spicy Mexican food when I happened to get a very spicy bite that madde me cough, and I quickly downed a sip of beer to cool my throat. Rio hadn’t noticed the bottle on the table, but when I picked it up her eyes got [...]

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baby kisses

May 2, 2005

a) since she was small (which is, i know, on odd thing to say about a person who currently wighs in at just over 20lbs and measures a bit over two feet tall, but you get the idea) Rio has been very interested in kissing. She gets excited and laughs and squeals and more recently [...]

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parenting a preverbal toddler….

April 29, 2005

is just like dating a teenage boy, only without the mediocre-but-frequent sex. She can’t tell me what she wants because she simply doesn’t have the words for it, so instead she assumes I’ll just know, and when I fail to give her what she wants, she throws herself on the floor and cries. Also, she [...]