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From the monthly archives:

May 2007

Ducklings!

May 29, 2007

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Swimming!

May 25, 2007

We went to the YMCA tonight and got Rio her very own Y membership as a birthday gift, so she can swim whenever she wants. And then we went swimming! She was incredible. This was maybe the fifth time she’s ever been in deep (like, deeper than the bathtub) water, and the third time in [...]

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Who is this flower? What is the work of this god?

May 24, 2007

Rio is three years old today!

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Fluting!

May 21, 2007

Rio has taught herself to whistle! She calls it fluting. She amazes me.

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rio vs. the table

May 21, 2007

I just walked into the playroom to see Rio screaming in frustration and pushing her little plastic vanity, courtesy of . She shouted “No! No!” and knocked the thing over. Once it had been upended, she approached the wreckage and said, “Are you going to be nice to me table? You are? Ok. I’m sorry.” [...]

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Bob the Builder crisis

May 18, 2007

There is a children’s cartoon called Bob The Builder. It’s an insipid, sexist British program about anthropomorphized construction vehicles, a guy named Bob, and the blonde-blue-eyed woman (named Wendy, no less) who brings him cookies while he works on his building projects. Rio loves it. Someone gave us a couple of board books featuring the [...]

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Something I have always appreciated about my mother

May 14, 2007

She has got my back. Every time, without question, without fail. I spent the day with my mom and Rio yesterday. We went to Salem for lunch and had our portraits taken by a guy who specializes in pregnant belly shots. The portrait session was a mixed experience; Rio was not into it, the guy [...]

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Meeting Dr. Patriarchy

May 5, 2007

So I met with Dr. Saliman, the medical director of the Cambridge Birth Center, yesterday morning. I should say that so far in this process, while I’ve been unhappy about their policies regarding mental health and even more disturbed by their notification process for those policies, I’ve been pleased at how I’ve been treated by [...]

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Cute of the day

May 4, 2007

When I arrived to pick Rio up from her playgroup this morning, there was a lumpy bulge under her dress. “Are you pregnant?” I joked. “Yes! I have my baby in my belly,” she replied, then lifted her dress so I could see that, in fact, the bulge under her dress was a baby doll, [...]

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