From the monthly archives:

August 2007

nursing problems I never thought we’d have…

August 29, 2007

Last night Serena and I were fast asleep when she started to fuss and wiggle a bit. Neither of us was fully awakened, she was just beginning to make little fuss noises and I surfaced just enough to pull her close and offer her a nipple. But she just refused to latch on. I tried [...]

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Pop! go my kid’s names

August 29, 2007

I swear that I did not name my kids after Joss Whedon characters. Despite the fact that their names, translated into English, would be River and Serenity, despite the fact that Rio’s middle name is Willow, they are really really not named in some bizarre tribute to one of my favorite geeky writers. Just like [...]

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Pants problems I never thought we’d have…

August 28, 2007

Walking down the hill toward the main beach at Walden Pond, with Rio, Serena and . Rio is a few steps ahead of us. There is no lead in to this conversation; what could possibly lead one to say… Rio: Mama, did you know dinosaurs were pulling my pants down? Me: no. Rio: yes. They [...]

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August 21, 2007

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Six weeks – ideas

August 21, 2007

I have a quiet moment now to try to type out those ideas (I will not bother to call them goals) about things I’d like to do with the rest of this calendar year. – establish a regular exercise routine – swimming, working out, yoga, etc. – get Rio involved in swim classes and preschool [...]

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six weeks

August 20, 2007

Serena is six weeks old today. The past six weeks have been a mostly delightful blur of her beautiful face, her amazing smile, her new baby smell and funny way of breathing and the way she bunches her hands under her chin like a tiny Thinker. I thought I would make a post about ideas [...]

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Magical potty training

August 20, 2007

A few weeks before Serena was born, Rio mysteriously began peeing in her bed at night, after being dry through the night for most of a year. We have tried everything we could think of to discourage this, which has been pretty much nothing because how do you tell someone not to do something IN [...]

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The horror

August 20, 2007

I apparently have a habit of teasing the baby about her crying, which is I think understandable since babies cry like it is the end of the world when it is simply the end of a dry diaper. So I’m sure it was my doing that the other day when Serena started to cry and [...]

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Note to self: Do Not Attempt Battle of Wills with Baby

August 11, 2007

10:00 p.m. – I lay down in bed with my sleeping baby, intending to cuddle up and go to sleep after a nice but draining family dinner and a long walk. She’d been fussy for several hours while we were at the restaurant, and I figured we could both use the rest. 10:01 p.m. – [...]