From the monthly archives:

May 2005

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 [...]